To handle yourself, use your head; to handle others, use your heart. Anger is only one letter short of danger. If someone… — Eleanor Roosevelt Copy Share Image
I have complete faith in the American people's ability if they know and if they have leadership. — Eleanor Roosevelt Copy Share Image
I think if the people of this country can be reached with the truth, their judgment will be in favor of the… — Eleanor Roosevelt Copy Share Image
I think that if the atomic bomb did nothing more, it scared the people to the point where they realized that either… — Eleanor Roosevelt Copy Share Image
Always be on time. Never try to make any personal engagements. Do as little talking as humanly possible. Never be disturbed by… — Eleanor Roosevelt Copy Share Image
The will of the people shall be the basis of the authority of government... — Eleanor Roosevelt Copy Share Image
Perhaps the basic thing which contributes to charm is the ability to forget oneself and be engrossed in other people. — Eleanor Roosevelt Copy Share Image
The word communist, of course, has become a rallying cry for certain people here just as the word Jew was in Hitler's… — Eleanor Roosevelt Copy Share Image
If many of our young people have lost the excitement of the early settlers, who had a country to explore and develop,… — 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
It takes courage to love, but pain through love is the purifying fire which those who love generously know. We all know… — Eleanor Roosevelt Copy Share Image
There is a widespread understanding among the people of this nation, and probably among the people of the world, that there is… — Eleanor Roosevelt Copy Share Image
I feel quite sure that what the American people lack is knowledge. — Eleanor Roosevelt Copy Share Image
...conservation of land and conservation of people frequently go hand in hand. — Eleanor Roosevelt Copy Share Image
Beautiful young people are accidents of nature, but beautiful old people are works of art. — 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
Do the things that interest you and do them with all your heart. Don't be concerned about whether people are watching you… — Eleanor Roosevelt Copy Share Image
... the next war will be a war in which people not armies will suffer, and our boasted, hard-earned civilization will do… — Eleanor Roosevelt Copy Share Image
People grow through experience if they meet life honestly and courageously. This is how character is built. — 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
Franklin [D. Roosevelt] had a good way of simplifying things. He made people feel that he had a real understanding of things… — 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
Most of the work that's done in the world gets done by people who weren't feeling all that well at the time… — Eleanor Roosevelt Copy Share Image
Do the things that interest you and do them with all your heart. Don't be concerned about whether people are watching you… — 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