I never met Mahatma Gandhi, but, I think everyone felt they knew him even if they hadn't met him. — Eleanor Roosevelt Copy Share Image
I wonder if one of the penalties of growing older is that you become more and more conscious that nothing is very… — Eleanor Roosevelt Copy Share Image
If we do not pay for children in good schools, then we are going to pay for them in prisons and mental… — Eleanor Roosevelt Copy Share Image
If the use of leisure time is confined to looking at TV for a few extra hours every day, we will deteriorate… — Eleanor Roosevelt Copy Share Image
If quitting smoking seems hard right now, it is exactly what you should start doing — Eleanor Roosevelt Copy Share Image
We need not fear any isms if our democracy is achieving the ends for which it was established. — Eleanor Roosevelt Copy Share Image
If we want a free and peaceful world, if we want to make the deserts bloom and man grow to greater dignity… — Eleanor Roosevelt Copy Share Image
We must be willing to learn the lesson that cooperation may imply compromise, but if it brings a world advance it is… — Eleanor Roosevelt Copy Share Image
what we need in the world is manners ... I think that if, instead of preaching brotherly love, we preached good manners,… — Eleanor Roosevelt Copy Share Image
My life can be so arranged that I can live on whatever I have. If I cannot live as I have lived… — Eleanor Roosevelt Copy Share Image
There never has been security. No man has ever known what he would meet around the next corner; if life were predictable… — Eleanor Roosevelt Copy Share Image
If you take stands in any way and people feel that you have any success in - a following, why those who… — Eleanor Roosevelt Copy Share Image
About the only value the story of my life may have is to show that one can, even without any particular gifts,… — Eleanor Roosevelt Copy Share Image
If you approach each new person you meet in a spirit of adventure, you will find yourself endlessly fascinated by the new… — Eleanor Roosevelt Copy Share Image
I don't know much about Capitalism, but I do know about Democracy and freedom, and if Capitalism may change in many, many… — Eleanor Roosevelt Copy Share Image
practically nothing we do ever stands by itself. If it is good, it will serve some good purpose in the future. If… — Eleanor Roosevelt Copy Share Image
All human beings have failings, all human beings have needs and temptations and stresses. Men and women who live together through long… — Eleanor Roosevelt Copy Share Image
It's your life - but only if you make it so. The standards by which you live must be your own standards,… — Eleanor Roosevelt Copy Share Image
To handle yourself, use your head; to handle others, use your heart. Anger is only one letter short of danger. If someone… — Eleanor Roosevelt Copy Share Image
If human beings can be trained for cruelty and greed and a belief in power which comes through hate and fear and… — 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
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
You gain strength, courage, and confidence by every experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face… The danger… — Eleanor Roosevelt Copy Share Image
I received a most amusing postcard the other morning. Unfortunately, it was not signed in a readable manner so I cannot answer… — Eleanor Roosevelt Copy Share Image
If we fail to meet our problems here, no one else in the world will do so. If we fail, the heart… — Eleanor Roosevelt Copy Share Image
I have complete faith in the American people's ability if they know and if they have leadership. — Eleanor Roosevelt Copy Share Image
If you have any interests you can gain a wider audience for those interests while the goldfish bowl is yours! — 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
You rarely achieve finality. If you did, life would be over, but as you strive new visions open before you, new possibilities… — Eleanor Roosevelt Copy Share Image
the term 'young adults' which is so often used today seems to me a misnomer, and one which, if taken seriously, may… — Eleanor Roosevelt Copy Share Image
If it's a man's game so decidedly that a woman would be soiled by entering it, then there is something radically wrong… — Eleanor Roosevelt Copy Share Image
If you prepare yourself at every point as well as you can, with whatever means you may have, however meager they may… — Eleanor Roosevelt Copy Share Image
If everything was in your favor, if you did not have to surmount any great mountains, then you have nothing to be… — Eleanor Roosevelt Copy Share Image
the fundamental right of freedom of thought and expression is essential. If you curtail what the other fellow says and does, you… — Eleanor Roosevelt Copy Share Image
I believe that it is a great mistake not to stand up for people, even when you differ with them, if you… — Eleanor Roosevelt Copy Share Image
It is impossible to be a cynic if you live a good deal with young people. Fundamentally, every young person has a… — Eleanor Roosevelt Copy Share Image
I think that if the atomic bomb did nothing more, it scared the people to the point where they realized that either… — 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
experience should teach us that it is always the unexpected that does occur. — Eleanor Roosevelt Copy Share
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
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
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
The destiny of human rights is in the hands of all our citizens in all our communities. — Eleanor Roosevelt Copy Share
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
“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
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
Never allow a person to tell you no who doesn't have the power to say yes. — Eleanor Roosevelt Copy Share
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
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
All of us ... should remember that no amount of flag-waving, pledging allegiance, or fervent singing of the national anthem is evidence that we… — Eleanor Roosevelt Copy Share
If we want a free and peaceful world, if we want to make the deserts bloom and man grow to greater dignity as a… — Eleanor Roosevelt Copy Share
