I believe that anyone can conquer fear by doing the things he fears to do provided he keeps doing them until he gets a record of successful experiences behind him.

— Eleanor Roosevelt

I can not believe that war is the best solution. No one won the last war, and no one will win the next war.

— Eleanor Roosevelt

I could not at any age be content to take my place by the fireside and simply look on. Life was meant to be lived. Curiosity must be kept alive. One must never for whatever reason turn his back on life.

— Eleanor Roosevelt

I feel that the care of libraries and the use of books, and the knowledge of books, is a tremendously vital thing, and that we who deal with books and who love books have a great opportunity to bring about something in this country which is more vital here than anywhere else, because we have the chance to make a democracy that will be a real democracy.

— Eleanor Roosevelt

If life were predictable it would cease to be life, and be without flavor.

— Eleanor Roosevelt

If man is to be liberated to enjoy more leisure, he must also be prepared to enjoy this leisure fully and creatively.

— Eleanor Roosevelt

If we want a free and peaceful world if we want to make the deserts bloom and man grow to greater dignity as a human being-we can do it.

— Eleanor Roosevelt

If you want a world ruled by law and not by force you must build up, from the very grassroots, a respect for law.

— Eleanor Roosevelt

I have never felt that anything really mattered but knowing that you stood for the things in which you believed and had done the very best you could.

— Eleanor Roosevelt

I'm glad I never feel important it does complicate life.

— Eleanor Roosevelt