Remember always that you have not only the right to be an individual; you have an obligation to be one. — Eleanor Roosevelt Copy Share Image
The battle for the individual rights of women is one of long standing and none of us should countenance anything which undermines… — Eleanor Roosevelt Copy Share Image
Success must include two things: the development of an individual to his utmost potentiality and a contribution of some kind to one's… — Eleanor Roosevelt Copy Share Image
It is not that you set the individual apart from society but that you recognize in any society that the individual must… — 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
The leisure class is one in which individuals have sufficient economic security and sufficient leisure to find opportunity for a variety of… — Eleanor Roosevelt Copy Share Image
It is a brave thing to have courage to be an individual; it is also, perhaps, a lonely thing. But it is… — Eleanor Roosevelt Copy Share Image
Since everybody is an individual, nobody can be you. You are unique. No one can tell you how to use your time.… — Eleanor Roosevelt Copy Share Image
Basically we could not have peace, or an atmosphere in which peace could grow, unless we recognized the rights of individual human… — Eleanor Roosevelt Copy Share Image
I have always seen life personally; my interest or sympathy or indignation is not aroused by an abstract cause but by the… — Eleanor Roosevelt Copy Share Image
True patriotism springs from a belief in the dignity of the individual, freedom and equality not only for Americans but for all… — Eleanor Roosevelt Copy Share Image
Where, after all, do universal human rights begin? In small places, close to home - so close and so small that they… — Eleanor Roosevelt Copy Share Image
It seems to me that I cannot afford, as a self-respecting individual, to refuse to do a thing merely because it will… — Eleanor Roosevelt Copy Share Image
The motivating force of the theory of a Democratic way of life is still a belief that as individuals we live cooperatively,… — Eleanor Roosevelt Copy Share Image
I was perfectly certain that I had nothing to offer of an individual nature and that my only chance of doing my… — 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
