Giving Quotes by Eleanor Roosevelt

The giving of love is an education in itself.

— Eleanor Roosevelt

True hospitality consists of giving the best of yourself to your guests.

— Eleanor Roosevelt

The giving of love and understanding is an education in itself.

— Eleanor Roosevelt

The greatest gift you can give a child is an imagination.

— Eleanor Roosevelt

The most important thing in any relationship is not what you get but what you give… In any case, the giving of…

— Eleanor Roosevelt

...no matter how avid they themselves may be for praise and appreciation, people are often niggardly in giving it to others, however…

— Eleanor Roosevelt

... any citizen should be willing to give all that he has to give his country in work or sacrifice in times…

— Eleanor Roosevelt

Since you get more joy out of giving joy to others, you should put a good deal of thought into the happiness…

— Eleanor Roosevelt

Happiness is not a goal, it is a by-product. For what keeps our interest in life and makes us look forward to…

— Eleanor Roosevelt

I carried it (a revolver) religiously and during the summer I asked a friend, a man who had been one of Franklin's…

— Eleanor Roosevelt

To me who dreamed so much as a child, who made a dreamworld in which I was the heroine of an unending…

— Eleanor Roosevelt

It is very difficult to have a free, fair and honest press anywhere in the world. In the first place, as a…

— Eleanor Roosevelt

You seem to think that everyone can save money if they have the character to do it. As a matter of fact,…

— Eleanor Roosevelt

Up to a certain point it is good for us to know that there are people in the world who will give…

— Eleanor Roosevelt

Do whatever comes your way to do as well as you can. Think as little as possible about yourself. Think as much…

— Eleanor Roosevelt

It takes courage to love, but pain through love is the purifying fire which those who love generously know. We all know…

— Eleanor Roosevelt

I think we ought to impress on both our girls and boys that successful marriages require just as much work, just as…

— Eleanor Roosevelt

If you believe that a nation is really better off which achieves for a comparative few, those who are capable of attaining…

— Eleanor Roosevelt

If many of our young people have lost the excitement of the early settlers, who had a country to explore and develop,…

— Eleanor Roosevelt

All of us in this country give lip service to the ideals set forth in the Bill of Rights and emphasized by…

— Eleanor Roosevelt

I have often felt that I cheated my children a little. I was never so totally theirs as most mothers are. I…

— Eleanor Roosevelt

I'm intensely anxious to preserve the freedom that gives you the right to think and to act and to talk as you…

— Eleanor Roosevelt