Eleanor Roosevelt Quotes

Before we can make friends with anyone else, we must first make friends with ourselves.

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

Think as little as possible about yourself and as much as possible about other people.

You do the things that need to be done according to priority.

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

The trouble is that not enough people have come together with the firm determination to live the things which they say they believe.

You never know anyone until you marry them.

You gain strength, courage, and confidence by doing the thing which you think you cannot do.

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

No leader can be too far ahead of his followers.

I have spent many years of my life in opposition, and I rather like the role.

One thing life has taught me: if you are interested, you never have to look for new interests. They come to you. When you are genuinely interested in one thing, it will always lead to something else.

We must preserve our right to think and differ.

True hospitality consists of giving the best of yourself to your guests.

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.

Everyone has the right to work, to free choice of employment, to just and favorable conditions of work and to protection against unemployment.

Friendship with oneself is all important.

We all create the person we become by our choices as we go through life. In a real sense, by the time we are adults, we are the sum total of the choices we have made.

It is not that you set the individual apart from society but that you recognize in any society that the individual must have rights that are guarded.

I believe that anyone can conquer fear by doing the things he fears to do.

We have to face the fact that either all of us are going to die together or we are going to learn to live together and if we are to live together we have to talk.

It is a curious thing in human experience, but to live through a period of stress and sorrow with another person, creates a bond which nothing seems able to break.

The word liberal comes from the word free. We must cherish and honor the word free or it will cease to apply to us.

The war for freedom will never really be won because the price of freedom is constant vigilance over ourselves and over our Government.

Be flexible, but stick to your principles.

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

Perhaps nature is our best assurance of immortality.

We must do that which we think we cannot.

There is nothing to fear except fear it's self.

...conservation of land and conservation of people frequently go hand in hand.

This is a time for action — not for war, but for mobilization of every bit of peace machinery.

Happiness is not a goal, it is a by-product. For what keeps our interest in life and makes us look forward to tomorrow is giving pleasure to other people.

Change means the unknown.

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

No human being can ever 'own' another, whether in friendship, love, marriage, or parenthood.

To leave the world richer—that is the ultimate success.

The things you refuse to meet today always come back at you later on, usually under circumstances which make the decision twice as difficult as it originally was.

We must be willing to learn the lesson that cooperation may imply compromise, but if it brings a world advance it is a gain for each individual nation.

Comparison is the thief of all joy.

As for accomplishments, I just did what I had to do as things came along.

Terrific minds focus on tips; average minds go over activities; little minds talk about people today.

Philosophy is not best expressed in words; it is expressed in the choices one makes.

Furnish an example, stop preaching, stop shielding, don't prevent self-reliance and initiative, allow your children to develop along thier own lines.

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

Work is always an antidote to depression.

Every day do something that frightens you.

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

We face the future fortified with the lessons we have learned from the past. It is today that we must create the world of the future.

You always admire what you really don't understand. - Eleanor Roosevelt

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