Amazing Women & Their Thoughts

*Eleanor Roosevelt: You must do the thing you think you cannot do.

*Georgia O'Keefe: To create one's own world takes courage.

*Eleanor Roosevelt: You gain strength, courage and confidence every time you look fear in the face.

*Harriet Beecher Stowe: When you get into a tight place and everything goes against you, 'til it seems you can't hang on a minute longer, never give up; for that's just the place and time the tide will turn.

*Golda Meir: Nothing in life just happens. You have to have stamina to meet the obstacles and overcome them.

*Eleanor Roosevelt: Nobody can make you feel inferior without your consent.

*Helen Keller: We could never learn to be brave and patient if there were only joy in the world.

*Helen Keller: Life is either a daring adventure or nothing at all.

*Eleanor Roosevelt: I could never be content simply to look on. Life was meant to be lived. We must never, for any reason, turn our backs on life.

*Eleanor Roosevelt: Tomorrow is now.

*Ella Wheeler Wilcox: We get what we give.

*Helen Keller: The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or even touched. They must be felt with the heart.

*Sojouner Truth: I'm not going to die, I'm going home like a shooting star.

*Eleanor Roosevelt: Think as little as possible about yourself and as much as possible about other people.

*Teresa of Avila: Strive to be the servant of all; for acting thus, you'll do more for yourself than others.

*Eleanor Roosevelt: It is not fair to ask of others what you are not willing to do for yourself.

*Teresa of Avila: Let us take notes of our own faults and leave others' alone.

*Christine de Pisan: Heaven grant me strength to forgive all offenses willingly.

*Christine de Pisan: A great gift to one's child is knowledge.

*Margaret Fuller: be careful with truth towards children; to a child, the parents or teacher is the representative of justice.

*Christine de Pisan: To teach good behavior one wisely understands that young people must play and laugh.

*Willa Cather: Where there is great love, there are always miracles.

*Marguerite of Navarre: Love works wonders.

*Teresa of Avila: Accustom yourself to make many acts of love, for they enkindle and melt the soul.

*Margaret Fuller: Faith and self-respect always lead to an outward serenity and inward peace.

*Marguerite of Navarre: Blessed is he who has the power to do evil and chooses not to.

*Christine de Pisan: It is better to be deceived than to deceive.

*Ella Wheeler Wilcox: Your thoughts in the first half-hour of the morning will greatly influence the rest of the day.

*Teresa of Avila: Humility must always be doing its work like a bee making its honey in the hive. Without humility , all will be lost.

*Ella Wheeler Wilcox: To be kind means to be thoughtful.

*Christine de Pisan: True humility quiets the noise of pride. So, be humble and patient.

*Ella Wheeler Wilcox: Read and think and talk of cheerful, hopeful, interesting subjects.

*Christine de Pisan: Read willingly fine books as much as you can, for it never fails that the examples such books comprise can help you become wise.

*Ida B. Wells: Our job was to go to school and learn all we could.

*Christine de Pisan: oh, children and youths! If only you knew the delight of knowledge and the ugliness of ignorance- you would not complain about the labor of studying.

*Marian Anderson: you loose a lot of time hating people.

*Mary McLeod Bethune: Enemies must be forgiven.

*Ida B. Wells: Virtue knows no color lines.

*Marian Anderson: As long as you keep a person sown, some part of you has to be down to hold him; so it means you cannot soar as you otherwise might.

*Indira Ghandi: Peace we want because there is another war to fight- poverty, disease, ignorance.

*Eleanor Roosevelt: 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: This I believe with all my heart. If we want a free and peaceful world- we can do it!

*Helen Keller: When we do the best we can, we never know what miracles await.

*Mary McLeod Bethune: Great faith, too, is faith in one's self.

*Harriet Beecher Stowe: Where people are determined to be anything, they will be!

*Mary McLeod Bethune: Have faith in God, faith in yourself, and a desire to serve.

*Mary McLeod Bethune: Without faith nothing is possible. With it, nothing is impossible.

*Eleanor Roosevelt: The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams.

*Anne Frank: How wonderful it is that nobody need wait a single moment before starting to improve the world.

*Ida B. Wells: Let us continue toward educating character.

*Elizabeth Blackwell: Our duty is loyalty to right, opposition to wrong.

*Joan of Arc: I would rather die than revoke what God made me do.

*Helen Keller: One can never consent to creep when one feels the impulse to soar.

*Louisa May Alcott: There is much merit in good manners as in hard work.

*Margaret Fuller: An original mind is rarely understood.

*Lucille Ball: Getting into trouble and getting out of it will always be the essence of comedy.

*Eleanor Roosevelt: happiness is not a goal; it's a by-product.

*Anne Frank: Whoever is happy will make others happy.

*Emily Dickinson: The sense of living is joy enough.

*Ella Wheeler Wilcox: Don't anticipate the happiness of tomorrow. Discover it today.

*Colette: You will do foolish things, but do them with enthusiasm.

*Ella Wheeler Wilcox: Laugh and the world laughs with you; Weep and you weep alone.

*Helen Keller: When one door of happiness closes, another opens.

*Helen Keller: Happiness must come from within.

*Mary Cassatt: It would be ungracious to grumble.

*Helen Keller: Keep your face to the sunshine and you cannot see the shadows.