May Quotes by Eleanor Roosevelt

Usefulness, whatever form it may take, is the price we should pay for the air we breathe and the food we eat…

— Eleanor Roosevelt

When life is too easy for us, we must beware or we may not be ready to meet the blows which sooner…

— Eleanor Roosevelt

We do not move forward by curtailing people's liberty because we are afraid of what they may do or say.

— Eleanor Roosevelt

...no matter how avid they themselves may be for praise and appreciation, people are often niggardly in giving it to others, however…

— Eleanor Roosevelt

Keep us at tasks too hard for us that we may be driven to Thee for strength.

— Eleanor Roosevelt

We must be willing to learn the lesson that cooperation may imply compromise, but if it brings a world advance it is…

— Eleanor Roosevelt

Obedience may have its uses, but it is no substitute for willing, uncoerced co-operation.

— Eleanor Roosevelt

Autobiographies are only useful as the lives you read about and analyze may suggest to you something that you may find useful…

— Eleanor Roosevelt

About the only value the story of my life may have is to show that one can, even without any particular gifts,…

— Eleanor Roosevelt

Perhaps in His wisdom the Almighty is trying to show us that a leader may chart the way, may point out the…

— Eleanor Roosevelt

practically nothing we do ever stands by itself. If it is good, it will serve some good purpose in the future. If…

— Eleanor Roosevelt

I don't know much about Capitalism, but I do know about Democracy and freedom, and if Capitalism may change in many, many…

— Eleanor Roosevelt

the term 'young adults' which is so often used today seems to me a misnomer, and one which, if taken seriously, may…

— Eleanor Roosevelt

If you prepare yourself at every point as well as you can, with whatever means you may have, however meager they may…

— Eleanor Roosevelt

the fundamental right of freedom of thought and expression is essential. If you curtail what the other fellow says and does, you…

— Eleanor Roosevelt

All of us in this country give lip service to the ideals set forth in the Bill of Rights and emphasized by…

— Eleanor Roosevelt

The encouraging thing is that every time you meet a situation, though you may think at the time it is an impossibility…

— Eleanor Roosevelt

We stand today at the threshold of a great event both in the life of the United Nations and in the life…

— Eleanor Roosevelt

What we apparently have failed to grasp is that, in this new world in which we live, the collective hunger of great…

— Eleanor Roosevelt

Most women, I think, though they may complain a little about this, would agree that meeting the needs of others is not…

— Eleanor Roosevelt

To a certain extent I don't see any real need for socialism in the United States immediately, but things change and it…

— Eleanor Roosevelt

To tell the people in the West not to use their cars means that these people may never see another soul for…

— Eleanor Roosevelt