Quote

Do not stop thinking of life as an adventure. You have no security unless you can live bravely, excitingly, imaginatively unless you can choose a challenge instead of competence.

Eleanor Roosevelt

Change background

T
T
T

Change font

TAGS & TOPICS

Eleanor Roosevelt
Age: 78 †
Born: 1884
Born: October 11
Died: 1962
Died: November 7
Autobiographer
Diplomat
Feminist
Former First Lady Of The United States
Human Rights Activist
Journalist
Peace Activist
Politician
Writer
Manhattan borough
New York City
Anna Eleanor Roosevelt
Anna Eleanor Roosevelt Roosevelt
First Lady of the world
Women
Travel
Live
Unless
Thinking
Choose
Life
Instead
Imaginatively
Security
Bravely
Challenges
Competence
Stop
Adventure
Inspirational
Challenge

More quotes by Eleanor Roosevelt

Image
Most of the work that's done in the world gets done by people who weren't feeling all that well at the time that they did it.
Eleanor Roosevelt
Image
what we need in the world is manners ... I think that if, instead of preaching brotherly love, we preached good manners, we might get a little further. It sounds less righteous and more practical.
Eleanor Roosevelt
Image
a society in which there is widespread economic insecurity can turn freedom into a barren and vapid right for millions of people.
Eleanor Roosevelt
Image
Never be bored, and you will never be boring.
Eleanor Roosevelt
Image
If we fail to meet our problems here, no one else in the world will do so. If we fail, the heart goes out of progressives throughout the world.
Eleanor Roosevelt
Image
It is a brave thing to have courage to be an individual it is also, perhaps, a lonely thing. But it is better than not being an individual, which is to be nobody at all.
Eleanor Roosevelt
Image
I believe that anyone can conquer fear by doing the things he fears to do.
Eleanor Roosevelt
Image
The labor movement has a great role to play in our country today.
Eleanor Roosevelt
Image
Anger is one letter short of danger.
Eleanor Roosevelt
Image
It is not fair to ask of others what you are not willing to do yourself.
Eleanor Roosevelt
Image
Probably the happiest period in life most frequently is in middle age, when the eager passions of youth are cooled, and the infirmities of age not yet begun as we see that the shadows, which are at morning and evening so large, almost entirely disappear at midday.
Eleanor Roosevelt
Image
Do one thing every day that scares you.
Eleanor Roosevelt
Image
I think that somehow, we learn who we really are and then live with that decision.
Eleanor Roosevelt
Image
Be flexible, but stick to your principles.
Eleanor Roosevelt
Image
I have complete faith in the American people's ability if they know and if they have leadership.
Eleanor Roosevelt
Image
One thing life has taught me: if you are interested, you never have to look for new interests. They come to you. When you are genuinely interested in one thing, it will always lead to something else.
Eleanor Roosevelt
Image
Courage is exhilarating.
Eleanor Roosevelt
Image
It is a rather curious thing to have to divide one's life into personal and official compartments and temporarily put the personal side into its hidden compartment to be taken out again when one's official duties are at an end.
Eleanor Roosevelt
Image
We need our radicals.
Eleanor Roosevelt
Image
It is very difficult to have a free, fair and honest press anywhere in the world. In the first place, as a rule, papers are largely supported by advertising, and that immediately gives the advertisers a certain hold over the medium they use.
Eleanor Roosevelt