Quotes By Eleanor Roosevelt

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.

I can not believe that war is the best solution. No one won the last war, and no one will win the next war.

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

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.

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.

Happiness is not a goal; it is a by-product.

What one has to do usually can be done.

With the new day comes new strength and new thoughts.

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.

My experience has been that work is almost the best way to pull oneself out of the depths.

Never allow a person to tell you no who doesn't have the power to say yes.

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.

If life were predictable it would cease to be life, and be without flavor.

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.

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 better to light a candle than curse the darkness.

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

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.

Too often the great decisions are originated and given form in bodies made up wholly of men, or so completely dominated by them that whatever of special value women have to offer is shunted aside without expression.

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.

The giving of love is an education in itself.

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.

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

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

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.

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