Eleanor Roosevelt Quotes

I believe that it is a great mistake not to stand up for people, even when you differ with them, if you feel that they are trying to do things that will help our country.

I have a great objection to seeing anyone, particularly anyone whom I care about, lose his self-control.

The economy of communism is an economy which grows in an atmosphere of misery and want.

To most teenagers, life is a strange uncharted land filled with a mixture of new joys, intensely felt, and painful confusions for which they know no anodyne.

the greatest luxury I know is sitting up reading in bed.

I learned then that practically no one in the world is entirely bad or entirely good, and that motives are often more important than actions.

Manipulate the situation to create the reality of your desire

One of the best ways of enslaving a people is to keep them from education.

Human resources are the most valuable assets the world has. They are all needed desperately.

I think it is impossible for one human being really to know another without first knowing and being at peace with himself.

I'm sure that all the drivers and motorcycle police had once been racing drivers and were eager to get back to that profession.

A respect for the rights of other peoples to determine their forms of government and their economy will not weaken our democracy. It will inevitably strengthen it.

talking too much is a far greater social fault than talking too little.

The leisure class is one in which individuals have sufficient economic security and sufficient leisure to find opportunity for a variety of satisfactions in life.

The morality of a [political] party must grow out of the conscience and the participation of the voters.

Perhaps the basic thing which contributes to charm is the ability to forget oneself and be engrossed in other people.

In business courtesy and efficiency have a symbiotic relationship.

We do not move forward by curtailing people's liberty because we are afraid of what they may do or say.

We cannot exist as a little island of well-being in a world where two-thirds of the people go to bed hungry every night.

You need not be proud of me.... I'm only being active till you can be again--it isn't such a great desire on my part to serve theworld and I'll fall back into habits of sloth quite easily!

I do not think I will ever become deadened, because I live in other people's lives, I must admit there are times when it weighs medown because I can't do some of the things I want.

Franklin [D. Roosevelt] had a good way of simplifying things. He made people feel that he had a real understanding of things and they felt they had about the same understanding.

Somehow we must be able to show people that democracy is not about words, but action.

If quitting smoking seems hard right now, it is exactly what you should start doing

One has to live in Washington to know what a city of rumors it is.

it is harder to be philosophical when you are young.

I have often thought that less is expected of the president of a great corporation than of an American wife.

Mr. [Richard M.] Nixon never has anything but hindsight.

Our obligation to the world is, primarily, our obligation to our own future. Obviously, we cannot develop beyond a certain point unless other nations develop, too.

Perhaps in His wisdom the Almighty is trying to show us that a leader may chart the way, may point out the road to lasting peace, but that many leaders and many peoples must do the building.

There is in every country an antipathy to the foreigner.

Poverty is an expensive luxury. We cannot afford it.

If it's a man's game so decidedly that a woman would be soiled by entering it, then there is something radically wrong with the American game of politics.

We all grow older and we all have to live with ourselves.

I wish I really knew what the Republican foreign policy has been. I don't. I am a Democrat, and I really don't know what it has been.

I know that given great responsibility men sometimes change, but Mr. Nixon's Presidency would worry me.

To a certain extent I don't see any real need for socialism in the United States immediately, but things change and it may be that there will come a need for partial changes in our economy.

I have complete faith in the American people's ability if they know and if they have leadership.

I don't know much about Capitalism, but I do know about Democracy and freedom, and if Capitalism may change in many, many ways, I'm not really very much interested in Capitalism.

I feel quite sure that what the American people lack is knowledge.

I'm intensely anxious to preserve the freedom that gives you the right to think and to act and to talk as you please. That I think is essential to happiness and the life of the people.

I think the thing we must look for actually is a growth in our people and in whoever comes in a quality of courage to tell our people just what world conditions are.

No one can move without some leadership.

I feel quite sure that the American people, if they have knowledge and leadership, can meet any crisis just as well as they met it over and over again in the past.

No one won the last war, and no one will win the next war.

Happiness is not a goal...it's a by-product of a life well lived.

Life was meant to be lived, and curiosity must be kept alive. One must never, for whatever reason, turn his back on life.

Do what you feel in your heart to be right – for you’ll be criticized anyway.

Friendship with oneself is all important, because without it one cannot be friends with anyone else in the world.

Light a candle instead of cursing the darkness.