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Top 10 Eleanor Roosevelt Quotes

  1. The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams.
  2. Great minds discuss ideas; average minds discuss events; small minds discuss people.
  3. Do one thing every day that scares you.
  4. We gain strength, and courage, and confidence by each experience in which we really stop to look fear in the face... we must do that which we think we cannot.
  5. Do what you feel in your heart to be right - for you’ll be criticized anyway.
  6. Today is the oldest you've ever been, and the youngest you'll ever be again. Keep the child in You alive
  7. Many people will walk in and out of your life, but only true friends will leave footprints in your heart
  8. You gain strength, courage and confidence by every experience which you must stop and look fear in the face.
  9. Pit race against race, religion against religion, prejudice against prejudice. Divide and conquer! We must not let that happen here.
  10. A woman is like a tea bag - you can't tell how strong she is until you put her in hot water.
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Do one thing every day that scares you. - Eleanor Roosevelt

Do one thing every day that scares you. — Eleanor Roosevelt

Do what you feel in your heart to be right - for you’ll be criticized anyway. - Eleanor Roosevelt

Do what you feel in your heart to be right - for you’ll be criticized anyway. — Eleanor Roosevelt

No one can make you feel inferior without your consent. - Eleanor Roosevelt

No one can make you feel inferior without your consent. — Eleanor Roosevelt

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

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

It is better to light a candle than curse the darkness. - Eleanor Roosevelt

It is better to light a candle than curse the darkness. — Eleanor Roosevelt

Nothing has ever been achieved by the person who says, ‘It can’t be done.’ - Eleanor Roosevelt

Nothing has ever been achieved by the person who says, ‘It can’t be done.’ — Eleanor Roosevelt

With the new day comes new strength and new thoughts. - Eleanor Roosevelt

With the new day comes new strength and new thoughts. — Eleanor Roosevelt

Tomorrow is a mystery. Today is a gift. That is why it is called the present. - Eleanor Roosevelt

Tomorrow is a mystery. Today is a gift. That is why it is called the present. — Eleanor Roosevelt

You must do the things you think you cannot do. - Eleanor Roosevelt
You must do the things you think you cannot do.
It takes as much energy to wish as it does to plan. - Eleanor Roosevelt

It takes as much energy to wish as it does to plan. — Eleanor Roosevelt

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

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

When you cease to make a contribution, you begin to die. - Eleanor Roosevelt

When you cease to make a contribution, you begin to die. — Eleanor Roosevelt

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

Happiness is not a goal; it is a by-product. — Eleanor Roosevelt

Happiness is not a goal... it's a by-product of a life well lived. - Eleanor Roosevelt
Happiness is not a goal... it's a by-product of a life well lived.
Character building begins in our infancy and continues until death. - Eleanor Roosevelt

Character building begins in our infancy and continues until death. — Eleanor Roosevelt

Eleanor Roosevelt Short Quotes

  • No one can make you feel inferior without your consent.
  • It is not fair to ask of others what you are not willing to do yourself.
  • It is better to light a candle than curse the darkness.
  • With the new day comes new strength and new thoughts.
  • It takes as much energy to wish as it does to plan.
  • Never allow a person to tell you no who doesn't have the power to say yes.
  • When you cease to make a contribution, you begin to die.
  • Happiness is not a goal; it is a by-product.
  • You always admire what you really don't understand.
  • You wouldn't worry so much about what others think of you if you realized how seldom they do.
I think that somehow, we learn who we really are and then live with that decision. - Eleanor Roosevelt
I think that somehow, we learn who we really are and then live with that decision.

Eleanor Roosevelt Quotes About Love

I am who I am today because of the choices I made yesterday. — Eleanor Roosevelt

Anger is one letter short of danger. — Eleanor Roosevelt

Absence makes the heart grow fonder — Eleanor Roosevelt

Anger is only one letter short of danger. - Eleanor Roosevelt
Anger is only one letter short of danger.

The giving of love and understanding is an education in itself. — Eleanor Roosevelt

Enjoy every minute you have with those you love, my dear, for no one can take joy that is past away from you. It will be there in your heart to live on when the dark days come. — Eleanor Roosevelt

It takes courage to love, but pain through love is the purifying fire which those who love generously know. — Eleanor Roosevelt

Do what you feel in your heart to be right, for you’ll be criticized anyways. - Eleanor Roosevelt
Do what you feel in your heart to be right, for you’ll be criticized anyways.

