My experience has been that work is almost the best way to pull oneself out of the depths. — Eleanor Roosevelt Copy Share Image
How can we be such fools as to go on senselessly taking human life in this way? Why the women in every… — Eleanor Roosevelt Copy Share Image
On the whole our armed services have been doing pretty well in the way of keeping us defended, but I hope our… — Eleanor Roosevelt Copy Share Image
If you take stands in any way and people feel that you have any success in - a following, why those who… — Eleanor Roosevelt Copy Share Image
We can no longer oversimplify. We can no longer build lazy and false stereotypes: Americans are like this, Russians are like that,… — 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
I don't know much about Capitalism, but I do know about Democracy and freedom, and if Capitalism may change in many, many… — Eleanor Roosevelt Copy Share Image
Those of us who believe in the right of any human being to belong to whatever church he sees fit, and to… — Eleanor Roosevelt Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
If anyone were to ask me what I want out of life I would say- the opportunity for doing something useful, for… — Eleanor Roosevelt Copy Share Image
“Lest I keep my complacent way, I must remember somewhere out there a person died for me today, As long as there… — Eleanor Roosevelt Copy Share Image
You in the unions do not yet represent all of labor. But I hope some day you will, because I believe that… — Eleanor Roosevelt Copy Share Image
One of the best ways of enslaving a people is to keep them from education. — Eleanor Roosevelt Copy Share Image
A successful life for a man or for a woman seems to me to lie in the knowledge that one has developed… — Eleanor Roosevelt Copy Share Image
One of the best ways of enslaving a people is to keep them from education... The second way of enslaving a people… — 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 word communist, of course, has become a rallying cry for certain people here just as the word Jew was in Hitler's… — Eleanor Roosevelt Copy Share Image
The motivating force of the theory of a Democratic way of life is still a belief that as individuals we live cooperatively,… — Eleanor Roosevelt Copy Share Image
Nothing alive can stand still, it goes forward or back. Life is interesting only as long as it is a process of… — Eleanor Roosevelt Copy Share Image
Franklin [D. Roosevelt] had a good way of simplifying things. He made people feel that he had a real understanding of things… — 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
I would not be happy unless I had some regular work to do every day and I imagine that I will always… — Eleanor Roosevelt Copy Share Image
Mozart, who was buried in a pauper’s grave, was one of the greatest successes we know of, a man who in his… — 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