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.

— Eleanor Roosevelt

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.

— Eleanor Roosevelt

I once had a rose named after me, and I was very flattered. But I was not pleased to read the description in the catalog: no good in a bed, but fine up against a wall.

— Eleanor Roosevelt

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.

— Eleanor Roosevelt

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.

— Eleanor Roosevelt

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 would be curiosity.

— Eleanor Roosevelt

I think somehow we learn who we really are and then live with that decision.

— Eleanor Roosevelt

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

It is better to light a candle than curse the darkness.

— Eleanor Roosevelt

It is not fair to ask of others what you are not willing to do yourself.

— Eleanor Roosevelt