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Inspiration September 14, 2017
"It takes as much energy to wish as it does to plan."
Eleanor Roosevelt was First Lady to President Franklin Roosevelt, but she was more than just a strong woman behind the man.
Refusing to stay behind the scenes, Eleanor was the first to revolutionize the role of the First Lady. She gave press conferences and stood up for human rights, children’s causes and women’s issues. She didn’t have her own power, so she created it for herself.
With all her influence, the First Lady was an inspiration to all women.
So, we gathered the best Eleanor Roosevelt quotes that remind us that women are unbreakable.
“With the new day comes new strength and new thoughts.”
“You gain strength, courage, and confidence by every experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face. You are able to say to yourself, ‘I lived through this horror. I can take the next thing that comes along.'”
“The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams.”
“Great minds discuss ideas; average minds discuss events; small minds discuss people.”
“You must do the things you think you cannot do.”
“In the long run, we shape our lives, and we shape ourselves. The process never ends until we die. And the choices we make are ultimately our own responsibility.”
“Happiness is not a goal; it is a by-product.”
“One’s philosophy is not best expressed in words; it is expressed in the choices one makes… and the choices we make are ultimately our responsibility.”
“It is not fair to ask of others what you are not willing to do yourself.”
“No one can make you feel inferior without your consent.”
“I think, at a child’s birth, if a mother could ask a fairy godmother to endow it with the most useful gift, that gift should be curiosity.”
“People grow through experience if they meet life honestly and courageously. This is how character is built.”
“Since you get more joy out of giving joy to others, you should put a good deal of thought into the happiness that you are able to give.”
“It takes as much energy to wish as it does to plan.”
“Do what you feel in your heart to be right- for you’ll be criticized anyway. You’ll be damned if you do, and damned if you don’t.”
“Life must be lived and curiosity kept alive. One must never, for whatever reason, turn his back on life.”
“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.”
“What you don’t do can be a destructive force.”
“Freedom makes a huge requirement of every human being. With freedom comes responsibility. For the person who is unwilling to grow up, the person who does not want to carry his own weight, this is a frightening prospect.”
With topics such as freedom and aging, Roosevelt’s lessons stay true to this day. Eleanor Roosevelt exemplified the idea that women don’t have to stay behind the scenes. As an advocator for the rights of all, she taught the world that women are stronger and smarter than the stereotypes placed on them.
