Nothing has ever been achieved by the person who says, ‘It can’t be done.’ — Eleanor Roosevelt Copy Share Image
Caring comes from being able to put yourself in the position of the other person. — Eleanor Roosevelt Copy Share Image
When you know to laugh and when to look upon things as too absurd to take seriously, the other person is ashamed… — Eleanor Roosevelt Copy Share Image
It is a curious thing in human experience, but to live through a period of stress and sorrow with another person, creates… — Eleanor Roosevelt Copy Share Image
We all create the person we become by our choices as we go through life. In a real sense, by the time… — Eleanor Roosevelt Copy Share Image
It is impossible to be a cynic if you live a good deal with young people. Fundamentally, every young person has a… — 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
When you build a memorial, you build it not because the person wanted it, but for the future -- for generations who… — Eleanor Roosevelt Copy Share Image
“Lest I keep my complacent way, I must remember somewhere out there a person died for me today, As long as there… — Eleanor Roosevelt Copy Share Image
If you approach each new person you meet in a spirit of adventure, you will find yourself endlessly fascinated by the new… — Eleanor Roosevelt Copy Share Image
To appear to be on the inside and know more than others about what is going on is a great temptation for… — Eleanor Roosevelt Copy Share Image
What counts, in the long run, is not what you read; it is what you sift through your own mind; it is… — Eleanor Roosevelt Copy Share Image
The most unhappy people in the world are those who face the days without knowing what to do with their time. But… — Eleanor Roosevelt Copy Share Image
Where, after all, do universal human rights begin? In small places, close to home - so close and so small that they… — Eleanor Roosevelt Copy Share Image
Success is not something that can be measured or worn on a watch or hung on a wall. It is not the… — 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
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
Surely, in the light of history, it is more intelligent to hope rather than to fear, to try rather than not to… — Eleanor Roosevelt Copy Share Image
I have always seen life personally; my interest or sympathy or indignation is not aroused by an abstract cause but by the… — 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
