Eleanor Roosevelt Quotes

Success must include two things: the development of an individual to his utmost potentiality and a contribution of some kind to one's world.

I have a great belief in spiritual force, but I think we have to realize that spiritual force alone has to have material force with it so long as we live in a material world. The two together make a strong combination.

No one can move without some leadership.

Character building begins in our infancy and continues until death.

Nothing alive can stand still, it goes forward or back. Life is interesting only as long as it is a process of growth; or, to put it another way, we can only grow as long as we are interested.

Sometimes it is extremely good for you to forget that there is anything in the world which needs to be done, and to do some particular thing that you want to do. Every human being needs a certain amount of time in which he can be peaceful.

All of us ... should remember that no amount of flag-waving, pledging allegiance, or fervent singing of the national anthem is evidence that we are patriotic in the real sense of the word. ... Outward behavior, while important, is not the real measure of a man's patriotism.

You achieve strength, braveness and confidence by each experience in which you really halt to search dread during the deal with

It's your life - but only if you make it so. The standards by which you live must be your own standards, your own values, your own convictions in regard to what is right and wrong, what is true and false, what is important and what is trivial. When you adopt the standards and the values of someone else . . . you surrender your own integrity. You become, to the extent of your surrender, less of a human being.

You should always own a black dress because no one ever remembers a black dress.

If you have any interests you can gain a wider audience for those interests while the goldfish bowl is yours!

There is nothing to regret, either for those who go, or for those who stay behind — only an inheritance of good accomplishment to be lived up to by those who carry a loving memory in their hearts.

If we do not pay for children in good schools, then we are going to pay for them in prisons and mental hospitals.

Poor minds talk about people average minds talk about events great minds talk about ideas

Everybody wants something.

I consider those are rich who are doing something they feel worthwhile and which they enjoy doing.

The basis of world peace is the teaching which runs through almost all the great religions of the world. Love thy neighbor as thyself.

If you take stands in any way and people feel that you have any success in - a following, why those who disagree with you are going to feel very strongly about it.

This is not a time when women should be patient. We are in a war and we need to fight it with all our ability and every weapon possible. Women pilots, in this particular case, are a weapon waiting to be used.

Change means the unknown.

The family is the natural and fundamental group unit of society and is entitled to protection by society and the State.

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

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

Friends, you and me... you brought another friend... and then there were three... we started our group... our circle of friends... and like that circle... there is no beginning or end.

I never waste time looking back.

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.

I have often thought that less is expected of the president of a great corporation than of an American wife.

a society in which there is widespread economic insecurity can turn freedom into a barren and vapid right for millions of people.

How can we be such fools as to go on senselessly taking human life in this way? Why the women in every nation do not rise up and refuse to bring children into a world of this kind is beyond my understanding.

The morality of a [political] party must grow out of the conscience and the participation of the voters.

Mahatma Gandhi I would say had perhaps a greater spiritual quality whereas Winston Churchill had besides the courage, ability and above everything else, the ability to put into words what his people felt so that he could always lead them. And my own husband I think had great patience, which you need in a democracy because you have to come to do fundamental things, you have to have the patience to have people educated; and then I think he had a deep interest in human beings as human beings.

It seems to me of great importance to teach children respect for life.

Courage is more exhilarating than fear, and in the long run, it is easier.

If we fail to meet our problems here, no one else in the world will do so. If we fail, the heart goes out of progressives throughout the world.

A number of people still think of the United States as being overwhelmingly English, Protestant, and white. This erroneous idea influences their whole outlook.

We will never have peace without friendship around the world.

Feelings, too, are facts. Emotion is a fact. Human experience is a fact. It is often possible to gain more real insight into human beings and their motivation by reading great fiction than by personal acquaintance.

A democratic form of government, a democratic way of life, presupposes free public education over a long period; it presupposes also an education for personal responsibility that too often is neglected.

No one from the beginning of time has had security.

To handle yourself, use your head; to handle others, use your heart. Anger is only one letter short of danger. If someone betrays you once, it is his fault; if he betrays you twice, it is your fault. Great minds discuss ideas; average minds discuss events; small minds discuss people. He who loses money, loses much; he who loses a friend, loses much more; he who loses faith, loses all.

Organize first for knowledge, first with the object of making us know ourselves as a nation, for we have to do that before we canbe of value to other nations of the world and then organize to accomplish the things that you decide to want. Anddon't make decisions with the interest of youth alone before you. Make your decisions because they are good for the nation as a whole.

Education is the cornerstone of liberty.

I think if the people of this country can be reached with the truth, their judgment will be in favor of the many, as against the privileged few

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

experience should teach us that it is always the unexpected that does occur.

We mast show by our behavior that we believe in equality and justice and that our religion teaches faith and love and charity to our fellow men. Here is where each of us has a job to do that must be done at home, because we can lose the battle on the soil of the United States just as surely as we can lose it in any one of the countries of the world.

To appear to be on the inside and know more than others about what is going on is a great temptation for most people. It is a rare person who is willing to seem to know less than he does ... Somehow, people seem to feel that it is belittling to their importance not to know more than other people.

The destiny of human rights is in the hands of all our citizens in all our communities.