True hospitality consists of giving the best of yourself to your guests. — Eleanor Roosevelt Copy Share Image
The most important thing in any relationship is not what you get but what you give.... In any case, the giving of… — Eleanor Roosevelt Copy Share Image
...no matter how avid they themselves may be for praise and appreciation, people are often niggardly in giving it to others, however… — Eleanor Roosevelt Copy Share Image
Since you get more joy out of giving joy to others, you should put a good deal of thought into the happiness… — Eleanor Roosevelt Copy Share Image
... any citizen should be willing to give all that he has to give his country in work or sacrifice in times… — Eleanor Roosevelt Copy Share Image
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 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
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 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
You seem to think that everyone can save money if they have the character to do it. As a matter of fact,… — 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
Do whatever comes your way to do as well as you can. Think as little as possible about yourself. Think as much… — Eleanor Roosevelt Copy Share Image
It takes courage to love, but pain through love is the purifying fire which those who love generously know. We all know… — Eleanor Roosevelt Copy Share Image
I think we ought to impress on both our girls and boys that successful marriages require just as much work, just as… — Eleanor Roosevelt Copy Share Image
If you believe that a nation is really better off which achieves for a comparative few, those who are capable of attaining… — 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
All of us in this country give lip service to the ideals set forth in the Bill of Rights and emphasized by… — Eleanor Roosevelt Copy Share Image
I have often felt that I cheated my children a little. I was never so totally theirs as most mothers are. I… — Eleanor Roosevelt Copy Share Image
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 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
