Needs Quotes by Eleanor Roosevelt

We need our radicals.

— Eleanor Roosevelt

You do the things that need to be done according to priority.

— Eleanor Roosevelt

Every woman in public life needs to develop skin as tough as rhinoceros hide,

— Eleanor Roosevelt

The very next thing you need to be doing is the thing that terrifies you the most.

— Eleanor Roosevelt

No one is all-knowing and therefore all of us need both love and charity.

— Eleanor Roosevelt

We need not fear any isms if our democracy is achieving the ends for which it was established.

— Eleanor Roosevelt

The more we simplify our material needs the more we are free to think of other things.

— Eleanor Roosevelt

We need emotional outlets in this country, and the more artistic people we develop the better it will be for us as…

— Eleanor Roosevelt

what we need in the world is manners ... I think that if, instead of preaching brotherly love, we preached good manners,…

— Eleanor Roosevelt

You need not be proud of me… I'm only being active till you can be again--it isn't such a great desire on…

— Eleanor Roosevelt

Love can often be misguided and do as much harm as good, but respect can do only good. It assumes that the…

— Eleanor Roosevelt

This is not a time when women should be patient. We are in a war and we need to fight it with…

— Eleanor Roosevelt

Sometimes it is extremely good for you to forget that there is anything in the world which needs to be done, and…

— Eleanor Roosevelt

I think that in great crises you need to have deep rooted convictions and I have a feeling from the kind of…

— 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

You in the unions do not yet represent all of labor. But I hope some day you will, because I believe that…

— Eleanor Roosevelt

Mahatma Gandhi I would say had perhaps a greater spiritual quality whereas Winston Churchill had besides the courage, ability and above everything…

— Eleanor Roosevelt

All human beings have failings, all human beings have needs and temptations and stresses. Men and women who live together through long…

— Eleanor Roosevelt

A mature person is one who does not think only in absolutes, who is able to be objective even when deeply stirred…

— Eleanor Roosevelt

Smearing good people like Lauchlin Currie [former administrative assistant to President Roosevelt], Alger Hiss and others is, I think, unforgiveable... Anyone knowing…

— Eleanor Roosevelt

A successful life for a man or for a woman seems to me to lie in the knowledge that one has developed…

— Eleanor Roosevelt

I carried it (a revolver) religiously and during the summer I asked a friend, a man who had been one of Franklin's…

— Eleanor Roosevelt