You gain strength, courage, and confidence by doing the thing which you think you cannot do. — Eleanor Roosevelt Copy Share Image
I never met Mahatma Gandhi, but, I think everyone felt they knew him even if they hadn't met him. — Eleanor Roosevelt Copy Share Image
I think it is impossible for one human being really to know another without first knowing and being at peace with himself. — Eleanor Roosevelt Copy Share Image
Think as little as possible about yourself and as much as possible about other people. — Eleanor Roosevelt Copy Share Image
We must know what we think and speak out, even at the risk of unpopularity. — 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
You wouldn't worry so much about what others think of you if you realized how seldom they do. — Eleanor Roosevelt Copy Share Image
The more we simplify our material needs the more we are free to think of other things. — Eleanor Roosevelt Copy Share Image
I think we ought to impress on both our girls and boys that successful marriages require just as much work, just as… — Eleanor Roosevelt Copy Share Image
Every time you meet a situation you think at the time it is an impossibility and you go through the tortures of… — Eleanor Roosevelt Copy Share Image
A number of people still think of the United States as being overwhelmingly English, Protestant, and white. This erroneous idea influences their… — Eleanor Roosevelt Copy Share Image
I'm intensely anxious to preserve the freedom that gives you the right to think and to act and to talk as you… — Eleanor Roosevelt Copy Share Image
I do not think I will ever become deadened, because I live in other people's lives, I must admit there are times… — Eleanor Roosevelt Copy Share Image
what we need in the world is manners ... I think that if, instead of preaching brotherly love, we preached good manners,… — Eleanor Roosevelt Copy Share Image
You seem to think that everyone can save money if they have the character to do it. As a matter of fact,… — 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
Your life is your own. You mold it. You make it. All anyone can do is to point out ways and means… — Eleanor Roosevelt Copy Share Image
A woman has, first of all, her duties in their own home, and there are many women particularly when they're young, who… — Eleanor Roosevelt Copy Share Image
Do whatever comes your way to do as well as you can. Think as little as possible about yourself. Think as much… — 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
Smearing good people like Lauchlin Currie [former administrative assistant to President Roosevelt], Alger Hiss and others is, I think, unforgiveable... Anyone knowing… — Eleanor Roosevelt Copy Share Image
All of us in this country give lip service to the ideals set forth in the Bill of Rights and emphasized by… — 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
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
Criticism ... makes very little dent upon me, unless I think there is some real justification and something should be done. — Eleanor Roosevelt Copy Share Image
First of my own personal requirements is inner calm. This, I think, is an essential. One of the secrets of using your… — Eleanor Roosevelt Copy Share Image
I think the thing we must look for actually is a growth in our people and in whoever comes in a quality… — Eleanor Roosevelt Copy Share Image
Most women, I think, though they may complain a little about this, would agree that meeting the needs of others is not… — Eleanor Roosevelt Copy Share Image
I think that in great crises you need to have deep rooted convictions and I have a feeling from the kind of… — Eleanor Roosevelt Copy Share Image
The kind of man who thinks that helping with the dishes is beneath him will also think that helping with the baby… — Eleanor Roosevelt Copy Share Image
Franklin's illness...gave him strength and courage he had not had before. He had to think out the fundamentals of living and learn… — Eleanor Roosevelt Copy Share Image
How hard it is to project oneself into the future. We are always prone to think of the conditions which are with… — 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… — Eleanor Roosevelt Copy Share Image
I have a great belief in spiritual force, but I think we have to realize that spiritual force alone has to have… — Eleanor Roosevelt Copy Share Image
The encouraging thing is that every time you meet a situation, though you may think at the time it is an impossibility… — 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
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
![“Smearing good people like Lauchlin Currie [former administrative assistant to President Roosevelt], Alger Hiss and others is, I think, unforgiveable... Anyone knowing Mr. Currie or Mr. Hiss, who are the two people whom I happen to know fairly well, would not need any denial on their part to know…” quote by Eleanor Roosevelt](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/447/eleanor-roosevelt-381_administrative_smearing-good-people-like-lauchlin-curri_2311126.jpg)
