You can't move so fast that you try to change the mores faster than people can accept it. — Eleanor Roosevelt Copy Share Image
To some of us, hunger was more academic than real, but we must try to develop the ability to feel the urgency… — 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
it is always easier to do nothing than to try a new line of action. — Eleanor Roosevelt Copy Share Image
I can't tell you how to succeed, but I can tell you how to fail: Try to please everybody. — 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
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
Perhaps in His wisdom the Almighty is trying to show us that a leader may chart the way, may point out the… — Eleanor Roosevelt Copy Share Image
Surely, in the light of history, it is more intelligent to hope rather than to fear, to try rather than not to… — Eleanor Roosevelt Copy Share Image
I believe that it is a great mistake not to stand up for people, even when you differ with them, if you… — Eleanor Roosevelt Copy Share Image
To undo mistakes is always harder than not to create them originally, but we seldom have foresight. Therefore, we have no choice… — Eleanor Roosevelt Copy Share Image
To undo a mistake is always harder than not to create one originally but we seldom have the foresight. Therefore we have… — 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
