It isn't enough to talk about peace. One must believe in it. And it isn't enough to believe in it. One must… — 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
Life's not about expecting, hoping and wishing. It's about doing, being and becoming. It's about t Learn from the mistakes of others.… — Eleanor Roosevelt Copy Share Image
Curiously enough, it is often the people who refuse to assume any responsibility who are apt to be the sharpest critics of… — Eleanor Roosevelt Copy Share Image
Old age has deformities enough of its own. It should never add to them the deformity of vice. — Eleanor Roosevelt Copy Share Image
I wonder if Communists occupied in producing plays are not safer than Communists starving to death. I have always felt that whatever… — Eleanor Roosevelt Copy Share Image
We will have to want peace, want it enough to pay for it, before it becomes an accepted rule. — 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
There is not human being from whom we cannot learn something if we are interested enough to dig deep. — Eleanor Roosevelt Copy Share Image
The trouble is that not enough people have come together with the firm determination to live the things which they say they… — Eleanor Roosevelt Copy Share Image
Will people ever be wise enough to refuse to follow bad leaders or to take away the freedom of other people? — 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
