Eleanor Roosevelt
No writing has any real value which is not the expression of genuine thought and feeling.Collection: Real
It is impossible to be a cynic if you live a good deal with young people. Fundamentally, every young person has a feeling that the future is going to hold something of value.Collection: People
In the long run there is no more exhilarating experience than to determine one's position, state it bravely and then act boldly.Collection: Running
Obedience may have its uses, but it is no substitute for willing, uncoerced co-operation.Collection: Use
If anyone were to ask me what I want out of life I would say- the opportunity for doing something useful, for in no other way, I am convinced, can true happiness be attained.Collection: Opportunity
I believe that all that we go through here must have some value.Collection: Believe
Life's not about expecting, hoping and wishing. It's about doing, being and becoming. It's about t Learn from the mistakes of others. You can't live long enough to make them all yourself.Collection: Life
I wonder if one of the penalties of growing older is that you become more and more conscious that nothing is very permanent.Collection: Entrepreneur
You achieve strength, braveness and confidence by each experience in which you really halt to search dread during the deal withCollection: Achieve
Nothing alive can stand still, it goes forward or back. Life is interesting only as long as it is a process of growth; or, to put it another way, we can only grow as long as we are interested.Collection: Long
Our real battlefield today is Asia and our real battle is the one between democracy and communism. . . . We have to prove to the world and particularly to downtrodden areas of the world which are the natural prey to the principles of communist economics that democracy really brings about happier and better conditions for the people as a whole.Collection: Real
It has been a long fight to put the control of our economic system in the hands of the government.Collection: Fighting
As life developed, I faced each problem as it came along. As my activities and work broadened and reached out, I never tried to shirk. I tried never to evade an issue. When I found I had something to do--I just did it.Collection: Courage
The mobilization of world opinion and methods of negotiation should be developed and used by every nation in order to strengthen the United Nations.Collection: Order
Great leaders inspire people to have confidence in themselves.Collection: People
It is so much easier to be enthusiastic than to reason!Collection: Enthusiasm
You do the things that need to be done according to priority.Collection: Priorities
Every age is an unknown country.Collection: Country
It is today that we create the world of the future.Collection: Learning
If you have any interests you can gain a wider audience for those interests while the goldfish bowl is yours!Collection: Political
You rarely achieve finality. If you did, life would be over, but as you strive new visions open before you, new possibilities for the satisfaction of living.Collection: Vision
Always be on time. Never try to make any personal engagements. Do as little talking as humanly possible. Never be disturbed by anything. Always do what you're told to do as quickly as possible. Remember to lean back in a parade, so that people can see your husband. Don't get too fat to ride three on a seat. Get out of the way as quickly as you're not needed.Collection: Husband
To me who dreamed so much as a child, who made a dreamworld in which I was the heroine of an unending story, the lives of people around me continued to have a certain storybook quality. I learned something which has stood me in good stead many times - The most important thing in any relationship is not what you get but what you give.Collection: Children
A day out-of-doors, someone I loved to talk with, a good book and some simple food and music - that would be rest.Collection: Love
All human beings are born free and equal in dignity and rights.Collection: Rights
True hospitality consists of giving the best of yourself to your guests.Collection: Giving
Life is meant to be lived.Collection: Life Is
Life has got to be lived - that's all there is to it. At seventy, I would say the advantage is that you take life more calmly. You know that 'this, too, shall pass!'Collection: Birthday
If you can develop this ability to see what you look at, to understand its meaning, to readjust your knowledge to this new information, you can continue to learn and to grow as long as you live and you’ll have a wonderful time doing it.Collection: Inspirational
One thing is for sure-none of the arts flourishes on censorship and repression. And by this time it should be evident that the American public is capable of doing its own censoring.Collection: Art
What we must learn to do is to create unbreakable bonds between the sciences and the humanities. We cannot procrastinate. The world of the future is in our making. Tomorrow is now.Collection: Humanity
Every time you meet a situation you think at the time it is an impossibility and you go through the tortures of the damned, once you have met it and lived through it, you find that forever after you are freer than you were before.Collection: Inspirational
We must know what we think and speak out, even at the risk of unpopularity.Collection: Thinking
Friends, you and me... you brought another friend... and then there were three... we started our group... our circle of friends... and like that circle... there is no beginning or end.Collection: Circles
Do something everyday that scares you.Collection: Everyday
Your life is your own. You mold it. You make it. All anyone can do is to point out ways and means which have been helpful to others. Perhaps they will serve as suggestions to stimulate your own thinking until you know what it is that will fulfill you, will help you to find out what you want to do with your life.Collection: Mean
We will never have peace without friendship around the world.Collection: World
I could not, at any age, be content to take my place by the fireside and simply look on. Life was meant to be lived. Curiosity must be kept alive. One must not, for whatever reason, turn his back on life." Another "No one can make you feel inferior without your consent.Collection: Strong Women
It is not that you set the individual apart from society but that you recognize in any society that the individual must have rights that are guarded.Collection: Rights
It takes courage to love, but pain through love is the purifying fire which those who love generously know.Collection: Love
The kind of man who thinks that helping with the dishes is beneath him will also think that helping with the baby is beneath him, and then he certainly is not going to be a very successful father.Collection: Fathers Day
On the whole our armed services have been doing pretty well in the way of keeping us defended, but I hope our State Department will remember that it is really the department of achieving peace.Collection: Way
This is a time for action not for war, but for mobilization of every bit of peace machinery.Collection: Peace
The purpose of life afterall is to live it.Collection: Purpose
The mind must be trained, rather than the memory.Collection: Memories
A great deal of fear is a result of just “not knowing.” We do not know what is involved in a new situation. We do not know whether we can deal with it. The sooner we learn what it entails, the sooner we can dissolve our fear.Collection: Inspirational
No human being can ever 'own' another, whether in friendship, love, marriage, or parenthood.Collection: Friendship Love
Develop a skin as thick as a rhinoceros hide!Collection: Skins
It is always disagreeable to take stands. It is always easier to compromise, always easier to let things go. To many women, and I am one of them, it is extraordinarily difficult to care about anything enough to cause disagreement or unpleasant feelings, but I have come to the conclusion that this must be done for a time until we can prove our strength and demand respect for our wishes. We cannot even be of real service in the coming campaign and speak as a united body of women unless we have the respect of men and show that when we express a wish, we are willing to stand by it.Collection: Real