Eleanor Roosevelt
...real prosperity can only come when everybody prospers.Collection: Real
the greatest luxury I know is sitting up reading in bed.Collection: Reading
Spiritual leadership should remain spiritual leadership and the temporal power should not become too important in any church.Collection: Leadership
Unused ability, like unused muscles, will atrophy.Collection: Action
You can't move so fast that you try to change the mores faster than people can accept it.Collection: Moving
Get out of the way as quickly as you're not needed.Collection: Way
Everybody wants something.Collection: Want Something
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.Collection: Adventure
I learned then that practically no one in the world is entirely bad or entirely good, and that motives are often more important than actions.Collection: Important
When all is said and done, and statesmen discuss the future of the world, the fact remains that people fight these wars.Collection: War
Perhaps the basic thing which contributes to charm is the ability to forget oneself and be engrossed in other people.Collection: People
Everyone has the right to work, to free choice of employment, to just and favorable conditions of work and to protection against unemployment.Collection: Choices
Curiosity must be kept alive.Collection: Inspirational Life
Manipulate the situation to create the reality of your desireCollection: Reality
The leisure class is one in which individuals have sufficient economic security and sufficient leisure to find opportunity for a variety of satisfactions in life.Collection: Opportunity
Caring comes from being able to put yourself in the position of the other person.Collection: Caring
To handle yourself, use your head; to handle others, use your heart. Anger is only one letter short of danger. If someone betrays you once, it is his fault; if he betrays you twice, it is your fault. Great minds discuss ideas; average minds discuss events; small minds discuss people. He who loses money, loses much; he who loses a friend, loses much more; he who loses faith, loses all.Collection: Heart
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.Collection: Country
It's your life - but only if you make it so. The standards by which you live must be your own standards, your own values, your own convictions in regard to what is right and wrong, what is true and false, what is important and what is trivial. When you adopt the standards and the values of someone else . . . you surrender your own integrity. You become, to the extent of your surrender, less of a human being.Collection: Integrity
A stumbling block to the pessimist is a stepping-stone to the optimist.Collection: Inspirational
Beautiful young people are accidents of nature, but beautiful old people are works of art.Collection: Birthday
Courage is more exhilarating than fear, and in the long run, it is easier.Collection: Running
Comparison is the thief of all joy.Collection: Joy
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.Collection: Strength
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.Collection: Party
Today is the oldest you've ever been, and the youngest you'll ever be again.Collection: Inspirational
The future is literally in our hands to mold as we like. But we cannot wait until tomorrow. Tomorrow is now.Collection: Future
...without equality there can be no democracy.Collection: Political
When you have decided what you believe, what you feel must be done, have the courage to stand alone and be countedCollection: Inspirational
No matter how plain a woman may be, if truth and honesty are written across her face, she will be beautiful.Collection: Beauty
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.Collection: Unique
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?Collection: War
Where, after all, do universal human rights begin? In small places, close to home - so close and so small that they cannot be seen on any maps of the world ... Such are the places where every man, woman and child seeks equal justice, equal opportunity, equal dignity without discrimination. Unless these rights have meaning there, they have little meaning anywhere.Collection: Inspiring
All of life is a constant education.Collection: Inspiring
Think as little as possible about yourself and as much as possible about other people.Collection: Positive
Education is the cornerstone of liberty.Collection: Education
If you lose money you lose much, If you lose friends you lose more, If you lose faith you lose all.Collection: Friends
We must preserve our right to think and differ.Collection: Thinking
A mature person is one who does not think only in absolutes, who is able to be objective even when deeply stirred emotionally, who has learned that there is both good and bad in all people and in all things, and who walks humbly and deals charitably with the circumstances of life, knowing that in this world no one is all knowing and therefore all of us need both love and charity.Collection: Life
Life is like a parachute jump, you've got to get it right the first time.Collection: Motivational
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.Collection: Years
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.Collection: Inspirational
When you adopt the standards and the values of someone else … you surrender your own integrity. You become, to the extent of your surrender, less of a human being.Collection: Integrity
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.Collection: Lonely
The more we simplify our material needs the more we are free to think of other things.Collection: Spiritual
Life is what you make it. Always has been, always will be.Collection: Inspirational
Remember always that you have not only the right to be an individual; you have an obligation to be one.Collection: Motivational
We are given in our newspapers and on TV and radio exactly what we, the public, insist on having, and this very frequently is mediocre information and mediocre entertainment.Collection: Media
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.Collection: Heart