To some of us, hunger was more academic than real, but we must try to develop the ability to feel the urgency… — Eleanor Roosevelt Copy Share Image
One should always sleep in all of one's guest beds, to make sure that they are comfortable. — Eleanor Roosevelt Copy Share Image
I think we ought to impress on both our girls and boys that successful marriages require just as much work, just as… — Eleanor Roosevelt Copy Share Image
I would not be happy unless I had some regular work to do every day and I imagine that I will always… — Eleanor Roosevelt Copy Share Image
An economic policy which does not consider the well-being of all will not serve the purposes of peace and the growth of… — Eleanor Roosevelt Copy Share Image
One of the blessings of age is to learn not to part on a note of sharpness, to treasure the moments spent… — Eleanor Roosevelt Copy Share Image
My life can be so arranged that I can live on whatever I have. If I cannot live as I have lived… — Eleanor Roosevelt Copy Share Image
I have learned long ago to possess my soul in patience and accept the inevitable. — Eleanor Roosevelt Copy Share Image
At any age it does us no harm to look over our past shortcomings and plan to improve our characters and actions… — Eleanor Roosevelt Copy Share Image
It is our freedom to progress that makes us all want to live and to go on. — Eleanor Roosevelt Copy Share Image
Long ago, I made up my mind that when things were said involving only me, I would pay no attention to them,… — 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
