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
First of my own personal requirements is inner calm. This, I think, is an essential. One of the secrets of using your… — Eleanor Roosevelt Copy Share Image
The film industry is a great industry, with infinite possibilities for good and bad. Its primary purpose is to entertain people. On… — Eleanor Roosevelt Copy Share Image
To a certain extent I don't see any real need for socialism in the United States immediately, but things change and it… — Eleanor Roosevelt Copy Share Image
The word communist, of course, has become a rallying cry for certain people here just as the word Jew was in Hitler's… — Eleanor Roosevelt Copy Share Image
We women are callow fledglings as compared with the wise old birds who manipulate the political machinery, and we still hesitate to… — Eleanor Roosevelt Copy Share Image
... many of the things which we deplore, the prevalence of tuberculosis, the mounting record of crime in certain sections of the… — Eleanor Roosevelt Copy Share Image
I was perfectly certain that I had nothing to offer of an individual nature and that my only chance of doing my… — 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
To me who dreamed so much as a child, who made a dreamworld in which I was the heroine of an unending… — 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
Success is not something that can be measured or worn on a watch or hung on a wall. It is not the… — 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
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
For instance, it is certain that women do not want a woman for President. Nor would they have the slightest confidence in… — 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 Image
experience should teach us that it is always the unexpected that does occur. — Eleanor Roosevelt Copy Share Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
The destiny of human rights is in the hands of all our citizens in all our communities. — 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 what you've… — Eleanor Roosevelt Copy Share Image
“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 Image
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 Image
Never allow a person to tell you no who doesn't have the power to say yes. — Eleanor Roosevelt Copy Share Image
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 Image
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 Image
