Human resources are the most valuable assets the world has. They are all needed desperately. — Eleanor Roosevelt Copy Share Image
We must be willing to learn the lesson that cooperation may imply compromise, but if it brings a world advance it is… — Eleanor Roosevelt Copy Share Image
Our obligation to the world is, primarily, our obligation to our own future. Obviously, we cannot develop beyond a certain point unless… — 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
Of all the nations in the Western world, the United States, with the most money and the most time, has the fewest… — Eleanor Roosevelt Copy Share Image
... the next war will be a war in which people not armies will suffer, and our boasted, hard-earned civilization will do… — Eleanor Roosevelt Copy Share Image
It is very difficult to have a free, fair and honest press anywhere in the world. In the first place, as a… — Eleanor Roosevelt Copy Share Image
A trait no other nation seems to possess in quite the same degree as we do namely, a feeling of almost childish… — Eleanor Roosevelt Copy Share Image
Our real battlefield today is Asia and our real battle is the one between democracy and communism. . . . We have… — 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
We mast show by our behavior that we believe in equality and justice and that our religion teaches faith and love and… — Eleanor Roosevelt Copy Share Image
A successful life for a man or for a woman seems to me to lie in the knowledge that one has developed… — Eleanor Roosevelt Copy Share Image
If many of our young people have lost the excitement of the early settlers, who had a country to explore and develop,… — Eleanor Roosevelt Copy Share Image
The American Dream can no more remain static than can the American nation… We cannot any longer take an old approach to… — Eleanor Roosevelt Copy Share Image
We can no longer oversimplify. We can no longer build lazy and false stereotypes: Americans are like this, Russians are like that,… — Eleanor Roosevelt Copy Share Image
I have a great belief in spiritual force, but I think we have to realize that spiritual force alone has to have… — 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
Up to a certain point it is good for us to know that there are people in the world who will give… — Eleanor Roosevelt Copy Share Image
What we apparently have failed to grasp is that, in this new world in which we live, the collective hunger of great… — Eleanor Roosevelt Copy Share Image
The most unhappy people in the world are those who face the days without knowing what to do with their time. But… — Eleanor Roosevelt Copy Share Image
After the discovery in 1918 of love letters revealing that Franklin was involved with Lucy Mercer: The bottom dropped out of my… — Eleanor Roosevelt Copy Share Image
I believe that it is essential to our leadership in the world and to the development of true democracy in our country… — 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
