Our obligation to the world is, primarily, our obligation to our own future. Obviously, we cannot develop beyond a certain point unless… — Eleanor Roosevelt Copy Share Image
“...our children must learn...to face full responsibility for their actions, to make their own choices and cope with the results...the whole democratic… — Eleanor Roosevelt Copy Share Image
Freedom makes a huge requirement of every human being. With freedom comes responsibility. For the person who is unwilling to grow up,… — Eleanor Roosevelt Copy Share Image
“WE ALL create the person we become by our choices as we go through life. In a very real sense, by the… — Eleanor Roosevelt Copy Share Image
This freedom of which men speak, for which they fight, seems to some people a perilous thing. It has to be earned… — Eleanor Roosevelt Copy Share Image
Curiously enough, it is often the people who refuse to assume any responsibility who are apt to be the sharpest critics of… — Eleanor Roosevelt Copy Share Image
Remember always that you have not only the right to be an individual; you have an obligation to be one. — Eleanor Roosevelt Copy Share Image
I know that given great responsibility men sometimes change, but Mr. Nixon's Presidency would worry me. — Eleanor Roosevelt Copy Share Image
A democratic form of government, a democratic way of life, presupposes free public education over a long period; it presupposes also an… — Eleanor Roosevelt Copy Share Image
In the long run, we shape our lives, and we shape ourselves. The process never ends until we die. And the choices… — Eleanor Roosevelt Copy Share Image
One's philosophy is not best expressed in words; it is expressed in the choices one makes... and the choices we make are… — Eleanor Roosevelt Copy Share Image
One's philosophy is not best expressed in words; it is expressed in the choices one makes. In stopping to think through the… — Eleanor Roosevelt Copy Share Image
Our children should learn the general framework of their government and then they should know where they come in contact with 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
