Obedience may have its uses, but it is no substitute for willing, uncoerced co-operation. — Eleanor Roosevelt Copy Share Image
We must be willing to learn the lesson that cooperation may imply compromise, but if it brings a world advance it is… — Eleanor Roosevelt Copy Share Image
Keep us at tasks too hard for us that we may be driven to Thee for strength. — Eleanor Roosevelt Copy Share Image
...no matter how avid they themselves may be for praise and appreciation, people are often niggardly in giving it to others, however… — Eleanor Roosevelt Copy Share Image
We do not move forward by curtailing people's liberty because we are afraid of what they may do or say. — Eleanor Roosevelt Copy Share Image
When life is too easy for us, we must beware or we may not be ready to meet the blows which sooner… — Eleanor Roosevelt Copy Share Image
Usefulness, whatever form it may take, is the price we should pay for the air we breathe and the food we eat… — Eleanor Roosevelt Copy Share Image
To tell the people in the West not to use their cars means that these people may never see another soul for… — Eleanor Roosevelt Copy Share Image
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 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
the fundamental right of freedom of thought and expression is essential. If you curtail what the other fellow says and does, you… — Eleanor Roosevelt Copy Share Image
What we apparently have failed to grasp is that, in this new world in which we live, the collective hunger of great… — Eleanor Roosevelt Copy Share Image
If you prepare yourself at every point as well as you can, with whatever means you may have, however meager they may… — Eleanor Roosevelt Copy Share Image
the term 'young adults' which is so often used today seems to me a misnomer, and one which, if taken seriously, may… — Eleanor Roosevelt Copy Share Image
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 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
The encouraging thing is that every time you meet a situation, though you may think at the time it is an impossibility… — Eleanor Roosevelt Copy Share Image
All of us in this country give lip service to the ideals set forth in the Bill of Rights and emphasized by… — Eleanor Roosevelt Copy Share Image
practically nothing we do ever stands by itself. If it is good, it will serve some good purpose in the future. If… — Eleanor Roosevelt Copy Share Image
Perhaps in His wisdom the Almighty is trying to show us that a leader may chart the way, may point out the… — Eleanor Roosevelt Copy Share Image
About the only value the story of my life may have is to show that one can, even without any particular gifts,… — Eleanor Roosevelt Copy Share Image
Autobiographies are only useful as the lives you read about and analyze may suggest to you something that you may find useful… — 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
