Eleanor Roosevelt Quotes
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The vengeful hag is played by Ingrid Bergman, which is like casting Eleanor Roosevelt as Lizzie Borden.
— Kenneth Tynan
The choices we make are ultimately our responsibility.
— Eleanor Roosevelt
Pit race against race, religion against religion, prejudice against prejudice. Divide and conquer! We must not let that happen here.
— Eleanor Roosevelt
I could not at any age be content to take my place in a corner by the fireside and simply look on.
— Eleanor Roosevelt
Will people ever be wise enough to refuse to follow bad leaders or to take away the freedom of other people?
— Eleanor Roosevelt
Ambition is pitiless. Any merit that it cannot use it finds despicable.
— Eleanor Roosevelt
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— Eleanor Roosevelt
There is in every country an antipathy to the foreigner ...
— Eleanor Roosevelt
One has to live in Washington to know what a city of rumors it is.
— Eleanor Roosevelt
You have to accept whatever comes, and the only important thing is that you meet it with the best you have to give.
— Eleanor Roosevelt
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.
— Eleanor Roosevelt
The world conspires to help those who are in love with the beauty of their dreams.
— Eleanor Roosevelt
When will our consciences grow so tender that we will act to prevent human misery rather than avenge it?
— Eleanor Roosevelt
Of course, I do not believe in having everyone who is a liberal called a communist, or everyone who is conservative called a fascist.
— Eleanor Roosevelt
You'll be damned if you do, and damned if you don't.
— Eleanor Roosevelt
You get strength and courage, when you stop to look fear in the face.
— Eleanor Roosevelt
Remember, no one can make you feel inferior without being related to you and repeatedly questioning why you're in nonprofit.
— Eleanor Roosevelt
No writing has any real value which is not the expression of genuine thought and feeling.
— Eleanor Roosevelt
I consider those are rich who are doing something they feel worthwhile and which they enjoy doing.
— Eleanor Roosevelt
Remember always that you not only have the right to be an individual you have an obligation to be one.
— Eleanor Roosevelt
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!
— Eleanor Roosevelt
The Bible illustrated by Dore occupied many of my hours - and I think probably gave me many nightmares.
— Eleanor Roosevelt
When all is said and done, and statesmen discuss the future of the world, the fact remains that people fight these wars.
— Eleanor Roosevelt
All of life is a constant education.
— Eleanor Roosevelt
We need not fear any isms if our democracy is achieving the ends for which it was established ...
— Eleanor Roosevelt
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[On going into politics:] My husband went to bed with Debbie Reynolds and he woke up with Eleanor Roosevelt.
— Barbara Boxer
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.
— Eleanor Roosevelt
The important thing is neither your nationality nor the religion you professed, but how your faith translated itself in your life.
— Eleanor Roosevelt
The war for freedom will never really be won because the price of freedom is constant vigilance over ourselves and over our Government.
— Eleanor Roosevelt
Only I can let you disrepect me! Eleanore Roosevelt
— Eleanor Roosevelt
It is curious how much more interest can be evoked by a mixture of gossip, romance and mystery than by facts.
— Eleanor Roosevelt
When you cease to make a contribution, you begin to die.
— Eleanor Roosevelt
You should always own a black dress because no one ever remembers a black dress.
— Eleanor Roosevelt
This living in a democracy is a problem, isn't it?
— Eleanor Roosevelt
Think as little as possible about yourself and as much as possible about other people.
— Eleanor Roosevelt
being acquisitive on a large scale, cannot have value if it is bought at the expense of others.
— Eleanor Roosevelt
Be confident, not certain
— Eleanor Roosevelt
Comparison is the thief of all joy.
— Eleanor Roosevelt
People can only make you inferior with your consent.
— Eleanor Roosevelt
Or perhaps one can learn only by one's own mistakes. The essential thing is to learn. Learning and living.
— Eleanor Roosevelt
Conservation of land and conservation of people frequently go hand in hand.
— Eleanor Roosevelt
Life was meant to be lived, and curiosity must be kept alive. One must never, for whatever reason, turn his back on life.
— Eleanor Roosevelt
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.
— Eleanor Roosevelt
Power corrupts. Knowledge is power. Study hard. Be evil.
— Eleanor Roosevelt
We need our radicals.
— Eleanor Roosevelt
Every woman in public life needs to develop skin as tough as rhinoceros hide,
— Eleanor Roosevelt
We gain courage and wisdom from every instance in which we stop to look fear in the face.
— Eleanor Roosevelt
We must do that which we think we cannot.
— Eleanor Roosevelt
Somehow we must be able to show people that democracy is not about words, but action.
