Criticism ... makes very little dent upon me unless I think there is some real justification and something should be done.

— Eleanor Roosevelt

Do not be afraid of mistakes providing you do not make the same one twice.

— Eleanor Roosevelt

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

Don't call a woman a bitch. Call her an ass-hole. It still gets your point across and it's not sexist.

— Eleanor Roosevelt

Do one thing every day that scares you.

— Eleanor Roosevelt

Do the things that interest you and do them with all your heart. Don't be concerned about whether people are watching you or criticizing you. The chances are that they aren't paying any attention to you. It's your attention to yourself that is so stultifying. But you have to disregard yourself as completely as possible. If you fail the first time then you'll just have to try harder the second time. After all, there's no real reason why you should fail. Just stop thinking about yourself.

— Eleanor Roosevelt

Do what you feel in your heart to be right – for you’ll be criticized anyway.

— Eleanor Roosevelt

Every time you meet a situation though you think at the time it is an impossibility, and you go through the torture of the damned once you have met it and lived through it, you find that forever after you are freer than you were before.

— Eleanor Roosevelt

For it isn't enough to talk about peace. One must believe in it. And it isn't enough to believe in it. One must work at it.

— Eleanor Roosevelt

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.

— Eleanor Roosevelt