Words matter. These are the best Eleanor Roosevelt Quotes, and they’re great for sharing with your friends.
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.
Great minds discuss ideas; average minds discuss events; small minds discuss people.
Ambition is pitiless. Any merit that it cannot use it finds despicable.
The battle for the individual rights of women is one of long standing and none of us should countenance anything which undermines it.
When life is too easy for us, we must beware or we may not be ready to meet the blows which sooner or later come to everyone, rich or poor.
If life were predictable it would cease to be life, and be without flavor.
There are practical little things in housekeeping which no man really understands.
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.
The Bible illustrated by Dore occupied many of my hours – and I think probably gave me many nightmares.
I do not think that I am a natural born mother… If I ever wanted to mother anyone, it was my father.
What one has to do usually can be done.
I used to tell my husband that, if he could make me ‘understand’ something, it would be clear to all the other people in the country.
Old age has deformities enough of its own. It should never add to them the deformity of vice.
People grow through experience if they meet life honestly and courageously. This is how character is built.
When will our consciences grow so tender that we will act to prevent human misery rather than avenge it?
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.
The mother of a family should look upon her housekeeping and the planning of meals as a scientific occupation.
In all our contacts it is probably the sense of being really needed and wanted which gives us the greatest satisfaction and creates the most lasting bond.
Actors are one family over the entire world.
I think I lived those years very impersonally. It was almost as though I had erected someone outside myself who was the president’s wife. I was lost somewhere deep down inside myself. That is the way I felt and worked until I left the White House.
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.
What you don’t do can be a destructive force.
The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams.
You gain strength, courage, and confidence by every experience in which you really stop to 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.’
As for accomplishments, I just did what I had to do as things came along.
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.
We are afraid to care too much, for fear that the other person does not care at all.
You can’t move so fast that you try to change the mores faster than people can accept it. That doesn’t mean you do nothing, but it means that you do the things that need to be done according to priority.
Life must be lived and curiosity kept alive. One must never, for whatever reason, turn his back on life.
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.
