Eleanor Roosevelt Quotes
Autobiographies are only useful as the lives you read about and analyze may suggest to you something that you may find useful in your own journey through life.
I could not at any age be content to take my place in a corner by the fireside and simply look on.
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.
Do one thing everyday that scares you. Those small things that make us uncomfortable help us build courage to do the work we do.
Remember, no one can make you feel inferior without being related to you and repeatedly questioning why you're in nonprofit.
I have always felt that it was important that everyone who was a worker join a labor organization.
Criticism ... makes very little dent upon me, unless I think there is some real justification and something should be done.
At any age it does us no harm to look over our past shortcomings and plan to improve our characters and actions in the coming year.
When you build a memorial, you build it not because the person wanted it, but for the future -- for generations who didn't know the man and didn't know the era in which he lived.
Spiritual leadership should remain spiritual leadership and the temporal power should not become too important in any church.
The more we simplify our material needs the more we are free to think of other things.
It is a brave thing to have courage to be an individual; it is also, perhaps, a lonely thing. But it is better than not being an individual, which is to be nobody at all.
In our country we must trust the people to hear and see both the good and the bad and to choose the good.
At all times, day by day, we have to continue fighting for freedom of religion, freedom of speech, and freedom from want... for these are things that must be gained in peace as well as in war.
We don't become heroes overnight." - One step at a time, eventually discovering we have the strength to stare it down.
I know that we will be the sufferers if we let great wrongs occur without exerting ourselves to correct them.
A day out-of-doors, someone I loved to talk with, a good book and some simple food and music - that would be rest.
Obedience may have its uses, but it is no substitute for willing, uncoerced co-operation.
There never has been security. No man has ever known what he would meet around the next corner; if life were predictable it would cease to be life, and be without flavor.
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.
Of course Mahatma Gandhi you might say did not have so much physical vigor but he certainly seemed to have extraordinary resistance, which perhaps is rather different from physical vigor.
The family is the natural and fundamental group unit of society and is entitled to protection by society and the State.
Everyone has the right to rest and leisure, including reasonable limitation of working hours and periodic holidays with pay.
Anyone who thinks must think of the next war as they would of suicide.
It seems to me that I cannot afford, as a self-respecting individual, to refuse to do a thing merely because it will make me disliked or bring down a storm of criticism on my head.
To be mature you have to realize what you value most... Not to arrive at a clear understanding of one's own values is a tragic waste. You have missed the whole point of what life is for.
Most of the work that's done in the world gets done by people who weren't feeling all that well at the time that they did it.
Curiously enough, it is often the people who refuse to assume any responsibility who are apt to be the sharpest critics of those who do.
If we do not pay for children in good schools, then we are going to pay for them in prisons and mental hospitals.
One should always sleep in all of one's guest beds, to make sure that they are comfortable.
