World Quotes by Eleanor Roosevelt

Some people are going to leave a mark on this world, while others will leave a stain.

— Eleanor Roosevelt

Nobody else is going to do the things which are yours to be done in the world.

— Eleanor Roosevelt

The world conspires to help those who are in love with the beauty of their dreams.

— Eleanor Roosevelt

Each generation supposes that the world was simpler for the one before it.

— Eleanor Roosevelt

To leave the world richer—that is the ultimate success.

— Eleanor Roosevelt

It is today that we create the world of the future.

— Eleanor Roosevelt

We will never have peace without friendship around the world.

— Eleanor Roosevelt

All the water in the world cannot drown you unless it gets inside of you.

— Eleanor Roosevelt

The mobilization of world opinion and methods of negotiation should be developed and used by every nation in order to strengthen the…

— Eleanor Roosevelt

Friendship with ones self is all important, because without it one cannot be friends with anyone else in the world.

— Eleanor Roosevelt

The basis of world peace is the teaching which runs through almost all the great religions of the world. Love thy neighbor…

— Eleanor Roosevelt

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

Hate and force cannot be in just a part of the world without having an effect on the rest of it.

— 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 learned then that practically no one in the world is entirely bad or entirely good, and that motives are often more…

— Eleanor Roosevelt

Human resources are the most valuable assets the world has. They are all needed desperately.

— Eleanor Roosevelt

what we need in the world is manners ... I think that if, instead of preaching brotherly love, we preached good manners,…

— Eleanor Roosevelt

Where, after all, do universal human rights begin? In small places, close to home - so close and so small that they…

— Eleanor Roosevelt

What we must learn to do is to create unbreakable bonds between the sciences and the humanities. We cannot procrastinate. The world…

— Eleanor Roosevelt

Of all the nations in the Western world, the United States, with the most money and the most time, has the fewest…

— Eleanor Roosevelt

Basically we could not have peace, or an atmosphere in which peace could grow, unless we recognized the rights of individual human…

— Eleanor Roosevelt

I kept praying that I might be able to prevent a repetition of this stupidity called war. I have tried to keep…

— Eleanor Roosevelt

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

How can we be such fools as to go on senselessly taking human life in this way? Why the women in every…

— Eleanor Roosevelt

All of us in this country give lip service to the ideals set forth in the Bill of Rights and emphasized by…

— Eleanor Roosevelt

You in the unions do not yet represent all of labor. But I hope some day you will, because I believe that…

— 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

A mature person is one who does not think only in absolutes, who is able to be objective even when deeply stirred…

— Eleanor Roosevelt

Where, after all, do universal human rights begin? In small places, close to home - so close and so small that they…

— Eleanor Roosevelt

I believe in active citizenship, for men and women equally, as a simple matter of right and justice. I believe we will…

— Eleanor Roosevelt

If many of our young people have lost the excitement of the early settlers, who had a country to explore and develop,…

— Eleanor Roosevelt

The American Dream can no more remain static than can the American nation… We cannot any longer take an old approach to…

— Eleanor Roosevelt

Nothing we learn in this world is ever wasted.

— Eleanor Roosevelt

Actors are one family over the entire world.

— Eleanor Roosevelt

We must be willing to learn the lesson that cooperation may imply compromise, but if it brings a world advance it is…

— Eleanor Roosevelt

Our obligation to the world is, primarily, our obligation to our own future. Obviously, we cannot develop beyond a certain point unless…

— Eleanor Roosevelt

When all is said and done, and statesmen discuss the future of the world, the fact remains that people fight these wars.

— Eleanor Roosevelt

If we fail to meet our problems here, no one else in the world will do so. If we fail, the heart…

— Eleanor Roosevelt

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

There is a widespread understanding among the people of this nation, and probably among the people of the world, that there is…

— Eleanor Roosevelt