Top 100 Quotes About Eleanor Roosevelt
#2. What I have learned from my own experience is that the most important ingredients in a child's education are curiosity, interest, imagination, and a sense of the adventure of life.
Eleanor Roosevelt
#3. All wars eventually act as boomerangs and the victor suffers as much as the vanquished.
Eleanor Roosevelt
#4. Eleanor Roosevelt never thought that she was attractive. She never thought that she was really sufficiently appealing. And I think her whole life was a response to her effort to get her mother to pay attention to her, to love her, and to love her as much as she loved her brothers.
Blanche Wiesen Cook
#5. I wonder if one of the penalties of growing older is that you become more and more conscious that nothing is very permanent.
Eleanor Roosevelt
#6. There is a widespread understanding among the people of this nation, and probably among the people of the world, that there is no safety except through the prevention of war.
Eleanor Roosevelt
#7. Each generation supposes that the world was simpler for the one before it.
Eleanor Roosevelt
#9. I think Eleanor Roosevelt's so popular at Allenswood because it's the first time she is, number one, free. But it's the first time somebody really recognizes her own leadership abilities and her own scholarly abilities.
Blanche Wiesen Cook
#10. This freedom of which men speak, for which they fight, seems to some people a perilous thing. It has to be earned at a bitter cost and then - it has to be lived with. For freedom makes a huge requirement of every human being. With freedom comes responsibility.
Eleanor Roosevelt
#11. Pit race against race, religion against religion, prejudice against prejudice. Divide and conquer! We must not let that happen here.
Eleanor Roosevelt
#12. Miss Volker," I said about as politely as I knew how, "do you think you will outlast the rest of these original people?" "I have to," she said. "I made a promise to Eleanor Roosevelt to see them to their graves, and I can't drop dead on the job - so let's get going.
Jack Gantos
#13. Sometimes it is extremely good for you to forget that there is anything in the world which needs to be done, and to do some particular thing that you want to do. Every human being needs a certain amount of time in which he can be peaceful.
Eleanor Roosevelt
#14. Franklin [D. Roosevelt] had a good way of simplifying things. He made people feel that he had a real understanding of things and they felt they had about the same understanding.
Eleanor Roosevelt
#15. The constant pressure to bring about conformity is a dangerous thing.
Eleanor Roosevelt
#17. If it's a man's game so decidedly that a woman would be soiled by entering it, then there is something radically wrong with the American game of politics.
Eleanor Roosevelt
#18. She (Eleanor Roosevelt) got even in a way that was almost cruel. She forgave them.
Ralph McGill
#19. A candle can bring light to a dungeon but it can also be used to light a deadly marijuana cigarette.
Eleanor Roosevelt
#20. A day out-of- doors, someone I loved to talk with, a good book and some simple food and music - that would be rest.
- Eleanor Roosevelt
Eleanor Roosevelt
#21. Beautiful young people are accidents of nature, but beautiful old people are works of art.
Eleanor Roosevelt
#22. 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
#23. You achieve strength, braveness and confidence by each experience in which you really halt to search dread during the deal with
Eleanor Roosevelt
#25. I believe that anyone can conquer fear by doing the things he fears to do ...
Eleanor Roosevelt
#26. You not only have a right to be an individual. You have a responsibility.
Eleanor Roosevelt
#27. I kept praying that I might be able to prevent a repetition of this stupidity called war. I have tried to keep the promise I made to myself, but the progress that the world is making toward peace seems like the crawling of a little child, very halting and slow.
Eleanor Roosevelt
#30. America is not a pile of goods, more luxury, more comforts, a better telephone system, a greater number of cars. America is a dream of greater justice and opportunity for the average man and, if we can not obtain it, all our other
achievements amount to nothing.
Eleanor Roosevelt
#31. Enjoy every minute you have with those you love, my dear, for no one can take joy that is past away from you. It will be there in your heart to live on when the dark days come.
Eleanor Roosevelt
#32. How can we be such fools as to go on senselessly taking human life in this way? Why the women in every nation do not rise up and refuse to bring children into a world of this kind is beyond my understanding.
