Eleanor Roosevelt Quotes
Eleanor Roosevelt Quotes
A stumbling block to the pessimist is a stepping-stone to the optimist.
It takes as much energy to wish as it does to plan.
A good leader inspires people to have confidence in the leader; a great leader inspires people to have confidence in themselves.
I believe that anyone can conquer fear by doing the things he fears to do.
Great minds discuss ideas, average minds discuss events, and small minds discuss people.
The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams.
Life must be lived and curiosity kept alive. One must never, for whatever reason, turn his back on life.
As for accomplishments, I just did what I had to do as things came along.
You will be amused that when Mr. Dulles said goodbye to me this morning he said ‘I feel I must tell you that when you were appointed I thought it terrible & now I think your work here has been fine!’ So – against the odds the women inch forward, but I’m rather old to be carrying on the fight . . . .
Life is like a parachute jump, you’ve got to get it right the first time.
You wouldn’t worry so much about what others think of you if you realized how seldom they do.
It is better to light a candle than curse the darkness.
It is better to light a candle than curse the darkness.
Courage is exhilarating.
We are afraid to care too much, for fear that the other person does not care at all.
Life must be lived and curiosity kept alive. One must never, for whatever reason, turn his back on life.
Do not stop thinking of life as an adventure. You have no security unless you can live bravely, excitingly, imaginatively; unless you can choose a challenge instead of competence.
You wouldn’t worry so much about what others think of you if you realized how seldom they do.
When you cease to make a contribution, you begin to die.
It takes courage to love, but pain through love is the purifying fire which those who love generously know.
A mature person is one who does not think only in absolutes, who is able to be objective even when deeply stirred emotionally, who has learned that there is both good and bad in all people and in all things, and who walks humbly and deals charitably with the circumstances of life, knowing that in this world no one is all-knowing and therefore all of us need both love and charity.
It is not fair to ask of others what you are not willing to do yourself.
Remember always that you not only have the right to be an individual, you have an obligation to be one.
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Eleanor Roosevelt Quotes on Human Rights
We stand today at the threshold of a great event both in the life of the United Nations and in the life of mankind, that is the approval by the General Assembly of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights.
All human beings are born free and equal in dignity and rights.
The destiny of human rights is in the hands of all our citizens in all our communities.
Inspirational Eleanor Roosevelt Quotes
Work is always an antidote to depression.
A stumbling block to the pessimist is a stepping-stone to the optimist.
I am who I am today because of the choices I made yesterday.
Eleanor Roosevelt Quotes on Leadership
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.
A good leader inspires people to have confidence in the leader; a great leader inspires people to have confidence in themselves.
To handle yourself, use your head; to handle others, use your heart.
Eleanor Roosevelt Quotes on Badass Speed
America is all about speed. Hot, nasty, badass speed.
Eleanor Roosevelt Quotes Talladega Nights
America is all about speed. Hot, nasty, badass speed.
Short Friendship Quotes by Eleanor Roosevelt
Friendship with oneself is all important.
Friendship with ones self is all important, because without it one cannot be friends with anyone else in the world.
Well-Behaved Women Seldom Make History
Motivational Eleanor Roosevelt Quotes
You have to accept whatever comes and the only important thing is that you meet it with courage and with the best that you have to give.
People grow through experience if they meet life honestly and courageously. This is how the character is built.
We gain strength, and courage, and confidence by each experience in which we really stop to look fear in the face… we must do that which we think we cannot.
Eleanor Roosevelt Dreams Quotes
The American Dream can no more remain static than can the American nation…. We cannot any longer take an old approach to world problems. They aren’t the same problems. It isn’t the same world. We must not adopt the methods of our ancestors; instead, we must emulate that pioneer quality in our ancestors that made them attempt new methods for a New World.
The world conspires to help those who are in love with the beauty of their dreams.
The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams.
Eleanor Roosevelt Quotes at Pearl Harbor Memorial
Visitors to Pearl Harbor today are stirred by the USS Arizona Memorial, the hull of the sunken ship from which our nation’s flag flies. On the path to the memorial, one can see the poem that First Lady Eleanor Roosevelt carried with her during those long years of horror and suffering.
Eleanor Roosevelt Quotes on Volunteering
In American society today, we need to have volunteerism. I truly believe that it is the glue that will hold us together and it will be the energy that will take us into the 21st century.
