Eleanor Roosevelt Quotes

Once I had a rose named after me and I was very flattered. But I was not pleased to read the description in the catalogue: "No good in a bed, but fine up against a wall.

You can not live at all if you do not learn to adapt yourself to your life as it happens to be.

You have to accept whatever comes, and the only important thing is that you meet it with the best you have to give.

Good leaders inspire people to have confidence in their leader. Great leaders inspire people to have confidence in themselves.

If he could not go out into the world, the world could come to him.

The Diary of a Young Girl - This book fills you with sadness. I like this book

And even when success comes, as I am sure it will, bear in mind that there are more quiet and enviable joys than to be among the most sought after women at a ball...

We have to make these young people (of the Depression) feel that they are necessary. (They should be given) "certain things for which youth craves – the chance for self-sacrifice for an ideal.

You not only have a right to be an individual. You have a responsibility.

The habit of mobility had become ingrained.

She feared that she would become a slave to superficial, symbolic duties.

If you want a world ruled by law and not by force you must build up, from the very grassroots, a respect for law.

I think, at a child's birth, if a mother could ask a fairy godmother to endow it with the most useful gift, that gift would be curiosity.

...no one can afford not to be a man. No position can compensate for coming face to face with a robot when you are alone.

It is often the people who refuse to assume any responsibility who are apt to be the sharpest critics of those who do.

Life has got to be lived - that's all there is to it. At seventy I would say the advantage is that you take life more calmly. You know that 'this too shall pass!'

Character building begins in our infancy and continues until death.

When you have decided what you believe what you feel must be done have the courage to stand alone and be counted.

Somehow we learn who we really are and then live with that decision.

The only man who makes no mistakes is the man who never does anything.

Do not be afraid of mistakes providing you do not make the same one twice.

Friendship with oneself is all-important because without it one cannot be friends with anyone else.

For it isn't enough to talk about peace. One must believe in it. And it isn't enough to believe in it. One must work at it.

If we want a free and peaceful world if we want to make the deserts bloom and man grow to greater dignity as a human being-we can do it.

When you cease to make a contribution you begin to die.

Life has got to be lived-that's all that there is to it.

When you cease to make a contribution you begin to die.

When you get to the end of your rope tie a knot in it and hang on.

It isn't enough to talk about peace one must believe in it. And it isn't enough to believe in it one must work at it.

This I know. This I believe with all my heart. If we want a free and peaceful world if we want to make the deserts bloom and man grow to greater dignity as a human being- we can do it!

This I know. This I believe with all my heart. If we want a free and peaceful world if we want to make the deserts bloom and man grow to greater dignity as a human being-we can do it!

Remember always that you have not only the right to be an individual you have an obligation to be one.

Criticism ... makes very little dent upon me unless I think there is some real justification and something should be done.

I think somehow we learn who we really are and then live with that decision.

I'm glad I never feel important it does complicate life.

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

In the long run we shape our lives and we shape ourselves. The process never ends until we die. And the choices we make are ultimately our own responsibility.

You gain strength courage and confidence by every experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face.... You must do the thing you think you cannot do.

I believe that anyone can conquer fear by doing the things he fears to do provided he keeps doing them until he gets a record of successful experiences behind him.

You have to accept whatever comes and the only important thing is that you meet it with the best you have to give.

I think at a child's birth if a mother could ask a fairy godmother to endow it with the most useful gift that gift should be curiosity.

Happiness is not a goal it is a by-product.

One's philosophy is not best expressed in words it is expressed in the choices one makes... and the choices we make are ultimately our responsibility.

Great minds discuss ideas average minds discuss events small minds discuss people.

When life is too easy for us, we must beware or we may not be ready to meet the blows which sooner or later come to everyone, rich or poor.