The basis of world peace is the teaching which runs through almost all the great religions of the world. Love thy neighbor as thyself. — Eleanor Roosevelt

No human being can ever "own" another, whether in friendship, love, marriage or parenthood. Many human relationships have been ruined and happiness far too often changed to misery by a failure to understand this. — Eleanor Roosevelt

For all of us, as we grow older, perhaps the most important thing is to keep alive our love of others and to believe that our love and interest are as vitally necessary to them as to us. This is what makes us keep on growing and refills the fountains of energy. — Eleanor Roosevelt

We must do that which we think we cannot. — Eleanor Roosevelt

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motivational quote by Eleanor Roosevelt

Eleanor Roosevelt Quotes About Leadership

To handle yourself, use your head; to handle others, use your heart. — Eleanor Roosevelt

Courage is more exhilarating than fear, and in the long run, it is easier. — Eleanor Roosevelt

The choices we make are ultimately our responsibility. — Eleanor Roosevelt

It is better to light a candle than curse the darkness. - Eleanor Roosevelt
It is better to light a candle than curse the darkness.

Spiritual leadership should remain spiritual leadership and the temporal power should not become too important in any church. — Eleanor Roosevelt

I believe that it is essential to our leadership in the world and to the development of true democracy in our country to have no discrimination in our country whatsoever. This is most important in the schools of our country. — Eleanor Roosevelt

No one can move without some leadership. — Eleanor Roosevelt

If someone betrays you once, it's their fault. If they betray you twice, it's your fault. - Eleanor Roosevelt
If someone betrays you once, it's their fault. If they betray you twice, it's your fault.

I have complete faith in the American people's ability if they know and if they have leadership. — Eleanor Roosevelt

I feel quite sure that the American people, if they have knowledge and leadership, can meet any crisis just as well as they met it over and over again in the past. — Eleanor Roosevelt

Perhaps in His wisdom the Almighty is trying to show us that a leader may chart the way, may point out the road to lasting peace, but that many leaders and many peoples must do the building. — Eleanor Roosevelt

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motivational quote by Eleanor Roosevelt

Eleanor Roosevelt Quotes About Human Rights

Where, after all, do universal human rights begin? In small places, close to home. — Eleanor Roosevelt

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, their dignity... and agreed that was the basic thing that had to be accepted throughout the world. — Eleanor Roosevelt

All human beings are born free and equal in dignity and rights. — Eleanor Roosevelt

The purpose of life, after all, is to live it, to taste experience to the utmost, to reach out eagerly and wit - Eleanor Roosevelt
The purpose of life, after all, is to live it, to taste experience to the utmost, to reach out eagerly and without fear for newer and richer experience.

The destiny of human rights is in the hands of all our citizens in all our communities. — Eleanor Roosevelt

Everyone has the right to freedom of thought, conscience and religion; this right includes freedom to change his religion or belief, and freedom, either alone or in community with others and in public or private, to manifest his religion or belief in teaching, practice, worship and observance. — Eleanor Roosevelt

We stand today at the threshold of a great event both in the life of the United Nations and in the life of mankind, that is the approval by the General Assembly of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. — Eleanor Roosevelt

The family is the natural and fundamental group unit of society and is entitled to protection by society and the State. — Eleanor Roosevelt

Everyone has the right to rest and leisure, including reasonable limitation of working hours and periodic holidays with pay. — Eleanor Roosevelt

The will of the people shall be the basis of the authority of government. — Eleanor Roosevelt

It seems to me that it is the basic right of any human being to work. — Eleanor Roosevelt

Eleanor Roosevelt Quotes About Age

Beautiful young people are accidents of nature, but beautiful old people are works of art. — Eleanor Roosevelt

I could not, at any age, be content to take my place by the fireside and simply look on. Life was meant to be lived. Curiosity must be kept alive. One must not, for whatever reason, turn his back on life." Another "No one can make you feel inferior without your consent. — Eleanor Roosevelt

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. — Eleanor Roosevelt

The greatest tragedy of old age is the tendency for the old to feel unneeded, unwanted, and of no use to anyone; the secret of happiness in the declining years is to remain interested in life, as active as possible, useful to others, busy, and forward looking. — Eleanor Roosevelt