Eleanor Roosevelt Quotes Yesterday is History
Yesterday is history, tomorrow is a mystery, today is
a gift of God, which is why we call it the present.
Eleanor Roosevelt Education Quotes
One of the best ways of enslaving a people is to keep them from education. A democratic form of government, a democratic way of life, presupposes free public education over a long period; it presupposes also an education for personal responsibility that too often is neglected.
All of life is a constant education.
Anyone who knows history, particularly the history of Europe, will, I think, recognize that the domination of education or of government by any one particular religious faith is never a happy arrangement for the people.
Eleanor Roosevelt Quotes Live Life
Life has got to be lived – that’s all there is to it.
reach out eagerly and without fear for newer and richer experience.
The purpose of life is to live it, to taste experience to the utmost, to
Tomorrow is a mystery. Today is a gift. That is why it is called the present.
Eleanor Roosevelt Quotes about Life
Life must be lived and curiosity kept alive. One must never, for whatever reason, turn his back on life.
People grow through experience if they meet life honestly and courageously. This is how character is built.
It’s your life-but only if you make it so.
Love Quotes by Eleanor Roosevelt
The basis of world peace is the teaching which runs through almost all the great religions of the world. Love thy neighbor as thyself.
The giving of love is an education in itself.
After the discovery in 1918 of love letters revealing that Franklin was involved with Lucy Mercer: The bottom dropped out of my own particular world, I faced myself, my surroundings, my world, honestly for the first time.
Eleanor Roosevelt Quotes Simple Minds
Great minds discuss ideas; average minds discuss events; small minds discuss people.
Eleanor Roosevelt Quotes on Motherhood
Furnish an example, stop preaching, stop shielding, don’t prevent self-reliance and initiative, allow your children to develop along their own lines.
I have often felt that I cheated my children a little. I was never so totally theirs as most mothers are. I gave to audiences what belonged to my children, got back from audiences the love my children longed to give me.
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.
Eleanor Roosevelt Quotes on Women’s Rights
People grow through experience if they meet life honestly and courageously.
For the person who is unwilling to grow up, the person who does not want to carry is own weight, this is a frightening prospect.
Eleanor Roosevelt Quotes on Peace
Peace will not be built, however, by people with bitterness in their hearts.
We will have to want peace, want it enough to pay for it, pay for it in our own behavior and in material ways. We will have to want it enough to overcome our lethargy and go out and find all those in other countries who want it as much as we do.
For it isn’t enough to talk of peace. One must believe it. And it isn’t enough to believe in it. One must work at it.
Eleanor Roosevelt Quotes on Personal Responsibility
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.
The choices we make are ultimately our responsibility.
A democratic form of government, a democratic way of life, presupposes free public education over a long period; it presupposes also an education for personal responsibility that too often is neglected.
Eleanor Roosevelt Quotes on Self Respect
No one can make you feel inferior without your consent.
Eleanor Roosevelt Quotes on Women
Every now and then I am reminded that even though the need for being a feminist is gradually disappearing in this country, we haven’t quite reached the millennium.
Women must become more conscious of themselves as women and of their ability to function as a group. At the same time they must try to wipe from men=s consciousness the need to consider them as a group or as women in their everyday activities, especially as workers in industry or the professions.
In numbers there is strength, and we in America must help the women of the world.
Eleanor Roosevelt Quotes on Friendship
Friendship with oneself is all important.
Friendship with ones self is all important, because without it one cannot be friends with anyone else in the world.
It is a curious thing in human experience, but to live through a period of stress and sorrow with another person, creates a bond which nothing seems able to break.
Eleanor Roosevelt Quotes on Fear
Do one thing every day that scares you.
We need not fear any isms if our democracy is achieving the ends for which it was established…
A woman is like a tea bag – you can’t tell how strong she is until you put her in hot water.
Eleanor Roosevelt Quotes on Freedom
At all times, day by day, we have to continue fighting for freedom of religion, freedom of speech, and freedom from want… for these are things that must be gained in peace as well as in war.
This freedom of which men speak, for which they fight, seems to some people a perilous thing. It has to be earned at a bitter cost and then — it has to be lived with. For freedom makes a huge requirement of every human being. With freedom comes responsibility.
