Every woman in public life needs to develop skin as tough as rhinoceros hide, — Eleanor Roosevelt Copy Share Image
Nothing was ever accomplished by anyone who said 'It can't be done.' — Eleanor Roosevelt Copy Share Image
Women are like tea bags: put them in hot water and they get stronger. — Eleanor Roosevelt Copy Share Image
Tomorrow is a mystery. Today is a gift. That is why it is called the present. — Eleanor Roosevelt Copy Share Image
The very next thing you need to be doing is the thing that terrifies you the most. — Eleanor Roosevelt Copy Share Image
The purpose of life is to live it, to taste experience to the utmost, to reach out eagerly and without fear for… — Eleanor Roosevelt Copy Share Image
Each time you learn something new you must readjust the whole framework of your knowledge — Eleanor Roosevelt Copy Share Image
I never thought of achievement. I just did what came along for me to do - the thing that gave me the… — Eleanor Roosevelt Copy Share Image
The word liberal comes from the word free. We must cherish and honor the word free or it will cease to apply… — Eleanor Roosevelt Copy Share Image
No, I have never wanted to be a man. I have often wanted to be more effective as a woman, but I… — 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
I have cherished the ideal a democratic and free society . . . it is an ideal for which I am prepared to die. — Eleanor Roosevelt Copy Share Image
“Life was meant to be lived, and curiosity must be kept alive. One must never, for whatever reason, turn his back on… — Eleanor Roosevelt Copy Share Image
Every time you meet a situation you think at the time it is an impossibility and you go through the tortures of… — Eleanor Roosevelt Copy Share Image
If you can develop this ability to see what you look at, to understand its meaning, to readjust your knowledge to this… — 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
Mozart, who was buried in a pauper’s grave, was one of the greatest successes we know of, a man who in his… — Eleanor Roosevelt Copy Share Image
One thing life has taught me: if you are interested, you never have to look for new interests. They come to you.… — Eleanor Roosevelt Copy Share Image
A great deal of fear is a result of just “not knowing.” We do not know what is involved in a new… — 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… — 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
