Eleanor Roosevelt Quotes

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.

I wonder if one of the penalties of growing older is that you become more and more conscious that nothing is very permanent.

Whatever come we have to meet it.

Every age is an unknown country.

I would not be happy unless I had some regular work to do every day and I imagine that I will always feel that way no matter how old I am.

This living in a democracy is a problem, isn't it?

Long ago, I made up my mind that, when things were said involving only me, I would pay no attention to them, except when valid criticism was carried by which I could profit.

It is our freedom to progress that makes us all want to live and to go on.

An economic policy which does not consider the well-being of all will not serve the purposes of peace and the growth of well-being among the people of all nations.

I never thought of achievement. I just did what came along for me to do - the thing that gave me the most pleasure.

For instance, it is certain that women do not want a woman for President. Nor would they have the slightest confidence in her ability to fulfill the functions of that office.

Every woman wants to be first to someone sometime in her life and that desire is the explanation for many strange things women do.

Success in marriage depends on being able, when you get over being in love, to really love....You never know anyone until you marry them.

Be confident, not certain

When you know to laugh and when to look upon things as too absurd to take seriously, the other person is ashamed to carry through even if he was serious about it.

...real prosperity can only come when everybody prospers.

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

When all is said and done, and statesmen discuss the future of the world, the fact remains that people fight these wars.

Democracy cannot be static. Whatever is static is dead.

All big things in human history have been arrived at slowly and through many compromises.

This is a strange, little, complacent country [Switzerland], in many ways a USA in miniature but of course nearer the center of disturbance!

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

You [future first ladies] will feel that you are no longer clothing yourself, you are dressing a public monument.

When you are genuinely interested in one thing, it will always lead to something else.

We need our radicals.

More people are ruined by victory, I imagine, than be defeat.

Keep us at tasks too hard for us that we may be driven to Thee for strength.

No, I have never wanted to be a man. I have often wanted to be more effective as a woman, but I have never felt that trousers would do the trick!

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

The hard part of loving is that one has to learn so often to let go of those we love, so they can do things, so they can grow, so they can return to us with an even richer, deeper love.

The constant pressure to bring about conformity is a dangerous thing.

I have learned long ago to possess my soul in patience and accept the inevitable.

There is not human being from whom we cannot learn something if we are interested enough to dig deep.

The most important word in the English language is hope.

The world conspires to help those who are in love with the beauty of their dreams.

There is a widespread understanding among the people of this nation, and probably among the people of the world, that there is no safety except through the prevention of war.

People can only make you inferior with your consent.

We have reached a point today where labor-saving devices are good only when they do not throw the worker out of his job.

Losing money is a big loss, losing friends is greater than the loss, also lost all faith is lost

We must do what we think we can't do.

I found that almost everyone had something interesting to contribute to my education.

To tell the people in the West not to use their cars means that these people may never see another soul for weeks and weeks nor have a way of getting a sick person to a doctor.

Because they have so little, children must rely on imagination rather than experience.

If you have to compromise, be sure to compromise up.

Marriage and the up-bringing of children in the home require as well-trained a mind and as well-disciplined a character as any other occupation that might be considered a career.

I could never say in the morning, "I have a headache and cannot do thus and so". Headache or no headache, thus and so had to be done.

We have come to accept bigger and bigger things as meaning greater and greater efficiency, more and more prosperity and more and more freedom. The two do not go together of necessity.

Men have to be reminded that women exist.

Everybody wants something.

Get out of the way as quickly as you're not needed.