Life is like a parachute jump, you've got to get it right the first time. — Eleanor Roosevelt Copy Share Image
Every woman in public life needs to develop skin as tough as rhinoceros hide, — Eleanor Roosevelt Copy Share Image
I have spent many years of my life in opposition, and I rather like the role. — Eleanor Roosevelt Copy Share Image
“You can not live at all if you do not learn to adapt yourself to your life as it happens to be.” — Eleanor Roosevelt Copy Share Image
A little simplification would be the first step toward rational living, I think. — Eleanor Roosevelt Copy Share Image
You wouldn't worry so much about what others think of you if you realized how seldom they do. — Eleanor Roosevelt Copy Share Image
No one is all-knowing and therefore all of us need both love and charity. — Eleanor Roosevelt Copy Share Image
Nothing alive can stand still, it goes forward or back. Life is interesting only as long as it is a process of… — Eleanor Roosevelt Copy Share Image
“I could never be content to take my place by the fireside and simply look on. Life was meant to be lived,… — 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
How can we be such fools as to go on senselessly taking human life in this way? Why the women in every… — Eleanor Roosevelt Copy Share Image
People grow through experience if they meet life honestly and courageously. This is how character is built. — Eleanor Roosevelt Copy Share Image
Every woman wants to be first to someone sometime in her life and that desire is the explanation for many strange things… — Eleanor Roosevelt Copy Share Image
To most teenagers, life is a strange uncharted land filled with a mixture of new joys, intensely felt, and painful confusions for… — Eleanor Roosevelt Copy Share Image
If anyone were to ask me what I want out of life I would say- the opportunity for doing something useful, for… — Eleanor Roosevelt Copy Share Image
I could not, at any age, be content to take my place by the fireside and simply look on. Life was meant… — Eleanor Roosevelt Copy Share Image
Someone once asked me what I regarded as the three most important requirements for happiness. My answer was: A feeling that you… — Eleanor Roosevelt Copy Share Image
“Whatever period of life we are in is good only to the extent that we make use of it, that we live… — 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
Your life is your own. You mold it. You make it. All anyone can do is to point out ways and means… — Eleanor Roosevelt Copy Share Image
“I wish with all my heart that every child could be so imbued with a sense of the adventure of life that… — Eleanor Roosevelt Copy Share Image
It is a rather curious thing to have to divide one's life into personal and official compartments and temporarily put the personal… — 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
We women are callow fledglings as compared with the wise old birds who manipulate the political machinery, and we still hesitate to… — 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
“WE ALL create the person we become by our choices as we go through life. In a very real sense, by the… — 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… — Eleanor Roosevelt Copy Share Image
“A FEW years ago, someone asked me for my definition of a mature person. Here it is: “A mature person is one… — 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
“As I look back, I think of my own grandmother, who made some of the biggest adjustments I ever saw a human… — Eleanor Roosevelt Copy Share Image
A successful life for a man or for a woman seems to me to lie in the knowledge that one has developed… — Eleanor Roosevelt Copy Share Image
Many people walk in and out of your life but only true friends leave footprints in your heart — Eleanor Roosevelt Copy Share Image
Happiness is not a goal. It's a by-product of a life well lived. — 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
