Eleanor Roosevelt
What you don't do can be a destructive force.
A little simplification would be the first step toward rational living, I think.
Ambition is pitiless. Any merit that it cannot use it finds despicable.
There are practical little things in housekeeping which no man really understands.
It is not more vacation we need - it is more vocation.
Only a man's character is the real criterion of worth.
I have spent many years of my life in opposition, and I rather like the role.
The only things one can admire at length are those one admires without knowing why.
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.
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.
Hate and force cannot be in just a part of the world without having an effect on the rest of it.
As for accomplishments, I just did what I had to do as things came along.
What one has to do usually can be done.
The Bible illustrated by Dore occupied many of my hours - and I think probably gave me many nightmares.
I'm so glad I never feel important, it does complicate life!
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.
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.
I do not think that I am a natural born mother... If I ever wanted to mother anyone, it was my father.
For our own success to be real, it must contribute to the success of others.Collection: Success
You gain strength, courage, and confidence by doing the thing which you think you cannot do.Collection: Running
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.Collection: Integrity
Tomorrow is a mystery. Today is a gift. That is why it is called the present.Collection: Inspirational
We gain strength, and courage, and confidence by each experience in which we really stop to look fear in the face... we must do that which we think we cannot.Collection: Inspirational
It is better to light a candle than curse the darkness.Collection: Inspirational
I can't tell you how to succeed, but I can tell you how to fail: Try to please everybody.Collection: Trying
I am who I am today because of the choices I made yesterday.Collection: Inspirational
You wouldn't worry so much about what others think of you if you realized how seldom they do.Collection: Inspirational
Many people will walk in and out of your life, but only true friends will leave footprints in your heartCollection: Friendship
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.Collection: Book
Some people are going to leave a mark on this world, while others will leave a stain.Collection: People
The purpose of life is to live it, to taste experience to the utmost, to reach out eagerly and without fear for newer and richer experience.Collection: Inspirational
Someone once asked me what I regarded as the three most important requirements for happiness. My answer was: A feeling that you have been honest with yourself and those around you; a feeling that you have done the best you could both in your personal life and in your work; and the ability to love others.Collection: Happiness
Nothing has ever been achieved by the person who says, ‘It can’t be done.’Collection: Inspirational
Pit race against race, religion against religion, prejudice against prejudice. Divide and conquer! We must not let that happen here.Collection: Race
The Marines I have seen around the world have the cleanest bodies, the filthiest minds, the highest morale, and the lowest morals of any group of animals I have ever seen. Thank God for the United States Marine Corps!Collection: Thank You
You can often change your circumstances by changing your attitudeCollection: Inspirational
If human beings can be trained for cruelty and greed and a belief in power which comes through hate and fear and force, certainly we can train equally well for greatness and mercy and the power of love which comes because of the strength of the good qualities to be found in the soul of every human being.Collection: Hate
There is nothing to regret, either for those who go, or for those who stay behind — only an inheritance of good accomplishment to be lived up to by those who carry a loving memory in their hearts.Collection: Regret
A candle can bring light to a dungeon but it can also be used to light a deadly marijuana cigarette.Collection: Marijuana
I could not at any age be content to take my place in a corner by the fireside and simply look on.Collection: Age
To be a citizen in a democracy, a human being must be given a healthy start.Collection: Healthy
Usefulness, whatever form it may take, is the price we should pay for the air we breathe and the food we eat and the privilege of being alive.Collection: Air
Happiness is not a goal, it is a by-product. Paradoxically, the one sure way not to be happy is deliberately to map out a way of life in which one would please oneself completely and exclusively.Collection: Business
I believe you should tell the story of injustices, of inequalities, of bad conditions, so that the people as a whole in this country really face the problems that people who are pushed to the point of striking know all about, but others know practically nothing about.Collection: Country
Success must include two things: the development of an individual to his utmost potentiality and a contribution of some kind to one's world.Collection: Two
Up to a certain point it is good for us to know that there are people in the world who will give us love and unquestioned loyalty to the limit of their ability. I doubt, however, if it is good for us to feel assured of this without the accompanying obligation of having to justify this devotion by our behavior.Collection: Loyalty
I do not want church groups controlling the schools of our country. They must remain free.Collection: Country
Nobody else is going to do the things which are yours to be done in the world.Collection: Done