I am convinced that every effort must be made in childhood to teach the young to use their own minds. For one… — Eleanor Roosevelt Copy Share Image
Terrific minds focus on tips; average minds go over activities; little minds talk about people today. — Eleanor Roosevelt Copy Share Image
Long ago, I made up my mind that when things were said involving only me, I would pay no attention to them,… — Eleanor Roosevelt Copy Share Image
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
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 Marines I have seen around the world have the cleanest bodies, the filthiest minds, the highest morale, and the lowest morals… — Eleanor Roosevelt Copy Share Image
“Discipline of mind and body is one of the most difficult things one has to acquire, but in the long run it… — Eleanor Roosevelt Copy Share Image
“If we can keep that flexibility of mind, that hospitality toward new ideas, we will be able to welcome the new flow… — Eleanor Roosevelt Copy Share Image
“...Learn to concentrate, to give all your attention to the thing at hand, and then to be able to put it aside… — 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
