Quotes By Eleanor Roosevelt

One's philosophy is not best expressed in words; it is expressed in the choices one makes... and the choices we make are ultimately our responsibility.

Probably the happiest period in life most frequently is in middle age, when the eager passions of youth are cooled, and the infirmities of age not yet begun; as we see that the shadows, which are at morning and evening so large, almost entirely disappear at midday.

It is not more vacation we need - it is more vocation.

We are afraid to care too much, for fear that the other person does not care at all.

The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams.

The only advantage of not being too good a housekeeper is that your guests are so pleased to feel how very much better they are.

Women are like teabags. We don't know our true strength until we are in hot water!

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

Sometimes I wonder if we shall ever grow up in our politics and say definite things which mean something, or whether we shall always go on using generalities to which everyone can subscribe, and which mean very little.

When you cease to make a contribution, you begin to die.

Freedom makes a huge requirement of every human being. With freedom comes responsibility. For the person who is unwilling to grow up, the person who does not want to carry is own weight, this is a frightening prospect.

I have spent many years of my life in opposition, and I rather like the role.

Ambition is pitiless. Any merit that it cannot use it finds despicable.

Actors are one family over the entire world.

Old age has deformities enough of its own. It should never add to them the deformity of vice.

I think that somehow, we learn who we really are and then live with that decision.

Justice cannot be for one side alone, but must be for both.

You have to accept whatever comes and the only important thing is that you meet it with courage and with the best that you have to give.

I can not believe that war is the best solution. No one won the last war, and no one will win the next war.

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 become yourself.

Happiness is not a goal; it is a by-product.

I once had a rose named after me and I was very flattered. But I was not pleased to read the description in the catalogue: no good in a bed, but fine up against a wall.

Understanding is a two-way street.

I believe that anyone can conquer fear by doing the things he fears to do, provided he keeps doing them until he gets a record of successful experience behind him.

Great minds discuss ideas; average minds discuss events; small minds discuss people.

Do what you feel in your heart to be right- for you'll be criticized anyway. You'll be damned if you do, and damned if you don't.

My experience has been that work is almost the best way to pull oneself out of the depths.

Only a man's character is the real criterion of worth.

Never allow a person to tell you no who doesn't have the power to say yes.

I'm so glad I never feel important, it does complicate life!