Quotes By Eleanor Roosevelt

The Bible illustrated by Dore occupied many of my hours - and I think probably gave me many nightmares.

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.

The only things one can admire at length are those one admires without knowing why.

Have convictions. Be friendly. Stick to your beliefs as they stick to theirs. Work as hard as they do.

Campaign behavior for wives: Always be on time. Do as little talking as humanly possible. Lean back in the parade car so everybody can see the president.

Since you get more joy out of giving joy to others, you should put a good deal of thought into the happiness that you are able to give.

What one has to do usually can be done.

With the new day comes new strength and new thoughts.

People grow through experience if they meet life honestly and courageously. This is how character is built.

You can't move so fast that you try to change the mores faster than people can accept it. That doesn't mean you do nothing, but it means that you do the things that need to be done according to priority.

A woman is like a tea bag - you can't tell how strong she is until you put her in hot water.

What you don't do can be a destructive force.

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.

The battle for the individual rights of women is one of long standing and none of us should countenance anything which undermines it.

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.

Perhaps nature is our best assurance of immortality.

We gain strength, and courage, and confidence by each experience in which we really stop to look fear in the face... we must do that which we think we cannot.

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

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

When life is too easy for us, we must beware or we may not be ready to meet the blows which sooner or later come to everyone, rich or poor.

Remember always that you not only have the right to be an individual, you have an obligation to be one.

A little simplification would be the first step toward rational living, I think.

One's philosophy is not best expressed in words; it is expressed in the choices one makes... and the choices we make are ultimately our responsibility.

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.

It is not more vacation we need - it is more vocation.

Anyone who thinks must think of the next war as they would of suicide.

We are afraid to care too much, for fear that the other person does not care at all.

Probably the happiest period in life most frequently is in middle age, when the eager passions of youth are cooled, and the infirmities of age not yet begun; as we see that the shadows, which are at morning and evening so large, almost entirely disappear at midday.

The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams.

The only advantage of not being too good a housekeeper is that your guests are so pleased to feel how very much better they are.