Quotes By Eleanor Roosevelt

Hate and force cannot be in just a part of the world without having an effect on the rest of it.

The giving of love is an education in itself.

When you cease to make a contribution, you begin to die.

Anyone who knows history, particularly the history of Europe, will, I think, recognize that the domination of education or of government by any one particular religious faith is never a happy arrangement for the people.

Freedom makes a huge requirement of every human being. With freedom comes responsibility. For the person who is unwilling to grow up, the person who does not want to carry is own weight, this is a frightening prospect.

Ambition is pitiless. Any merit that it cannot use it finds despicable.

Actors are one family over the entire world.

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

Old age has deformities enough of its own. It should never add to them the deformity of vice.

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.

Justice cannot be for one side alone, but must be for both.

You have to accept whatever comes and the only important thing is that you meet it with courage and with the best that you have to give.

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

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

Understanding is a two-way street.

I believe that anyone can conquer fear by doing the things he fears to do, provided he keeps doing them until he gets a record of successful experience behind him.

Great minds discuss ideas; average minds discuss events; small minds discuss people.

Do what you feel in your heart to be right- for you'll be criticized anyway. You'll be damned if you do, and damned if you don't.

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

Only a man's character is the real criterion of worth.

Perhaps nature is our best assurance of immortality.

I'm so glad I never feel important, it does complicate life!

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.

It takes as much energy to wish as it does to plan.

Autobiographies are only useful as the lives you read about and analyze may suggest to you something that you may find useful in your own journey through life.

Friendship with ones self is all important, because without it one cannot be friends with anyone else in the world.

As for accomplishments, I just did what I had to do as things came along.

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.

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.