Eleanor Roosevelt
#33. Basic decisions of our society are made through the expressed will of the people. That is why when we see these liberties threatened, instead of falling apart, our nation becomes unified and our democracies come together... in spite of our varied backgrounds and many racial strains.
Eleanor Roosevelt
#34. There is a desire for progress in the hearts of all men, and it is the sense of frustration and inability to move forward that brings violent revolution.
Eleanor Roosevelt
#36. We are given in our newspapers and on TV and radio exactly what we, the public, insist on having, and this very frequently is mediocre information and mediocre entertainment.
Eleanor Roosevelt
#37. Before we can make friends with anyone else, we must first make friends with ourselves.
Eleanor Roosevelt
#38. The important thing is neither your nationality nor the religion you professed, but how your faith translated itself in your life.
Eleanor Roosevelt
#39. I learned then that practically no one in the world is entirely bad or entirely good, and that motives are often more important than actions.
Eleanor Roosevelt
#40. If anyone were to ask me what I want out of life I would say- the opportunity for doing something useful, for in no other way, I am convinced, can true happiness be attained.
Eleanor Roosevelt
#41. I say to the young: Do not stop thinking of life as an adventure. You have no security unless you can live bravely, excitingly, imaginatively.
Eleanor Roosevelt
#43. Philosophy is not best expressed in words; it is expressed in the choices one makes.
Eleanor Roosevelt
#44. Make the most of What you have, When you have it, Where you are.
Eleanor Roosevelt
#45. I can't tell you how to succeed, but I can tell you how to fail: Try to please everybody.
Eleanor Roosevelt
#46. If the use of leisure time is confined to looking at TV for a few extra hours every day, we will deteriorate as a people.
Eleanor Roosevelt
#47. Many people will walk in and out of your life, but only true friends will leave footprints in your heart
Eleanor Roosevelt
#49. I believe you should tell the story of injustices, of inequalities, of bad conditions, so that the people as a whole in this country really face the problems that people who are pushed to the point of striking know all about, but others know practically nothing about.
Eleanor Roosevelt
#50. We have to face the fact that either all of us are going to die together or we are going to learn to live together, and if we are to live together we have to talk.
Eleanor Roosevelt
#51. We have come to accept bigger and bigger things as meaning greater and greater efficiency, more and more prosperity and more and more freedom. The two do not go together of necessity ...
Eleanor Roosevelt
#52. In all our contacts it is probably the sense of being really needed and wanted which gives us the greatest satisfaction and creates the most lasting bond.
Eleanor Roosevelt
#55. You can never really live anyone else's life, not even your child's. The influence you exert is through your own life, and what you've become yourself.
Eleanor Roosevelt
#56. This is not a time when women should be patient. We are in a war and we need to fight it with all our ability and every weapon possible. Women pilots, in this particular case, are a weapon waiting to be used.
Eleanor Roosevelt
#57. I used to tell my husband that, if he could make me 'understand' something, it would be clear to all the other people in the country.
Eleanor Roosevelt
#59. The campaign to put a woman on the $20 bill has narrowed the choices down to four finalists. The four finalists are Rosa Parks, Harriet Tubman, Eleanor Roosevelt, and Flo from the Progressive Insurance ads.
Conan O'Brien
#60. This is a time for action - not for war, but for mobilization of every bit of peace machinery.
Eleanor Roosevelt
#61. About the only value the story of my life may have is to show that one can, even without any particular gifts, overcome obstacles that seem insurmountable if one is willing to face the fact that they must be overcome.
Eleanor Roosevelt
#62. Women are like tea bags.They do not know how strong they are until they get into hot water.
Eleanor Roosevelt
#63. Courage is more exhilarating than fear and in the long run it is easier. We do not have to become heroes overnight. Just a step at a time, meeting each thing that comes up, seeing it is not as dreadful as it appeared, discovering we have the strength to stare it down.
Eleanor Roosevelt
#64. We must be willing to learn the lesson that cooperation may imply compromise, but if it brings a world advance it is a gain for each individual nation.
Eleanor Roosevelt
#67. I believe that it is essential to our leadership in the world and to the development of true democracy in our country to have no discrimination in our country whatsoever. This is most important in the schools of our country.