— Eleanor Roosevelt
A society in which there is widespread economic insecurity can turn freedom into a barren and vapid right for millions of people.
— Eleanor Roosevelt
The constant pressure to bring about conformity is a dangerous thing.
— Eleanor Roosevelt
Never mistake knowledge for wisdom. One helps you make a living; the other helps you make a life.
— Eleanor Roosevelt
Staying aloof is not a solution, it is a cowardly evasion.
— Eleanor Roosevelt
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Mr. [Richard M.] Nixon never has anything but hindsight.
— Eleanor Roosevelt
Light a candle instead of cursing the darkness.
— Eleanor Roosevelt
Character building begins in our infancy and continues until death.
— Eleanor Roosevelt
When Franklin says yes, yes, yes, he isn't agreeing with you. He's just listening to you.
— Gore Vidal
Get out of the way as quickly as you're not needed.
— Eleanor Roosevelt
The only things one can admire at length are those one admires without knowing why.
— Eleanor Roosevelt
If life were predictable it would cease to be life,and be without flavor
— Eleanor Roosevelt
More people are ruined by victory, I imagine, than be defeat.
— Eleanor Roosevelt
The destiny of human rights is in the hands of all our citizens in all our communities.
— Eleanor Roosevelt
In business courtesy and efficiency have a symbiotic relationship.
— Eleanor Roosevelt
What one has to do usually can be done.
— Eleanor Roosevelt
For our own success to be real, it must contribute to the success of others.
— Eleanor Roosevelt
It is better to light a single candle than to curse the darkness.
— Eleanor Roosevelt
It is often the people who refuse to assume any responsibility who are apt to be the sharpest critics of those who do.
— Eleanor Roosevelt
If you lose money you lose much,If you lose friends you lose more,
If you lose faith you lose all. — Eleanor Roosevelt
Those who attack always do so with greater fervor than those who defend.
— Eleanor Roosevelt
Life has got to be lived - that's all there is to it.
— Eleanor Roosevelt
We do not move forward by curtailing people's liberty because we are afraid of what they may do or say.
— Eleanor Roosevelt
If you have any interests you can gain a wider audience for those interests while the goldfish bowl is yours!
— Eleanor Roosevelt
Do something that scares you everyday.
— Melina Marchetta
Anyone who has gone through great suffering is bound to have a greater sympathy and understanding of the problems of mankind.
— Eleanor Roosevelt
A candle can bring light to a dungeon but it can also be used to light a deadly marijuana cigarette.
— Eleanor Roosevelt
Hate and force cannot be in just a part of the world without having an effect on the rest of it.
— Eleanor Roosevelt
I have always felt that it was important that everyone who was a worker join a labor organization.
— Eleanor Roosevelt
Every woman wants to be first to someone sometime in her life and that desire is the explanation for many strange things women do.
— Eleanor Roosevelt
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.
— Eleanor Roosevelt
Have convictions. Be friendly. Stick to your beliefs as they stick to theirs. Work as hard as they do.
— Eleanor Roosevelt
The freedom of man, I contend, is the freedom to eat.
— Eleanor Roosevelt
I think that somehow, we learn who we really are and then live with that decision.
— Eleanor Roosevelt
Tomorrow is a mystery. Today is a gift. That is why it is called the present.
— Eleanor Roosevelt
I think it is impossible for one human being really to know another without first knowing and being at peace with himself.
— Eleanor Roosevelt
To be a citizen in a democracy, a human being must be given a healthy start.
— Eleanor Roosevelt
What you don't do can be a destructive force.
— Eleanor Roosevelt
The word liberal comes from the word free. We must cherish and honor the word free or it will cease to apply to us.
— Eleanor Roosevelt
Actors are one family over the entire world.
— Eleanor Roosevelt
Well-behaved women seldom make history.
— Laurel Thatcher Ulrich
Do not be afraid of mistakes, provided you do not make the same one twice.
— Eleanor Roosevelt
The only advantage of not being too good a housekeeper is that your guests are so pleased to feel how very much better they are.
— Eleanor Roosevelt
To handle yourself, use your head; to handle others, use your heart.
— Eleanor Roosevelt
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.
— Eleanor Roosevelt
This is a time for action - not for war, but for mobilization of every bit of peace machinery.
— Eleanor Roosevelt
Some friends leave footprints in your heart
— Eleanor Roosevelt
Nothing we learn in this world is ever wasted.
— Eleanor Roosevelt
We have reached a point today where labor-saving devices are good only when they do not throw the worker out of his job.
— Eleanor Roosevelt
Experience should teach us that it is always the unexpected that does occur.
— Eleanor Roosevelt
