Eleanor Roosevelt Quotes

How one can live without being able to judge oneself, criticize what one has accomplished, and still enjoy what one does, is unimaginable to me.

The most important person on this earth is you. What are you doing to help the most important person in this world: you? To live right, you have to exercise, have goals and challenges.

If you have nothing to do, look at yourself and see if there isn't something close at hand that you can improve. It may make you wealthy, although it is more likely it will make you happy.

I am so leading the life that I want and wanted and dreamed of as a kid. I'm trying very hard not to abuse it or take advantage of it.

I believe happiness is a chemical imbalance - it's a silly thing to strife for. But satisfaction - if you seek satisfaction, you can succeed. Satisfaction is knowing that you're doing the best that you can do; you're living your life to the fullest.

But now that I've matured, I've realized that - at the end of the day - what's really important is the work, not what people think of me.

Today, I'm very happy about myself, because I realized my dreams. I learned how to understand what people want.

I'm generally a very happy guy because I'm doing what I want. I'm willing to tell you that there are people who are much better than I am in writing. I don't have to be the fastest gun in the West.

If you try to be better every day, more miracles happen in your life.

Why waste time proving over and over how great you are, when you could be getting better?

My time is far too valuable for me to spend any of it trying to improve myself.

We cannot give what we do not have: We cannot bring peace to the world if we ourselves are not peaceful. We cannot bring love to the world if we ourselves are not loving. Our true gift to ourselves and others lies not in what we have but in who we are.

Study your strengths; then decide how hard you want to work

My definition of success? Being the kind of woman that I would want to have as a friend.

Doing your best, you are going to live your life intensely. You are going to be productive, you are going to be good to yourself, because you will be giving yourself to your family, to your community, to everything. But it is the action that is going to make you feel intensely happy. When you always do your best, you take action.

Your success and happiness start with you.

A man who is not a good friend to himself cannot be so to any one else.

I want, by understanding myself, to understand others. I want to be all that I am capable of becoming.... This all sounds very strenuous and serious. But now that I have wrestled with it, it's no longer so. I feel happy- deep down. All is well.

Try to be the best version of yourself.

I can only control myself, my actions, my work ethic, and my attitude.

To look back where I started from, you can't help but be amazed.

We live in a very mollycoddled society where the slightest bit of discomfort is seen as wrong, but that discomfort is there for a reason. It's supposed to trigger some form of action, some form of change, a realization of a truth - something, and I think the self-help world has you believing that you should be happy all the time.

The purpose of life is to explore one's own life to its fullest, to explore all dimensions.

Obviously when you challenge yourself you learn a lot about yourself, and ultimately you're going to get better in whatever field.

People hold me accountable. Before I would push people away, but that's not a way to be successful.