Eleanor Roosevelt
#69. My life can be so arranged that I can live on whatever I have. If I cannot live as I have lived in the past, I shall live differently, and living differently does not mean living with less attention to the things that make life gracious and pleasant or with less enjoyment of things of the mind.
Eleanor Roosevelt
#71. I would not be happy unless I had some regular work to do every day and I imagine that I will always feel that way no matter how old I am.
Eleanor Roosevelt
#72. A guest is really good or bad because of the host or hostess who makes being a guest an easy or a difficult task.
Eleanor Roosevelt
#73. It is, however, the better part of wisdom to regard the mistake as experience which will help guide you in the future, a part, though a painful part, of your education.
Eleanor Roosevelt
#74. One of the best ways of enslaving a people is to keep them from education.
Eleanor Roosevelt
#75. Success in marriage depends on being able, when you get over being in love, to really love.
Eleanor Roosevelt
#76. We must know what we think and speak out, even at the risk of unpopularity.
Eleanor Roosevelt
#77. So she [Eleanor Roosevelt] is an amazing First Lady. What other First Lady in U.S. history has ever written a book to criticize her husband's policies?
Blanche Wiesen Cook
#78. I could never say in the morning, "I have a headache and cannot do thus and so". Headache or no headache, thus and so had to be done.
Eleanor Roosevelt
#79. The word liberal comes from the word free. We must cherish and honor the word free or it will cease to apply to us.
Eleanor Roosevelt
#80. Nothing was ever accomplished by anyone who said 'It can't be done.'
Eleanor Roosevelt
#81. As for accomplishments, I just did what I had to do as things came along.
Eleanor Roosevelt
#82. Everyone has the right to work, to free choice, to employment, to just and favorable conditions of work and to protectior against unemployment.
Eleanor Roosevelt
#83. I wonder," wrote Eleanor Roosevelt, "whether we have decided to hide behind neutrality? It is safe, perhaps, but I am not always sure it is right to be safe. . . Every time a nation which has known freedom loses it, other free nations lose something, too.
Madeleine K. Albright
#84. The Eleanor Roosevelt Award that I received for women's rights activities is one I treasure.
Patty Duke
#85. The New York Times, whose editorial department sounds like Cotton Mather rewriting Eleanor Roosevelt ...
William F. Buckley Jr.
#86. As Eleanor Roosevelt observed, "No one can hurt you without your consent." In the words of Gandhi, "They cannot take away our self respect if we do not give it to them.
Anonymous
#87. It is a curious thing in human experience, but to live through a period of stress and sorrow with another person, creates a bond which nothing seems able to break.
Eleanor Roosevelt
#88. As a people, I am afraid, we tend too often to brush aside with impatience, sometimes with discourtesy, customs and points of view which are alien to us.
Eleanor Roosevelt
#89. One thing life has taught me: if you are interested, you never have to look for new interests. They come to you. When you are genuinely interested in one thing, it will always lead to something else.
Eleanor Roosevelt
#90. Women are like tea bags; you never know how strong they are until they're put in hot water. - ELEANOR ROOSEVELT
Deborah Rodriguez
#91. All big things in human history have been arrived at slowly and through many compromises.
Eleanor Roosevelt
#92. No matter how plain a woman may be, if truth and honesty are written across her face, she will be beautiful.
Eleanor Roosevelt
#93. A democratic form of government, a democratic way of life, presupposes free public education over a long period; it presupposes also an education for personal responsibility that too often is neglected.
Eleanor Roosevelt
#95. For our own success to be real, it must contribute to the success of others.
Eleanor Roosevelt
#96. When will our consciences grow so tender that we will act to prevent human misery rather than avenge it?
Eleanor Roosevelt
#97. Happiness is not a goal ... it's a by-product of a life well lived.
Eleanor Roosevelt
#98. We need emotional outlets in this country, and the more artistic people we develop the better it will be for us as a nation.
Eleanor Roosevelt
#99. The mother of a family should look upon her housekeeping and the planning of meals as a scientific occupation.
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