Want Quotes by Eleanor Roosevelt

Everybody wants something.

— Eleanor Roosevelt

We must want for others, not ourselves alone.

— Eleanor Roosevelt

I do not want church groups controlling the schools of our country. They must remain free.

— Eleanor Roosevelt

It is our freedom to progress that makes us all want to live and to go on.

— Eleanor Roosevelt

The economy of communism is an economy which grows in an atmosphere of misery and want.

— Eleanor Roosevelt

We will have to want peace, want it enough to pay for it, before it becomes an accepted rule.

— Eleanor Roosevelt

For instance, it is certain that women do not want a woman for President. Nor would they have the slightest confidence in…

— Eleanor Roosevelt

At all times, day by day, we have to continue fighting for freedom of religion, freedom of speech, and freedom from want...…

— Eleanor Roosevelt

If we want a free and peaceful world, if we want to make the deserts bloom and man grow to greater dignity…

— Eleanor Roosevelt

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

If anyone were to ask me what I want out of life I would say- the opportunity for doing something useful, for…

— Eleanor Roosevelt

Every woman wants to be first to someone sometime in her life and that desire is the explanation for many strange things…

— Eleanor Roosevelt

Those of us who believe in the right of any human being to belong to whatever church he sees fit, and to…

— Eleanor Roosevelt

...but there isn't going to be any First Lady. There is just to be plain, ordinary Mrs. Roosevelt...I never wanted to be…

— Eleanor Roosevelt

I'm enormously interested in freedom and retaining the right to have whatever economy we want and to shape it as we want…

— Eleanor Roosevelt

Sometimes it is extremely good for you to forget that there is anything in the world which needs to be done, and…

— Eleanor Roosevelt

Your life is your own. You mold it. You make it. All anyone can do is to point out ways and means…

— Eleanor Roosevelt

Freedom makes a huge requirement of every human being. With freedom comes responsibility. For the person who is unwilling to grow up,…

— Eleanor Roosevelt

Home-making today should have a background of scientific training because only in this way can real efficiency be achieved. The average girl…

— Eleanor Roosevelt

Organize first for knowledge, first with the object of making us know ourselves as a nation, for we have to do that…

— Eleanor Roosevelt

We women are callow fledglings as compared with the wise old birds who manipulate the political machinery, and we still hesitate to…

— Eleanor Roosevelt