Every woman in public life needs to develop skin as tough as rhinoceros hide, — Eleanor Roosevelt Copy Share Image
The very next thing you need to be doing is the thing that terrifies you the most. — 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
We need not fear any isms if our democracy is achieving the ends for which it was established. — Eleanor Roosevelt Copy Share Image
The more we simplify our material needs the more we are free to think of other things. — Eleanor Roosevelt Copy Share Image
We need emotional outlets in this country, and the more artistic people we develop the better it will be for us as… — Eleanor Roosevelt Copy Share Image
what we need in the world is manners ... I think that if, instead of preaching brotherly love, we preached good manners,… — Eleanor Roosevelt Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
Love can often be misguided and do as much harm as good, but respect can do only good. It assumes that the… — Eleanor Roosevelt Copy Share Image
This is not a time when women should be patient. We are in a war and we need to fight it with… — Eleanor Roosevelt Copy Share Image
Sometimes it is extremely good for you to forget that there is anything in the world which needs to be done, and… — Eleanor Roosevelt Copy Share Image
I think that in great crises you need to have deep rooted convictions and I have a feeling from the kind of… — 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
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
Mahatma Gandhi I would say had perhaps a greater spiritual quality whereas Winston Churchill had besides the courage, ability and above everything… — Eleanor Roosevelt Copy Share Image
All human beings have failings, all human beings have needs and temptations and stresses. Men and women who live together through long… — Eleanor Roosevelt Copy Share Image
You in the unions do not yet represent all of labor. But I hope some day you will, because I believe that… — Eleanor Roosevelt Copy Share Image
A mature person is one who does not think only in absolutes, who is able to be objective even when deeply stirred… — Eleanor Roosevelt Copy Share Image
Smearing good people like Lauchlin Currie [former administrative assistant to President Roosevelt], Alger Hiss and others is, I think, unforgiveable... Anyone knowing… — 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
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 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
![“Smearing good people like Lauchlin Currie [former administrative assistant to President Roosevelt], Alger Hiss and others is, I think, unforgiveable... Anyone knowing Mr. Currie or Mr. Hiss, who are the two people whom I happen to know fairly well, would not need any denial on their part to know…” quote by Eleanor Roosevelt](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/447/eleanor-roosevelt-381_administrative_smearing-good-people-like-lauchlin-curri_2311126.jpg)
