All Eleanor Roosevelt Quotes
- We must want for others, not ourselves alone. Alone
- No one from the beginning of time has had security. Adventure
- The most important thing in any relationship is not what you get but what you give.... In any case, the giving of love is an… Any
- Furnish an example, stop preaching, stop shielding, don't prevent self-reliance and initiative, allow your children to develop along thier own lines. Allow
- The trouble is that not enough people have come together with the firm determination to live the things which they say they believe. Believe
- Democracy cannot be static. Whatever is static is dead. Dead
- Nearly all great civilizations that perished did so because they had crystallized, because they were incapable of adapting themselves to new conditions, new methods, new… Adapting
- Where, after all, do universal human rights begin? In small places, close to home - so close and so small that they cannot be seen… All
- Life has got to be lived - that's all there is to it. All
- Nothing we learn in this world is ever wasted. Educational
- The kind of man who thinks that helping with the dishes is beneath him will also think that helping with the baby is beneath him,… Babies
- Basically we could not have peace, or an atmosphere in which peace could grow, unless we recognized the rights of individual human beings... their importance,… Acceptance
- All wars eventually act as boomerangs and the victor suffers as much as the vanquished. Act
- What I have learned from my own experience is that the most important ingredients in a child's education are curiosity, interest, imagination, and a sense… Adventure
- If human beings can be trained for cruelty and greed and a belief in power which comes through hate and fear and force, certainly we… Beings
- Anyone who has gone through great suffering is bound to have a greater sympathy and understanding of the problems of mankind. Anyone
- It seems to me that I cannot afford, as a self-respecting individual, to refuse to do a thing merely because it will make me disliked… Afford
- Women are like tea bags: put them in hot water and they get stronger. Bags
- America is built on speed. Hot, nasty, badass speed. America
- Philosophy is not best expressed in words; it is expressed in the choices one makes. Best