“Our Father, who has set a restlessness in our hearts and made us all seekers after that which we can never fully… — Eleanor Roosevelt Copy Share Image
It seems to me of great importance to teach children respect for 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. We all know… — 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
Many people walk in and out of your life but only true friends leave footprints in your heart — Eleanor Roosevelt Copy Share Image
A little simplification would be the first step toward rational living, I think. — Eleanor Roosevelt Copy Share Image
“I cannot go to bed tonight without a word to you. I felt a little as though a part of me was… — Eleanor Roosevelt Copy Share Image
Life must be lived and curiosity kept alive. One must never, for whatever reason, turn his back on life. — 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
I have spent many years of my life in opposition, and I rather like the role. — Eleanor Roosevelt Copy Share Image
Character building begins in our infancy and continues until death. — 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
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
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
“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 seems to me of great importance to teach children respect for life. Towards this end, experiments on living animals in classrooms… — Eleanor Roosevelt Copy Share Image
Most women, I think, though they may complain a little about this, would agree that meeting the needs of others is not… — Eleanor Roosevelt Copy Share Image
There is no more precious experience in life than friendship. And I am not forgetting love and marriage as I write this;… — 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
A democratic form of government, a democratic way of life, presupposes free public education over a long period; it presupposes also an… — 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
In the long run, we shape our lives, and we shape ourselves. The process never ends until we die. And the choices… — 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
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
