Life is like a stone mill. It will grind you down, or it will polish you up.
Anonymous
No matter what you do, some people will criticize you, and if you are entirely sure that you would not be ashamed to explain your action to someone whom you loved and who loved you, and you are satisfied in your own mind that you are doing right, then you need not worry about criticism nor need you ever explain what you do.
Eleanor Roosevelt
About the only value the story of my life may have is to show that one can, even without any particular gifts, overcome obstacles that seem insurmountable if one is willing to face the fact that they must be overcome; that, in spite of timidity and fear, in spite of a lack of special talents, one can find a way to live widely and fully.
Eleanor Roosevelt
The lessons [I] learned were those of adaptability and adjustment and finally of self-reliance and developing into an individual as every human being must.
Eleanor Roosevelt
I know that in my own case my friends are responsible for much that I have become and without them there are many things which would have remained closed books to me.
Eleanor Roosevelt
If you prepare yourself at every point as well as you can, with whatever means you may have, however meager they may seem, you will be able to grasp opportunity for broader experience when it appears. Without preparation you cannot do it. The fatal thing is rejection. Life was meant to be lived, curiosity must be kept alive. One must never, for whatever reason, turn his back on life.
Eleanor Roosevelt
The only way to be sure of being loved is to be worthy of love.
Anonymous
If we choose to see obstacles in our path as barriers, we stop trying. However, if we choose to see the obstacles as hurdles, we can leap over them. Successful people don't have fewer problems. They have determined that nothing will stop them from going forward. Whatever direction we choose, if we realize that every hurdle we jump
strengthens and prepares us for the next one, we are already on the way
to success.
Eleanor Roosevelt (?)
