What we must learn to do is to create unbreakable bonds between the sciences and the humanities. We cannot procrastinate. The world… — Eleanor Roosevelt Copy Share Image
If we want a free and peaceful world, if we want to make the deserts bloom and man grow to greater dignity… — Eleanor Roosevelt Copy Share Image
Success must include two things: the development of an individual to his utmost potentiality and a contribution of some kind to one's… — 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
After the discovery in 1918 of love letters revealing that Franklin was involved with Lucy Mercer: The bottom dropped out of my… — Eleanor Roosevelt Copy Share Image
If we fail to meet our problems here, no one else in the world will do so. If we fail, the heart… — 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
Our obligation to the world is, primarily, our obligation to our own future. Obviously, we cannot develop beyond a certain point unless… — Eleanor Roosevelt Copy Share Image
I have always seen life personally; my interest or sympathy or indignation is not aroused by an abstract cause but by the… — 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
Each generation supposes that the world was simpler for the one before it. — Eleanor Roosevelt Copy Share Image
The separation of church and state is extremely important to any of us who holds to the original traditions of our nation.… — Eleanor Roosevelt Copy Share Image
A trait no other nation seems to possess in quite the same degree as we do namely, a feeling of almost childish… — Eleanor Roosevelt Copy Share Image
Some people are going to leave a mark on this world, while others will leave a stain. — Eleanor Roosevelt Copy Share Image
We cannot exist as a little island of well-being in a world where two-thirds of the people go to bed hungry every… — 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
Where, after all, do universal human rights begin? In small places, close to home - so close and so small that they… — Eleanor Roosevelt Copy Share Image
The Marines I have seen around the world have the cleanest bodies, the filthiest minds, the highest morale, and the lowest morals… — Eleanor Roosevelt Copy Share Image
Hate and force cannot be in just a part of the world without having an effect on the rest of it. — 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
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
Friendship with ones self is all important, because without it one cannot be friends with anyone else in the world. — Eleanor Roosevelt Copy Share Image
Human resources are the most valuable assets the world has. They are all needed desperately. — 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
