Eleanor Roosevelt quotes - page 2

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. (Eleanor Roosevelt)
When you are genuinely interested in one thing, it will always lead to something else.
Eleanor Roosevelt
Only a man's character is the real criterion of worth.
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
For 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 for it.
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 is own weight, this is a frightening prospect.
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
I can not believe that war is the best solution. No one won the last war, and no one will win the next war.
Eleanor Roosevelt
The giving of love is an education in itself.
Eleanor Roosevelt
Remember always that you not only have the right to be an individual, you have an obligation to be one.
Eleanor Roosevelt
It takes as much energy to wish as it does to plan. (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
We are afraid to care too much, for fear that the other person does not care at all.
Eleanor Roosevelt
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.
Eleanor Roosevelt
What you don't do can be a destructive force.
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
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.
Eleanor Roosevelt
As for accomplishments, I just did what I had to do as things came along.
Eleanor Roosevelt
The only things one can admire at length are those one admires without knowing why.
Eleanor Roosevelt
Anyone who thinks must think of the next war as they would of suicide.
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)
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.
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
You wouldn't worry so much about what others think of you if you realized how seldom they do.
Eleanor Roosevelt
It is better to light a single candle than to curse the darkness.
Eleanor Roosevelt