Eleanor Roosevelt Quotes

To be mature you have to realize what you value most... Not to arrive at a clear understanding of one's own values is a tragic waste. You have missed the whole point of what life is for.

~ Eleanor Roosevelt

...so much attention is paid to the aggressive sins, such as violence and cruelty, and greed with all their tragic effects, that too little attention is paid to the passive sins, such as apathy and laziness, which in the long run can have a more devastating and destructive effect upon society than the others.

~ Eleanor Roosevelt

...our children must learn...to face full responsibility for their actions, to make their own choices and cope with the results...the whole democratic system...depends upon it. For our system is founded on self-government, which is untenable if the individuals who make up the system are unable to govern themselves.

~ Eleanor Roosevelt

It takes as much energy to wish as it does to plan.

~ Eleanor Roosevelt

It is a brave thing to have courage to be an individual; it is also, perhaps, a lonely thing. But it is better than not being an individual, which is to be nobody at all.

~ 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

...no one can afford not to be a man. No position can compensate for coming face to face with a robot when you are alone.

~ Eleanor Roosevelt

Will people ever be wise enough to refuse to follow bad leaders or to take away the freedom of other people?

~ Eleanor Roosevelt

...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.

~ Eleanor Roosevelt

Don't call a woman a bitch. Call her an ass-hole. It still gets your point across and it's not sexist.

~ Eleanor Roosevelt

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

~ Eleanor Roosevelt

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

One's philosophy is not best expressed in words; it is expressed in the choices one makes. 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

Pit race against race, religion against religion, prejudice against prejudice. Divide and conquer! We must not let that happen here.

~ Eleanor Roosevelt

What one has to do usually can be done.

~ Eleanor Roosevelt

Character building begins in our infancy and continues until death.

~ Eleanor Roosevelt

When you have decided what you believe what you feel must be done have the courage to stand alone and be counted.

~ Eleanor Roosevelt

Change means the unknown.

~ Eleanor Roosevelt

The only man who makes no mistakes is the man who never does anything.

~ Eleanor Roosevelt

Do not be afraid of mistakes providing you do not make the same one twice.

~ Eleanor Roosevelt

What you don't do can be a destructive force.

~ 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 at it.

~ 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

When you get to the end of your rope tie a knot in it and hang on.

~ Eleanor Roosevelt

You can't move so fast that you try to change [a situation] 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.

~ Eleanor Roosevelt

No one from the beginning of time has had security.

~ Eleanor Roosevelt

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

~ 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

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

~ Eleanor Roosevelt

Friendship with oneself is all-important because without it one cannot be friends with anyone else.

~ Eleanor Roosevelt

I'm glad I never feel important it does complicate life.

~ Eleanor Roosevelt

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

~ Eleanor Roosevelt

Somehow we learn who we really are and then live with that decision.

~ Eleanor Roosevelt

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

~ Eleanor Roosevelt

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

You gain strength courage and confidence by every experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face.... You must do the thing you think you cannot do.

~ 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 experiences behind him.

~ Eleanor Roosevelt

You must do the things you think you cannot do.

~ Eleanor Roosevelt