No human being can ever 'own' another, whether in friendship, love, marriage, or parenthood. — Eleanor Roosevelt Copy Share Image
I think it is impossible for one human being really to know another without first knowing and being at peace with himself. — Eleanor Roosevelt Copy Share Image
It seems to me that it is the basic right of any human being to work. — Eleanor Roosevelt Copy Share Image
All human beings are born free and equal in dignity and rights... — Eleanor Roosevelt Copy Share Image
If we want a free and peaceful world, if we want to make the deserts bloom and man grow to greater dignity… — Eleanor Roosevelt Copy Share Image
Feelings, too, are facts. Emotion is a fact. Human experience is a fact. It is often possible to gain more real insight… — Eleanor Roosevelt Copy Share Image
Basically we could not have peace, or an atmosphere in which peace could grow, unless we recognized the rights of individual human… — Eleanor Roosevelt Copy Share Image
Sometimes it is extremely good for you to forget that there is anything in the world which needs to be done, and… — Eleanor Roosevelt Copy Share Image
No human being can ever "own" another, whether in friendship, love, marriage or parenthood. Many human relationships have been ruined and happiness… — Eleanor Roosevelt Copy Share Image
There are three fundamentals for human happiness - love and faith, and work which will produce at least a minimum of material… — Eleanor Roosevelt Copy Share Image
This freedom of which men speak, for which they fight, seems to some people a perilous thing. It has to be earned… — Eleanor Roosevelt Copy Share Image
If human beings can be trained for cruelty and greed and a belief in power which comes through hate and fear and… — Eleanor Roosevelt Copy Share Image
It's your life - but only if you make it so. The standards by which you live must be your own standards,… — Eleanor Roosevelt Copy Share Image
Mahatma Gandhi I would say had perhaps a greater spiritual quality whereas Winston Churchill had besides the courage, ability and above everything… — Eleanor Roosevelt Copy Share Image
Those of us who believe in the right of any human being to belong to whatever church he sees fit, and to… — Eleanor Roosevelt Copy Share Image
The kind of propaganda that some of the religious groups, aided and abetted by the opposition, put forth in that campaign utterly… — Eleanor Roosevelt Copy Share Image
All human beings have failings, all human beings have needs and temptations and stresses. Men and women who live together through long… — Eleanor Roosevelt Copy Share Image
Ability is not something to be saved, like money, in the hope that you can draw interest on it. The interest comes… — Eleanor Roosevelt Copy Share Image
My experience has been that work is almost the best way to pull oneself out of the depths. — Eleanor Roosevelt Copy Share
experience should teach us that it is always the unexpected that does occur. — Eleanor Roosevelt Copy Share
To be mature you have to realize what you value most... Not to arrive at a clear understanding of one's own values is a… — Eleanor Roosevelt Copy Share
I'm enormously interested in freedom and retaining the right to have whatever economy we want and to shape it as we want and a… — Eleanor Roosevelt Copy Share
When you look fear in the face, you are able to say to yourself, 'I lived through this horror. I can take the next… — Eleanor Roosevelt Copy Share
The destiny of human rights is in the hands of all our citizens in all our communities. — Eleanor Roosevelt Copy Share
You can never really live anyone else's life, not even your child's. The influence you exert is through your own life, and what you've… — Eleanor Roosevelt Copy Share
“One of the things I believe most intensely is that every child’s why should be answered with care—and with respect. If you do not… — Eleanor Roosevelt Copy Share
What we must learn to do is to create unbreakable bonds between the sciences and the humanities. We cannot procrastinate. The world of the… — Eleanor Roosevelt Copy Share
Never allow a person to tell you no who doesn't have the power to say yes. — Eleanor Roosevelt Copy Share
Do not stop thinking of life as an adventure. You have no security unless you can live bravely, excitingly, imaginatively; unless you can choose… — Eleanor Roosevelt Copy Share
We stand today at the threshold of a great event both in the life of the United Nations and in the life of mankind,… — Eleanor Roosevelt Copy Share
All of us ... should remember that no amount of flag-waving, pledging allegiance, or fervent singing of the national anthem is evidence that we… — Eleanor Roosevelt Copy Share
If we want a free and peaceful world, if we want to make the deserts bloom and man grow to greater dignity as a… — Eleanor Roosevelt Copy Share
