Eleanor Roosevelt Quotes
We will have to want peace, want it enough to pay for it, before it becomes an accepted rule.
Poor minds talk about people average minds talk about events great minds talk about ideas
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.
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.
Life must be lived and curiosity kept alive. One must never, for whatever reason, turn his back on life.
Lest I keep my complacent way I must remember somewhere out there a person died for me today. As long as there must be war, I ask and I must answer was I worth dying for?
We are given in our newspapers and on TV and radio exactly what we, the public, insist on having, and this very frequently is mediocre information and mediocre entertainment.
Remember always that you have not only the right to be an individual; you have an obligation to be one.
I can't tell you how to succeed, but I can tell you how to fail: Try to please everybody.
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.
Enjoy every minute you have with those you love, my dear, for no one can take joy that is past away from you. It will be there in your heart to live on when the dark days come.
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.
The future is literally in our hands to mold as we like. But we cannot wait until tomorrow. Tomorrow is now.
Some people are going to leave a mark on this world, while others will leave a stain.
Hate and force cannot be in just a part of the world without having an effect on the rest of it.
Do not stop thinking of life as an adventure. You have no security unless you can live bravely, excitingly, imaginatively; unless you can choose a challenge instead of competence.
It takes courage to love, but pain through love is the purifying fire which those who love generously know.
The important thing is neither your nationality nor the religion you professed, but how your faith translated itself in your life.
Life has got to be lived - that's all there is to it. At seventy, I would say the advantage is that you take life more calmly. You know that 'this, too, shall pass!'
a society in which there is widespread economic insecurity can turn freedom into a barren and vapid right for millions of people.
Since everybody is an individual, nobody can be you. You are unique. No one can tell you how to use your time. It is yours. Your life is your own. You mold it. You make it.
On the whole our armed services have been doing pretty well in the way of keeping us defended, but I hope our State Department will remember that it is really the department of achieving peace.
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 basis of world peace is the teaching which runs through almost all the great religions of the world. Love thy neighbor as thyself.
So, after all, we are but puppets, creatures of our fate, not commanding it but being molded by it.
If we want a free and peaceful world, if we want to make the deserts bloom and man grow to greater dignity as a human being - we can do it.
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.
Of course, I do not believe in having everyone who is a liberal called a communist, or everyone who is conservative called a fascist.
The destiny of human rights is in the hands of all our citizens in all our communities.