Eleanor Roosevelt Quotes
Top 100 wise famous quotes and sayings by Eleanor Roosevelt
Eleanor Roosevelt Famous Quotes & Sayings
Discover top inspirational quotes from Eleanor Roosevelt on Wise Famous Quotes.
You [future first ladies] will feel that you are no longer clothing yourself, you are dressing a public monument.
The Bible illustrated by Dore occupied many of my hours - and I think probably gave me many nightmares.
I have a great objection to seeing anyone, particularly anyone whom I care about, lose his self-control.
We face the future fortified with the lessons we have learned from the past. It is today that we must create the world of the future.
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.
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.
Spiritual leadership should remain spiritual leadership and the temporal power should not become too important in any church.
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
It is often the people who refuse to assume any responsibility who are apt to be the sharpest critics of those who do.
I have often thought that less is expected of the president of a great corporation than of an American wife.
Any citizen should be willing to give all that he has to give his country in work or sacrifice in times of crisis.
If we fail to meet our problems here, no one else in the world will do so. If we fail, the heart goes out of progressives throughout the world.
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.
I am opposed to 'right to work' legislation because it does nothing for working people, but instead gives employers the right to exploit labor.
Have convictions. Be friendly. Stick to your beliefs as they stick to theirs. Work as hard as they do.
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.
Everyone has the right to work, to free choice, to employment, to just and favorable conditions of work and to protectior against unemployment.
You achieve strength, braveness and confidence by each experience in which you really halt to search dread during the deal with
There is not human being from whom we cannot learn something if we are interested enough to dig deep.
We need emotional outlets in this country, and the more artistic people we develop the better it will be for us as a nation.
If man is to be liberated to enjoy more leisure, he must also be prepared to enjoy this leisure fully and creatively.
If the use of leisure time is confined to looking at TV for a few extra hours every day, we will deteriorate as a people.
I have never felt that anything really mattered but knowing that you stood for the things in which you believed and had done the very best you could.
Furnish an example, stop preaching, stop shielding, don't prevent self-reliance and initiative, allow your children to develop along thier own lines.
A society in which there is widespread economic insecurity can turn freedom into a barren and vapid right for millions of people.
The mobilization of world opinion and methods of negotiation should be developed and used by every nation in order to strengthen the United Nations.
Everyone has the right to rest and leisure, including reasonable limitation of working hours and periodic holidays with pay.
We have reached a point today where labor-saving devices are good only when they do not throw the worker out of his job.
It is not that you set the individual apart from society but that you recognize in any society that the individual must have rights that are guarded.
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.
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.
A guest is really good or bad because of the host or hostess who makes being a guest an easy or a difficult task.
I know that we will be the sufferers if we let great wrongs occur without exerting ourselves to correct them.