Life is like a parachute jump, you've got to get it right the first time. — Eleanor Roosevelt Copy Share Image
If the use of leisure time is confined to looking at TV for a few extra hours every day, we will deteriorate… — Eleanor Roosevelt Copy Share Image
Each time you learn something new you must readjust the whole framework of your knowledge — Eleanor Roosevelt Copy Share Image
... any citizen should be willing to give all that he has to give his country in work or sacrifice in times… — Eleanor Roosevelt Copy Share Image
We don't become heroes overnight." - One step at a time, eventually discovering we have the strength to stare it down. — Eleanor Roosevelt Copy Share Image
This is a time for action not for war, but for mobilization of every bit of peace machinery. — Eleanor Roosevelt Copy Share Image
Most of the work that's done in the world gets done by people who weren't feeling all that well at the time… — Eleanor Roosevelt Copy Share Image
The future is literally in our hands to mold as we like. But we cannot wait until tomorrow. Tomorrow is now. — Eleanor Roosevelt Copy Share Image
If you can develop this ability to see what you look at, to understand its meaning, to readjust your knowledge to this… — 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
I feel quite sure that the American people, if they have knowledge and leadership, can meet any crisis just as well as… — 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
Campaign behavior for wives: Always be on time. Do as little talking as humanly possible. Lean back in the parade car so… — Eleanor Roosevelt Copy Share Image
We face the future fortified with the lessons we have learned from the past. It is today that we must create the… — 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
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
Always be on time. Never try to make any personal engagements. Do as little talking as humanly possible. Never be disturbed by… — 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
“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
Of all the nations in the Western world, the United States, with the most money and the most time, has the fewest… — Eleanor Roosevelt Copy Share Image
Each of us has... all the time there is. Those years, weeks, hours, are the sands in the glass running swiftly away.… — 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
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
“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
Since everybody is an individual, nobody can be you. You are unique. No one can tell you how to use your time.… — Eleanor Roosevelt Copy Share Image
At all times, day by day, we have to continue fighting for freedom of religion, freedom of speech, and freedom from want...… — Eleanor Roosevelt Copy Share Image
This is not a time when women should be patient. We are in a war and we need to fight it with… — Eleanor Roosevelt Copy Share Image
One of the blessings of age is to learn not to part on a note of sharpness, to treasure the moments spent… — 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
“Nearly every one of us, at some time or other, thinks what a great waste and pity it is that the older… — Eleanor Roosevelt Copy Share Image
practically nothing we do ever stands by itself. If it is good, it will serve some good purpose in the future. If… — 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
Sometimes it is extremely good for you to forget that there is anything in the world which needs to be done, and… — Eleanor Roosevelt Copy Share Image
When all is said and done, and statesmen discuss the future of the world, the fact remains that people fight these wars. — Eleanor Roosevelt Copy Share Image
“We do not have to become heroes overnight. Just a step at a time, meeting each thing that comes up, seeing it… — Eleanor Roosevelt Copy Share Image
“I think everyone, at some time in his life, has this happen to him, comes face to face with the bitter realization… — 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
