Each generation supposes that the world was simpler for the one before it. — Eleanor Roosevelt Copy Share Image
The world conspires to help those who are in love with the beauty of their dreams. — Eleanor Roosevelt Copy Share Image
Some people are going to leave a mark on this world, while others will leave a stain. — Eleanor Roosevelt Copy Share Image
Nobody else is going to do the things which are yours to be done in the world. — Eleanor Roosevelt Copy Share Image
All the water in the world cannot drown you unless it gets inside of you. — Eleanor Roosevelt Copy Share Image
Hate and force cannot be in just a part of the world without having an effect on the rest of it. — Eleanor Roosevelt Copy Share Image
We cannot exist as a little island of well-being in a world where two-thirds of the people go to bed hungry every… — 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
I learned then that practically no one in the world is entirely bad or entirely good, and that motives are often more… — Eleanor Roosevelt Copy Share Image
Friendship with ones self is all important, because without it one cannot be friends with anyone else in the world. — Eleanor Roosevelt Copy Share Image
The basis of world peace is the teaching which runs through almost all the great religions of the world. Love thy neighbor… — Eleanor Roosevelt Copy Share Image
The mobilization of world opinion and methods of negotiation should be developed and used by every nation in order to strengthen the… — Eleanor Roosevelt Copy Share Image
We face the future fortified with the lessons we have learned from the past. It is today that we must create the… — Eleanor Roosevelt Copy Share Image
The Marines I have seen around the world have the cleanest bodies, the filthiest minds, the highest morale, and the lowest morals… — Eleanor Roosevelt Copy Share Image
I have never believed that war settled anything satisfactorily, but I am not entirely sure that some times there are certain situations… — Eleanor Roosevelt Copy Share Image
How can we be such fools as to go on senselessly taking human life in this way? Why the women in every… — Eleanor Roosevelt Copy Share Image
I kept praying that I might be able to prevent a repetition of this stupidity called war. I have tried to keep… — Eleanor Roosevelt Copy Share Image
Mozart, who was buried in a pauper’s grave, was one of the greatest successes we know of, a man who in his… — Eleanor Roosevelt Copy Share Image
Where, after all, do universal human rights begin? In small places, close to home - so close and so small that they… — Eleanor Roosevelt Copy Share Image
what we need in the world is manners ... I think that if, instead of preaching brotherly love, we preached good manners,… — Eleanor Roosevelt Copy Share Image
What we must learn to do is to create unbreakable bonds between the sciences and the humanities. We cannot procrastinate. The world… — Eleanor Roosevelt Copy Share Image
I believe in active citizenship, for men and women equally, as a simple matter of right and justice. I believe we will… — Eleanor Roosevelt Copy Share Image
Where, after all, do universal human rights begin? In small places, close to home - so close and so small that they… — Eleanor Roosevelt Copy Share Image
A mature person is one who does not think only in absolutes, who is able to be objective even when deeply stirred… — Eleanor Roosevelt Copy Share Image
All of us in this country give lip service to the ideals set forth in the Bill of Rights and emphasized by… — Eleanor Roosevelt Copy Share Image
You in the unions do not yet represent all of labor. But I hope some day you will, because I believe that… — Eleanor Roosevelt Copy Share Image
Organize first for knowledge, first with the object of making us know ourselves as a nation, for we have to do that… — Eleanor Roosevelt Copy Share Image
The separation of church and state is extremely important to any of us who holds to the original traditions of our nation.… — Eleanor Roosevelt Copy Share Image
The basis of world peace is the teaching which runs through almost all the great religions of the world. "Love thy neighbor… — Eleanor Roosevelt Copy Share Image
I think the thing we must look for actually is a growth in our people and in whoever comes in a quality… — Eleanor Roosevelt Copy Share Image
Most of the work that's done in the world gets done by people who weren't feeling all that well at the time… — Eleanor Roosevelt Copy Share Image
There is a widespread understanding among the people of this nation, and probably among the people of the world, that there is… — Eleanor Roosevelt Copy Share Image
When all is said and done, and statesmen discuss the future of the world, the fact remains that people fight these wars. — Eleanor Roosevelt Copy Share Image
If we fail to meet our problems here, no one else in the world will do so. If we fail, the heart… — Eleanor Roosevelt Copy Share Image
Success must include two things: the development of an individual to his utmost potentiality and a contribution of some kind to one's… — 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
