Best 464 quotes of Eleanor Roosevelt on MyQuotes

I wonder if one of the penalties of growing older is that you become more and more conscious that nothing is very permanent.

I would not be happy unless I had some regular work to do every day and I imagine that I will always feel that way no matter how old I am.

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

Keep us at tasks too hard for us that we may be driven to Thee for strength.

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?

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!'

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

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

Life is meant to be lived.

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

Life's not about expecting, hoping and wishing. It's about doing, being and becoming. It's about t Learn from the mistakes of others. You can't live long enough to make them all yourself.

Life was meant to be lived.

Long ago, I made up my mind that, when things were said involving only me, I would pay no attention to them, except when valid criticism was carried by which I could profit.

Long ago, there was a noble word, liberal, which derives from the word free. Now a strange thing happened to that word. A man named Hitler made it a term of abuse, a matter of suspicion, because those who were not with him were against him, and liberals had no use for Hitler. And then another man named McCarthy cast the same opprobrium on the word. ... We must cherish and honor the word free or it will cease to apply to us.

Losing money is a big loss, losing friends is greater than the loss, also lost all faith is lost

Love can often be misguided and do as much harm as good, but respect can do only good. It assumes that the other person's stature is as large as one's own, his rights as reasonable, his needs as important.

Mahatma Gandhi I would say had perhaps a greater spiritual quality whereas Winston Churchill had besides the courage, ability and above everything else, the ability to put into words what his people felt so that he could always lead them. And my own husband I think had great patience, which you need in a democracy because you have to come to do fundamental things, you have to have the patience to have people educated; and then I think he had a deep interest in human beings as human beings.

Manipulate the situation to create the reality of your desire

... many of the things which we deplore, the prevalence of tuberculosis, the mounting record of crime in certain sections of the country, are not due just to lack of education and to physical differences, but are due in great part to the basic fact of segregation which we have set up in this country and which warps and twists the lives not only of our Negro population, but sometimes of foreign born or even of religious groups.

Many people will walk in and out of your life, but only true friends will leave footprints in your heart

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.

More people are ruined by victory, I imagine, than be defeat.

Most women, I think, though they may complain a little about this, would agree that meeting the needs of others is not a real burden; it is what makes life worth living. It is probably the deepest satisfaction a woman has.

Mozart, who was buried in a pauper’s grave, was one of the greatest successes we know of, a man who in his early thirties had poured out his inexhaustible gift of music, leaving the world richer because he had passed that way. To leave the world richer—that is the ultimate success.

Mr. [Richard M.] Nixon never has anything but hindsight.

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

My life can be so arranged that I can live on whatever I have. If I cannot live as I have lived in the past, I shall live differently, and living differently does not mean living with less attention to the things that make life gracious and pleasant or with less enjoyment of things of the mind.

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 points of view. It is as though people would rather die than change.

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

Never be bored, and you will never be boring.

No, I have never wanted to be a man. I have often wanted to be more effective as a woman, but I have never felt that trousers would do the trick!

No leader can be too far ahead of his followers.

No man is defeated without until he has first been defeated within.

...no matter how avid they themselves may be for praise and appreciation, people are often niggardly in giving it to others, however merited it is.

No one can insult you without your permission.

No one from the beginning of time has had security.

Nothing alive can stand still, it goes forward or back. Life is interesting only as long as it is a process of growth; or, to put it another way, we can only grow as long as we are interested.

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

Nothing was ever accomplished by anyone who said 'It can't be done.'

No writing has any real value which is not the expression of genuine thought and feeling.

Obedience may have its uses, but it is no substitute for willing, uncoerced co-operation.

Of all the nations in the Western world, the United States, with the most money and the most time, has the fewest readers of books per capita. This is an incalculable loss. This, too, is one of the few civilized nations in the world which is unable to support a single magazine devoted solely to books.

Of course, I do not believe in having everyone who is a liberal called a communist, or everyone who is conservative called a fascist.

Of course Mahatma Gandhi you might say did not have so much physical vigor but he certainly seemed to have extraordinary resistance, which perhaps is rather different from physical vigor.

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

Once your children are grown up and have children of their own, the problems are theirs and the less the older generation interferes the better.

One of the best ways of enslaving a people is to keep them from education.

One of the best ways of enslaving a people is to keep them from education... The second way of enslaving a people is to suppress the sources of information, not only by burning books but by controlling all the other ways in which ideas are transmitted.

One should always sleep in all of one's guest beds, to make sure that they are comfortable.

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.