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

At any age it does us no harm to look over our past shortcomings and plan to improve our characters and actions in the coming year. — Eleanor Roosevelt

Beautiful old people are works of art. — Eleanor Roosevelt

One of the blessings of age is to learn not to part on a note of sharpness, to treasure the moments spent with those we love, and to make them whenever possible good to remember, for time is short. — Eleanor Roosevelt

I could not at any age be content to take my place in a corner by the fireside and simply look on. — Eleanor Roosevelt

Every age is an unknown country. — Eleanor Roosevelt

Eleanor Roosevelt Quotes About Peace

It isn't enough to talk about peace. One must believe in it. And it isn't enough to believe in it. One must work at it. — Eleanor Roosevelt

We will never have peace without friendship around the world. — Eleanor Roosevelt

On the whole our armed services have been doing pretty well in the way of keeping us defended, but I hope our State Department will remember that it is really the department of achieving peace. — Eleanor Roosevelt

If we want a free and peaceful world, if we want to make the deserts bloom and man grow to greater dignity as a human being-we can do it. — Eleanor Roosevelt

Before we can make friends with anyone else, we must first make friends with ourselves. — Eleanor Roosevelt

We have to face the fact that either all of us are going to die together or we are going to learn to live together and if we are to live together we have to talk. — Eleanor Roosevelt

This is a time for action — not for war, but for mobilization of every bit of peace machinery. — Eleanor Roosevelt

All wars eventually act as boomerangs and the victor suffers as much as the vanquished. — Eleanor Roosevelt

At all times, day by day, we have to continue fighting for freedom of religion, freedom of speech, and freedom from want... for these are things that must be gained in peace as well as in war. — Eleanor Roosevelt

We will have to want peace, want it enough to pay for it, before it becomes an accepted rule. — Eleanor Roosevelt

Eleanor Roosevelt Quotes About Fear

When you look fear in the face, you are able to say to yourself, 'I lived through this horror. I can take the next thing that comes along.' — Eleanor Roosevelt

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

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. — Eleanor Roosevelt

Courage is more exhilarating than fear and in the long run it is easier. We do not have to become heroes over night. Just a step at a time, meeting each thing that comes up, seeing it is not as dreadful as it appeared, discovering we have the strength to stare it down. — Eleanor Roosevelt

You gain strength, courage, and confidence by doing the thing which you think you cannot do. — Eleanor Roosevelt

I believe that anyone can conquer fear by doing the things he fears to do. — Eleanor Roosevelt

The purpose of life, after all, is to live it, to taste experience to the utmost, to reach out eagerly and without fear for newer and richer experiences. — Eleanor Roosevelt

Every day do something that frightens you. — Eleanor Roosevelt

A great deal of fear is a result of just “not knowing.” We do not know what is involved in a new situation. We do not know whether we can deal with it. The sooner we learn what it entails, the sooner we can dissolve our fear. — Eleanor Roosevelt

You get strength and courage, when you stop to look fear in the face. — Eleanor Roosevelt

Eleanor Roosevelt Quotes About Life

Tomorrow is a mystery. Today is a gift. That is why it is called the present. - Eleanor Roosevelt

Tomorrow is a mystery. Today is a gift. That is why it is called the present. — Eleanor Roosevelt

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

Character building begins in our infancy and continues until death. - Eleanor Roosevelt

Character building begins in our infancy and continues until death. — Eleanor Roosevelt

You rarely achieve finality. If you did, life would be over, but as you strive new visions open before you, new possibilities for the satisfaction of living. — Eleanor Roosevelt

Life must be lived and curiosity kept alive. One must never, for whatever reason, turn his back on life. — Eleanor Roosevelt

Life is what you make it. Always has been, always will be. — Eleanor Roosevelt

Life is like a parachute jump, you've got to get it right the first time. — Eleanor Roosevelt

Life has got to be lived - that's all there is to it. At seventy, I would say the advantage is that you take life more calmly. You know that 'this, too, shall pass!' — Eleanor Roosevelt

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

The important thing is neither your nationality nor the religion you professed, but how your faith translated itself in your life. — Eleanor Roosevelt

Eleanor Roosevelt Quotes About Marriage

No human being can ever 'own' another, whether in friendship, love, marriage, or parenthood. — Eleanor Roosevelt

