Quotes By Eleanor Roosevelt

It is not fair to ask of others what you are not willing to do yourself.

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

A little simplification would be the first step toward rational living, I think.

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

Remember always that you not only have the right to be an individual, you have an obligation to be one.

If life were predictable it would cease to be life, and be without flavor.

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.

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

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

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

Too often the great decisions are originated and given form in bodies made up wholly of men, or so completely dominated by them that whatever of special value women have to offer is shunted aside without expression.

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.

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

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

The giving of love is an education in itself.

Anyone who knows history, particularly the history of Europe, will, I think, recognize that the domination of education or of government by any one particular religious faith is never a happy arrangement for the people.

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.

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

Actors are one family over the entire world.

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

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

Have convictions. Be friendly. Stick to your beliefs as they stick to theirs. Work as hard as they do.

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.

Campaign behavior for wives: Always be on time. Do as little talking as humanly possible. Lean back in the parade car so everybody can see the president.

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

People grow through experience if they meet life honestly and courageously. This is how character is built.

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.

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.

Understanding is a two-way street.

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