Quotes By Eleanor Roosevelt

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.

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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