The greatest tragedy of old age is the tendency for the old to feel unneeded, unwanted, and of no use to anyone;… — 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
Ambition is pitiless. Any merit that it cannot use it finds despicable. — 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
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
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
Long ago, there was a noble word, liberal, which derives from the word free. Now a strange thing happened to that word.… — 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
It is very difficult to have a free, fair and honest press anywhere in the world. In the first place, as a… — Eleanor Roosevelt Copy Share Image
Obedience may have its uses, but it is no substitute for willing, uncoerced co-operation. — Eleanor Roosevelt Copy Share Image
I carried it (a revolver) religiously and during the summer I asked a friend, a man who had been one of Franklin's… — Eleanor Roosevelt Copy Share Image
To tell the people in the West not to use their cars means that these people may never see another soul for… — 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
