It seems to me of great importance to teach children respect for life. — Eleanor Roosevelt Copy Share Image
Many will walk in and out of your life,but only true friends will 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
Many people walk in and out of your life but only true friends leave footprints in your heart — Eleanor Roosevelt Copy Share Image
If life were predictable it would cease to be life, and be without flavor. — 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
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 be mature you have to realize what you value most... Not to arrive at a clear understanding of one's own values… — 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
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
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
People grow through experience if they meet life honestly and courageously. This is how character is built. — 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
To undo a mistake is always harder than not to create one originally but we seldom have the foresight. Therefore we have… — 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
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
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
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
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
“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
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
Somewhere along the line of development we discover what we really are and then make our real decision for which we are… — Eleanor Roosevelt Copy Share Image
“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
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
“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
“Remember always that you have not only the right to be an individual; you have an obligation to be one. You cannot… — 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
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
“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
I say to the young: Do not stop thinking of life as an adventure. You have no security unless you can live… — 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
“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
Life must be lived and curiosity kept alive. One must never, for whatever reason, turn his back on life. — Eleanor Roosevelt Copy Share Image
You rarely achieve finality. If you did, life would be over, but as you strive new visions open before you, new possibilities… — 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… — 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
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
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
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