Marriage and the up-bringing of children in the home require as well-trained a mind and as well-disciplined a character as any other occupation that might be considered a career. — Eleanor Roosevelt

You need not be proud of me.... I'm only being active till you can be again--it isn't such a great desire on my part to serve theworld and I'll fall back into habits of sloth quite easily! — Eleanor Roosevelt

I think we ought to impress on both our girls and boys that successful marriages require just as much work, just as much intelligence and just as much unselfish devotion, as they give to any position they undertake to fill on a paid basis. — Eleanor Roosevelt

Success in marriage depends on being able, when you get over being in love, to really love....You never know anyone until you marry them. — Eleanor Roosevelt

Eleanor Roosevelt Quotes About Strong

Women are like tea bags.They do not know how strong they are until they get into hot water. — Eleanor Roosevelt

Life was meant to be lived. — Eleanor Roosevelt

I have a great belief in spiritual force, but I think we have to realize that spiritual force alone has to have material force with it so long as we live in a material world. The two together make a strong combination. — Eleanor Roosevelt

If you take stands in any way and people feel that you have any success in - a following, why those who disagree with you are going to feel very strongly about it. — Eleanor Roosevelt

I think that in great crises you need to have deep rooted convictions and I have a feeling from the kind of campaigns that I have watched Mr. Nixon in in the past that his convictions are not very strong. — Eleanor Roosevelt

Eleanor Roosevelt Quotes About Inspiring

Nothing has ever been achieved by the person who says, ‘It can’t be done.’ - Eleanor Roosevelt

Nothing has ever been achieved by the person who says, ‘It can’t be done.’ — Eleanor Roosevelt

For our own success to be real, it must contribute to the success of others. — Eleanor Roosevelt

A stumbling block to the pessimist is a stepping-stone to the optimist. — Eleanor Roosevelt

Today is the oldest you've ever been, and the youngest you'll ever be again. — Eleanor Roosevelt

Do not stop thinking of life as an adventure. You have no security unless you can live bravely, excitingly, imaginatively; unless you can choose a challenge instead of competence. — Eleanor Roosevelt

All of life is a constant education. — Eleanor Roosevelt

No leader can be too far ahead of his followers. — Eleanor Roosevelt

One thing life has taught me: if you are interested, you never have to look for new interests. They come to you. When you are genuinely interested in one thing, it will always lead to something else. — Eleanor Roosevelt

Philosophy is not best expressed in words; it is expressed in the choices one makes. — Eleanor Roosevelt

Curiosity must be kept alive. — Eleanor Roosevelt

Eleanor Roosevelt Quotes About People

True patriotism springs from a belief in the dignity of the individual, freedom and equality not only for Americans but for all people on earth, universal brotherhood and good will, and a constant and earnest striving toward the principles and ideals on which this country was founded. — Eleanor Roosevelt

Poor minds talk about people average minds talk about events great minds talk about ideas — Eleanor Roosevelt

a society in which there is widespread economic insecurity can turn freedom into a barren and vapid right for millions of people. — Eleanor Roosevelt

The reason that fiction is more interesting than any other form of literature, to those who really like to study people, is that in fiction the author can really tell the truth without humiliating himself. — Eleanor Roosevelt

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

The trouble is that not enough people have come together with the firm determination to live the things which they say they believe. — Eleanor Roosevelt

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. — Eleanor Roosevelt

I believe you should tell the story of injustices, of inequalities, of bad conditions, so that the people as a whole in this country really face the problems that people who are pushed to the point of striking know all about, but others know practically nothing about. — Eleanor Roosevelt

...conservation of land and conservation of people frequently go hand in hand. — Eleanor Roosevelt

Happiness is not a goal, it is a by-product. For what keeps our interest in life and makes us look forward to tomorrow is giving pleasure to other people. — Eleanor Roosevelt

Eleanor Roosevelt Quotes About World

The Marines I have seen around the world have the cleanest bodies, the filthiest minds, the highest morale, and the lowest morals of any group of animals I have ever seen. Thank God for the United States Marine Corps! — 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

Friendship with oneself is all-important, because without it one cannot be friends with anyone else in the 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 a gain for each individual nation. — Eleanor Roosevelt

I have always seen life personally; my interest or sympathy or indignation is not aroused by an abstract cause but by the plight of a single person...Out of my response to an individual develops an awareness of a problem to the community, then to the country, then to the world. — 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

