I could never say in the morning, "I have a headache and cannot do thus and so". Headache or no headache, thus… — Eleanor Roosevelt Copy Share Image
It is always disagreeable to take stands. It is always easier to compromise, always easier to let things go. To many women,… — Eleanor Roosevelt Copy Share Image
I have never felt that anything really mattered but knowing that you stood for the things in which you believed and had… — Eleanor Roosevelt Copy Share Image
Nothing was ever accomplished by anyone who said 'It can't be done.' — Eleanor Roosevelt Copy Share Image
Someone once asked me what I regarded as the three most important requirements for happiness. My answer was: A feeling that you… — Eleanor Roosevelt Copy Share Image
Criticism ... makes very little dent upon me, unless I think there is some real justification and something should be done. — 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
When you have decided what you believe, what you feel must be done, have the courage to stand alone and be counted — 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
Nothing has ever been achieved by the person who says, ‘It can’t be done.’ — Eleanor Roosevelt Copy Share Image
You can't move so fast that you try to change the mores faster than people can accept it. That doesn't mean you… — 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
Surely, in the light of history, it is more intelligent to hope rather than to fear, to try rather than not to… — 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
Nobody else is going to do the things which are yours to be done in the world. — 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
