The important thing is neither your nationality nor the religion you professed, but how your faith translated itself in your life. — Eleanor Roosevelt Copy Share Image
Since everybody is an individual, nobody can be you. You are unique. No one can tell you how to use your time.… — Eleanor Roosevelt Copy Share Image
Many people will walk in and out of your life, but only true friends will leave footprints in your heart — Eleanor Roosevelt Copy Share Image
“I could not, at any age, be content to take my place by the fireside and simply look on. Life was meant… — Eleanor Roosevelt Copy Share Image
Life must be lived and curiosity kept alive. One must never, for whatever reason, turn his back on life. — Eleanor Roosevelt Copy Share Image
You rarely achieve finality. If you did, life would be over, but as you strive new visions open before you, new possibilities… — Eleanor Roosevelt Copy Share Image
A democratic form of government, a democratic way of life, presupposes free public education over a long period; it presupposes also an… — Eleanor Roosevelt Copy Share Image
You can never really live anyone else's life, not even your child's. The influence you exert is through your own life, and… — Eleanor Roosevelt Copy Share Image
Most women, I think, though they may complain a little about this, would agree that meeting the needs of others is not… — Eleanor Roosevelt Copy Share Image
You never have a normal family relationship in the White House; it's an impossible thing to have. You live in a goldfish… — Eleanor Roosevelt Copy Share Image
There is no more precious experience in life than friendship. And I am not forgetting love and marriage as I write this;… — Eleanor Roosevelt Copy Share Image
The greatest tragedy of old age is the tendency for the old to feel unneeded, unwanted, and of no use to anyone;… — Eleanor Roosevelt Copy Share Image
The motivating force of the theory of a Democratic way of life is still a belief that as individuals we live cooperatively,… — Eleanor Roosevelt Copy Share Image
It seems to me of great importance to teach children respect for life. Towards this end, experiments on living animals in classrooms… — Eleanor Roosevelt Copy Share Image
I have always seen life personally; my interest or sympathy or indignation is not aroused by an abstract cause but by the… — Eleanor Roosevelt Copy Share Image
Probably the happiest period in life most frequently is in middle age, when the eager passions of youth are cooled, and the… — Eleanor Roosevelt Copy Share Image
Your ambition should be to get as much life out of living as you possibly can, as much enjoyment, as much interest,… — Eleanor Roosevelt Copy Share Image
the term 'young adults' which is so often used today seems to me a misnomer, and one which, if taken seriously, may… — 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