If we fail to meet our problems here, no one else in the world will do so. If we fail, the heart goes out of progressives throughout the world. — 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 world. — Eleanor Roosevelt

There is a widespread understanding among the people of this nation, and probably among the people of the world, that there is no safety except through the prevention of war. — Eleanor Roosevelt

Eleanor Roosevelt Quotes About Experience

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

It is a curious thing in human experience, but to live through a period of stress and sorrow with another person, creates a bond which nothing seems able to break. — Eleanor Roosevelt

If you approach each new person you meet in a spirit of adventure, you will find yourself endlessly fascinated by the new channels of thought and experience and personality that you encounter. — Eleanor Roosevelt

In the long run there is no more exhilarating experience than to determine one's position, state it bravely and then act boldly. — Eleanor Roosevelt

Feelings, too, are facts. Emotion is a fact. Human experience is a fact. It is often possible to gain more real insight into human beings and their motivation by reading great fiction than by personal acquaintance. — Eleanor Roosevelt

Your ambition should be to get as much life out of living as you possibly can, as much enjoyment, as much interest, as much experience, as much understanding. Not simply be what is generally called a 'success.' — Eleanor Roosevelt

If you prepare yourself at every point as well as you can, with whatever means you may have, however meager they may seem, you will be able to grasp opportunity for broader experience when it appears. Without preparation you cannot do it. — Eleanor Roosevelt

You achieve strength, braveness and confidence by each experience in which you really halt to search dread during the deal with — Eleanor Roosevelt

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 of the adventure of life. — Eleanor Roosevelt

Because they have so little, children must rely on imagination rather than experience. — Eleanor Roosevelt

Eleanor Roosevelt Quotes About Live

In the long run, we shape our lives, and we shape ourselves. The process never ends until we die. And the choices we make are ultimately our own responsibility. — Eleanor Roosevelt

Learn from the mistakes of others, you can't live long enough to make them all yourself. — Eleanor Roosevelt

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. — Eleanor Roosevelt

The purpose of life afterall is to live it. — Eleanor Roosevelt

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

Every time you meet a situation you think at the time it is an impossibility and you go through the tortures of the damned, once you have met it and lived through it, you find that forever after you are freer than you were before. — Eleanor Roosevelt

Autobiographies are only useful as the lives you read about and analyze may suggest to you something that you may find useful in your own journey through life. — Eleanor Roosevelt

There is nothing to regret, either for those who go, or for those who stay behind — only an inheritance of good accomplishment to be lived up to by those who carry a loving memory in their hearts. — Eleanor Roosevelt

I think somehow we learn who we really are and then we live with that decision. — Eleanor Roosevelt

Life has got to be lived - that's all there is to it. — Eleanor Roosevelt

Eleanor Roosevelt Famous Quotes And Sayings

Do one thing every day that scares you. - Eleanor Roosevelt

Do one thing every day that scares you. — Eleanor Roosevelt

Do what you feel in your heart to be right - for you’ll be criticized anyway. - Eleanor Roosevelt

Do what you feel in your heart to be right - for you’ll be criticized anyway. — Eleanor Roosevelt

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

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

Someone once asked me what I regarded as the three most important requirements for happiness. My answer was: A feeling that you have been honest with yourself and those around you; a feeling that you have done the best you could both in your personal life and in your work; and the ability to love others. — Eleanor Roosevelt

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 can train equally well for greatness and mercy and the power of love which comes because of the strength of the good qualities to be found in the soul of every human being. — Eleanor Roosevelt

It is better to light a candle than curse the darkness. - Eleanor Roosevelt

It is better to light a candle than curse the darkness. — Eleanor Roosevelt

Nothing has ever been achieved by the person who says, ‘It can’t be done.’ - Eleanor Roosevelt

Nothing has ever been achieved by the person who says, ‘It can’t be done.’ — Eleanor Roosevelt

I think, at a child's birth, if a mother could ask a fairy godmother to endow it with the most useful gift, that gift should be curiosity. — Eleanor Roosevelt

With the new day comes new strength and new thoughts. - Eleanor Roosevelt

With the new day comes new strength and new thoughts. — Eleanor Roosevelt

Tomorrow is a mystery. Today is a gift. That is why it is called the present. - Eleanor Roosevelt

