Nothing was ever accomplished by anyone who said 'It can't be done.' — Eleanor Roosevelt Copy Share Image
Every woman in public life needs to develop skin as tough as rhinoceros hide, — 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
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
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
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
When you are genuinely interested in one thing, it will always lead to something else. — Eleanor Roosevelt Copy Share Image
If someone betrays you once, it’s their fault; if they betray you twice, it’s your fault. — Eleanor Roosevelt Copy Share Image
All wars eventually act as boomerangs and the victor suffers as much as the vanquished. — Eleanor Roosevelt Copy Share Image
The important thing is neither your nationality nor the religion you professed, but how your faith translated itself in your life. — Eleanor Roosevelt Copy Share Image
It takes courage to love, but pain through love is the purifying fire which those who love generously know. — Eleanor Roosevelt Copy Share Image
You always admire what you really don't understand. - Eleanor Roosevelt — Eleanor Roosevelt Copy Share Image
Nothing has ever been achieved by the person who says, ‘It can’t be done.’ — Eleanor Roosevelt Copy Share Image
It seems to me that it is the basic right of any human being to work. — Eleanor Roosevelt Copy Share Image
You can often change your circumstances by changing your attitude — Eleanor Roosevelt Copy Share Image
All the water in the world cannot drown you unless it gets inside of you. — Eleanor Roosevelt Copy Share Image
Make the most of What you have, When you have it, Where you are. — Eleanor Roosevelt Copy Share Image
A stumbling block to the pessimist is a stepping-stone to the optimist. — Eleanor Roosevelt Copy Share Image
It is equality of monotony which makes the strength of the British Isles. — Eleanor Roosevelt Copy Share Image
Do not be afraid of mistakes, provided you do not make the same one twice. — 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
