Eleanor Roosevelt Quotes

It is curious how much more interest can be evoked by a mixture of gossip, romance and mystery than by facts.

Anyone who has gone through great suffering is bound to have a greater sympathy and understanding of the problems of mankind.

the fundamental right of freedom of thought and expression is essential. If you curtail what the other fellow says and does, you curtail what you yourself may say and do.

To some of us, hunger was more academic than real, but we must try to develop the ability to feel the urgency of such a situation.

There is a desire for progress in the hearts of all men, and it is the sense of frustration and inability to move forward that brings violent revolution.

Staying aloof is not a solution, it is a cowardly evasion.

One of the blessings of age is to learn not to part on a note of sharpness, to treasure the moments spent with those we love, and to make them whenever possible good to remember, for time is short.

...no matter how avid they themselves may be for praise and appreciation, people are often niggardly in giving it to others, however merited it is.

Nothing was ever accomplished by anyone who said 'It can't be done.'

The basis of all good human behavior is kindness.

The people who came to New England, came for freedom of religion. The problem is, freedom of religion to them meant freedom for only their religion

Once your children are grown up and have children of their own, the problems are theirs and the less the older generation interferes the better.

There are no have-to's, just choices

Unused ability, like unused muscles, will atrophy.

If you approach each new person you meet in a spirit of adventure, you will find yourself endlessly fascinated by the new channels of thought and experience and personality that you encounter.

... any citizen should be willing to give all that he has to give his country in work or sacrifice in times of crisis.

Do the things that interest you and do them with all your heart.

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

The greatest gift you can give a child is an imagination.

If man is to be liberated to enjoy more leisure, he must also be prepared to enjoy this leisure fully and creatively.

I am convinced that every effort must be made in childhood to teach the young to use their own minds. For one thing is sure: If they don't make up their minds, someone will do it for them.

Will people ever be wise enough to refuse to follow bad leaders or to take away the freedom of other people?

No one from the beginning of time has had security.

Government exists for one purpose: to make things better for all people.

What I have learned from my own experience is that the most important ingredients in a child's education are curiosity, interest, imagination, and a sense of the adventure of life.

In the long run there is no more exhilarating experience than to determine one's position, state it bravely and then act boldly.

No one can insult you without your permission.

We need not fear any isms if our democracy is achieving the ends for which it was established.

Each time you learn something new you must readjust the whole framework of your knowledge

We need emotional outlets in this country, and the more artistic people we develop the better it will be for us as a nation.

what we need in the world is manners ... I think that if, instead of preaching brotherly love, we preached good manners, we might get a little further. It sounds less righteous and more practical.

I do not want church groups controlling the schools of our country. They must remain free.

The mobilization of world opinion and methods of negotiation should be developed and used by every nation in order to strengthen the United Nations.

Great leaders inspire people to have confidence in themselves.

If you must compromise, compromise up.

It has been a long fight to put the control of our economic system in the hands of the government.

How hard it is to project oneself into the future. We are always prone to think of the conditions which are with us today as being permanent conditions.

practically nothing we do ever stands by itself. If it is good, it will serve some good purpose in the future. If it is evil, it may haunt us and handicap our efforts in unimagined ways.

The word communist, of course, has become a rallying cry for certain people here just as the word Jew was in Hitler's Germany, a way of arousing emotion without engendering thought.

Life is meant to be lived.

No writing has any real value which is not the expression of genuine thought and feeling.

It is impossible to be a cynic if you live a good deal with young people. Fundamentally, every young person has a feeling that the future is going to hold something of value.

One thing is for sure-none of the arts flourishes on censorship and repression. And by this time it should be evident that the American public is capable of doing its own censoring.

What we must learn to do is to create unbreakable bonds between the sciences and the humanities. We cannot procrastinate. The world of the future is in our making. Tomorrow is now.

The purpose of life afterall is to live it.

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

I believe that all that we go through here must have some value.

The motivating force of the theory of a Democratic way of life is still a belief that as individuals we live cooperatively, and, to the best of our ability, serve the community in which we live.

Life's not about expecting, hoping and wishing. It's about doing, being and becoming. It's about t Learn from the mistakes of others. You can't live long enough to make them all yourself.

it is always easier to do nothing than to try a new line of action.