The things you refuse to meet today always come back at you later on, usually under circumstances which make the decision twice… — Eleanor Roosevelt Copy Share Image
The morality of a [political] party must grow out of the conscience and the participation of the voters. — Eleanor Roosevelt Copy Share Image
If you have any interests you can gain a wider audience for those interests while the goldfish bowl is yours! — Eleanor Roosevelt Copy Share Image
I wonder if Communists occupied in producing plays are not safer than Communists starving to death. I have always felt that whatever… — 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
We women are callow fledglings as compared with the wise old birds who manipulate the political machinery, and we still hesitate to… — Eleanor Roosevelt Copy Share Image
If you believe that a nation is really better off which achieves for a comparative few, those who are capable of attaining… — Eleanor Roosevelt Copy Share Image
Long ago, there was a noble word, liberal, which derives from the word free. Now a strange thing happened to that word.… — 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 know the answer, and you often will not, then take the child with you to a source to find the answer. This may be a dictionary or encyclopedia which he is too young to use himself,… — 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 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