Tomorrow is a mystery. Today is a gift. That is why it is called the present. — Eleanor Roosevelt

No matter how plain a woman may be, if truth and honesty are written across her face, she will be beautiful. — Eleanor Roosevelt

It takes as much energy to wish as it does to plan. - Eleanor Roosevelt

It takes as much energy to wish as it does to plan. — Eleanor Roosevelt

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

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

When will our consciences grow so tender that we will act to prevent human misery rather than avenge it? — Eleanor Roosevelt

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. — Eleanor Roosevelt

When you cease to make a contribution, you begin to die. - Eleanor Roosevelt

When you cease to make a contribution, you begin to die. — Eleanor Roosevelt

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

Happiness is not a goal; it is a by-product. — Eleanor Roosevelt

Character building begins in our infancy and continues until death. - Eleanor Roosevelt

Character building begins in our infancy and continues until death. — Eleanor Roosevelt

It takes courage to love, but pain through love is the purifying fire which those who love generously know. We all know people who are so much afraid of pain that they shut themselves up like clams in a shell and, giving out nothing, receive nothing and therefore shrink until life is a mere living death. — Eleanor Roosevelt

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 his own weight, this is a frightening prospect. — Eleanor Roosevelt

It seems to me of great importance to teach children respect for life. Towards this end, experiments on living animals in classrooms should be stopped. To encourage cruelty in the name of science can only destroy the finer emotions of affection and sympathy, and breed an unfeeling callousness in the young towards suffering in all living creatures. — Eleanor Roosevelt

Friends, you and me... you brought another friend... and then there were three... we started our group... our circle of friends... and like that circle... there is no beginning or end. — Eleanor Roosevelt

If you lose money you lose much, If you lose friends you lose more, If you lose faith you lose all. — Eleanor Roosevelt

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. — Eleanor Roosevelt

Nobody can make you feel inferior without your consent. — Eleanor Roosevelt

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

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. — Eleanor Roosevelt

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

Lest I keep my complacent way I must remember somewhere out there a person died for me today. As long as there must be war, I ask and I must answer was I worth dying for? — Eleanor Roosevelt

The future is literally in our hands to mold as we like. But we cannot wait until tomorrow. Tomorrow is now. — Eleanor Roosevelt

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

Since you get more joy out of giving joy to others, you should put a good deal of thought into the happiness that you are able to give. — Eleanor Roosevelt

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

You must do the things you think you cannot do. — Eleanor Roosevelt

Power corrupts. Knowledge is power. Study hard. Be evil. — Eleanor Roosevelt

What one has to do usually can be done. — Eleanor Roosevelt

If you have any interests you can gain a wider audience for those interests while the goldfish bowl is yours! — Eleanor Roosevelt

So, after all, we are but puppets, creatures of our fate, not commanding it but being molded by it. — Eleanor Roosevelt

Perhaps nature is our best assurance of immortality. — Eleanor Roosevelt

Some friends leave footprints in your heart — Eleanor Roosevelt

All of us ... should remember that no amount of flag-waving, pledging allegiance, or fervent singing of the national anthem is evidence that we are patriotic in the real sense of the word. ... Outward behavior, while important, is not the real measure of a man's patriotism. — Eleanor Roosevelt

Since everybody is an individual, nobody can be you. You are unique. No one can tell you how to use your time. It is yours. Your life is your own. You mold it. You make it. — Eleanor Roosevelt

...but there isn't going to be any First Lady. There is just to be plain, ordinary Mrs. Roosevelt...I never wanted to be the president's wife, and don't want it now. You don't quite believe me, do you? Very likely no one would-except possibly some woman who had had the job. — Eleanor Roosevelt

You never know anyone until you marry them. — Eleanor Roosevelt

Life Lessons by Eleanor Roosevelt

  1. Eleanor Roosevelt taught the importance of standing up for what you believe in and advocating for the rights of others. She showed that it is possible to make a difference and that everyone has a responsibility to make the world a better place.
  2. Eleanor Roosevelt also showed that it is possible to overcome adversity and to use difficult experiences to become stronger and wiser. She was an advocate for the disadvantaged and used her influence to make a difference.
  3. Eleanor Roosevelt also taught the importance of self-confidence and self-care. She believed in the power of being true to yourself and taking care of your mental and physical health.
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