Eleanor Roosevelt
No one can insult you without your permission.Collection: Insults You
This is not a time when women should be patient. We are in a war and we need to fight it with all our ability and every weapon possible. Women pilots, in this particular case, are a weapon waiting to be used.Collection: Women
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.Collection: Freedom
We must want for others, not ourselves alone.Collection: Inspirational
Life has got to be lived - that's all there is to it.Collection: Life
Will people ever be wise enough to refuse to follow bad leaders or to take away the freedom of other people?Collection: Wise
All human beings have failings, all human beings have needs and temptations and stresses. Men and women who live together through long years get to know one another's failings; but they also come to know what is worthy of respect and admiration in those they live with and in themselves. If at the end one can say, This man used to the limit the powers that God granted him; he was worthy of love and respect and of the sacrifices of many people, made in order that he might achieve what he deemed to be his task, then that life has been lived well and there are no regrets.Collection: Love
Somewhere along the line of development we discover what we really are and then make our real decision for which we are responsible. Make that decision primarily for yourself because you can never really live anyone else's lie, not even your child's. The influence you exert is through your own life and what you become yourself.Collection: Life
No man is defeated without until he has first been defeated within.Collection: Acceptance
Love can often be misguided and do as much harm as good, but respect can do only good. It assumes that the other person's stature is as large as one's own, his rights as reasonable, his needs as important.Collection: Rights
The basis of world peace is the teaching which runs through almost all the great religions of the world. "Love thy neighbor as thyself." Christ, some of the other great Jewish teachers, Buddha, all preached it. Their followers forgot it. What is the trouble between capital and labor, what is the trouble in many of our communities, but rather a universal forgetting that this teaching is one of our first obligations.Collection: Running
No leader can be too far ahead of his followers.Collection: Inspirational
The freedom of man, I contend, is the freedom to eat.Collection: Men
I consider those are rich who are doing something they feel worthwhile and which they enjoy doing.Collection: Rich
One of the best ways of enslaving a people is to keep them from education.Collection: Education
Never be bored, and you will never be boring.Collection: Bored
There is a desire for progress in the hearts of all men, and it is the sense of frustration and inability to move forward that brings violent revolution.Collection: Moving
A trait no other nation seems to possess in quite the same degree as we do namely, a feeling of almost childish injury and resentment unless the world as a whole recognizes how innocent we are of anything but the most generous and harmless intentionsCollection: Feelings
The will of the people shall be the basis of the authority of government.Collection: Government
Sailors have the cleanest bodies and the filthiest minds.Collection: Mind
I think we ought to impress on both our girls and boys that successful marriages require just as much work, just as much intelligence and just as much unselfish devotion, as they give to any position they undertake to fill on a paid basis.Collection: Girl
The important thing is neither your nationality nor the religion you professed, but how your faith translated itself in your life.Collection: Religion
Staying aloof is not a solution, it is a cowardly evasion.Collection: Staying
It is curious how much more interest can be evoked by a mixture of gossip, romance and mystery than by facts.Collection: Gossip
The most important thing in any relationship is not what you get but what you give.... In any case, the giving of love is an education in itself.Collection: Caring
If you have to compromise, be sure to compromise up.Collection: Compromise
I have often felt that I cheated my children a little. I was never so totally theirs as most mothers are. I gave to audiences whatbelonged to my children, got back from audiences the love my children longed to give me.Collection: Mother
I do not think I will ever become deadened, because I live in other people's lives, I must admit there are times when it weighs medown because I can't do some of the things I want.Collection: Thinking
... any citizen should be willing to give all that he has to give his country in work or sacrifice in times of crisis.Collection: Country
Somehow we must be able to show people that democracy is not about words, but action.Collection: People
Ability is not something to be saved, like money, in the hope that you can draw interest on it. The interest comes from the spending. Unused ability, like unused muscles, will atrophy. It is tragic to realize that the majority of human beings, even the so-called educated, call upon only the smallest fraction of their potential capacity. They leave many talents dormant. They fail to develop their mental qualities. They are almost unaware of the degree of energy upon which they might call to build a full and rewarding life.Collection: Quality
Each of us has... all the time there is. Those years, weeks, hours, are the sands in the glass running swiftly away. To let them drift through our fingers is tragic waste. To use them to the hilt, making them count for something, is the beginning of wisdom.Collection: Running
When you know to laugh and when to look upon things as too absurd to take seriously, the other person is ashamed to carry through even if he was serious about it.Collection: Laughing
Everyone has the right to rest and leisure, including reasonable limitation of working hours and periodic holidays with pay.Collection: Holiday
The family is the natural and fundamental group unit of society and is entitled to protection by society and the State.Collection: Society
So, after all, we are but puppets, creatures of our fate, not commanding it but being molded by it.Collection: Fate
Once your children are grown up and have children of their own, the problems are theirs and the less the older generation interferes the better.Collection: Children
Marriage and the up-bringing of children in the home require as well-trained a mind and as well-disciplined a character as any other occupation that might be considered a career.Collection: Children
I have a great belief in spiritual force, but I think we have to realize that spiritual force alone has to have material force with it so long as we live in a material world. The two together make a strong combination.Collection: Spiritual
We women are callow fledglings as compared with the wise old birds who manipulate the political machinery, and we still hesitate to believe that a woman can fill certain positions in public life as competently and adequately as a man. For instance, it is certain that women do not want a woman for President. Nor would they have the slightest confidence in her ability to fulfill the functions of that office. Every woman who fails in a public position confirms this, but every woman who succeeds creates confidence.Collection: Wise
Keep us at tasks too hard for us that we may be driven to Thee for strength.Collection: Tasks
We can no longer oversimplify. We can no longer build lazy and false stereotypes: Americans are like this, Russians are like that, a Jew behaves in such a way, a Negro thinks in a different way. The lazy generalities - 'You know how women are ... Isn't that just like a man?' The world cannot be understood from a single point of view.Collection: Men
Friendship with oneself is all important.Collection: Friendship
If it's a man's game so decidedly that a woman would be soiled by entering it, then there is something radically wrong with the American game of politics.Collection: Men
It is our freedom to progress that makes us all want to live and to go on.Collection: Progress
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.Collection: Long Ago
Mr. [Richard M.] Nixon never has anything but hindsight.Collection: Hindsight
a society in which there is widespread economic insecurity can turn freedom into a barren and vapid right for millions of people.Collection: People
If the use of leisure time is confined to looking at TV for a few extra hours every day, we will deteriorate as a people.Collection: Work