Eleanor Roosevelt Quotes

Perhaps nature is our best assurance of immortality... view

By: Eleanor Roosevelt

There are practical little things in housekeeping which no man really understands... view

By: Eleanor Roosevelt

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

By: Eleanor Roosevelt

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... view

By: Eleanor Roosevelt

The giving of love is an education in itself... view

By: Eleanor Roosevelt

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

By: Eleanor Roosevelt

Sometimes I wonder if we shall ever grow up in our politics and say definite things which mean something, or whether we shall always go on using generalities to which everyone can subscribe, and which mean very little... view

By: Eleanor Roosevelt

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... view

By: Eleanor Roosevelt

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

By: Eleanor Roosevelt

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.. view

By: Eleanor Roosevelt

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

By: Eleanor Roosevelt

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

By: Eleanor Roosevelt

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

By: Eleanor Roosevelt

One's philosophy is not best expressed in words.. view

By: Eleanor Roosevelt

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

By: Eleanor Roosevelt

No one can make you feel inferior without your consent... view

By: Eleanor Roosevelt

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

By: Eleanor Roosevelt

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

By: Eleanor Roosevelt

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

By: Eleanor Roosevelt

You must do the things you think you cannot do... view

By: Eleanor Roosevelt

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... view

By: Eleanor Roosevelt

You gain strength, courage, and confidence by every experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face. You are able to say to yourself, 'I lived through this horror. I can take the next thing that comes along.'.. view

By: Eleanor Roosevelt

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... view

By: Eleanor Roosevelt

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... view

By: Eleanor Roosevelt

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... view

By: Eleanor Roosevelt

With the new day comes new strength and new thoughts... view

By: Eleanor Roosevelt

Understanding is a two-way street... view

By: Eleanor Roosevelt

When will our consciences grow so tender that we will act to prevent human misery rather than avenge it?.. view

By: Eleanor Roosevelt

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... view

By: Eleanor Roosevelt

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

By: Eleanor Roosevelt

What one has to do usually can be done... view

By: Eleanor Roosevelt

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... view

By: Eleanor Roosevelt

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

By: Eleanor Roosevelt

Women are like teabags. We don't know our true strength until we are in hot water!.. view

By: Eleanor Roosevelt

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... view

By: Eleanor Roosevelt

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... view

By: Eleanor Roosevelt

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

By: Eleanor Roosevelt

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

By: Eleanor Roosevelt

Happiness is not a goal.. view

By: Eleanor Roosevelt

Great minds discuss ideas.. view

By: Eleanor Roosevelt

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

By: Eleanor Roosevelt

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

By: Eleanor Roosevelt