Eleanor Roosevelt
It is a curious thing in human experience, but to live through a period of stress and sorrow with another person, creates a bond which nothing seems able to break.Collection: Friendship
What could we accomplish if we knew we could not fail?Collection: Inspirational
No human being can ever "own" another, whether in friendship, love, marriage or parenthood. Many human relationships have been ruined and happiness far too often changed to misery by a failure to understand this.Collection: Relationship
Nothing we learn in this world is ever wasted.Collection: Educational
Curiously enough, it is often the people who refuse to assume any responsibility who are apt to be the sharpest critics of those who do.Collection: Responsibility
The very next thing you need to be doing is the thing that terrifies you the most.Collection: Needs
The war for freedom will never really be won because the price of freedom is constant vigilance over ourselves and over our Government.Collection: Freedom
Each generation supposes that the world was simpler for the one before it.Collection: Past
America is all about speed. Hot, nasty, bad-ass speed.Collection: Bad Ass
One thing life has taught me: if you are interested, you never have to look for new interests. They come to you. When you are genuinely interested in one thing, it will always lead to something else.Collection: Inspirational
Your ambition should be to get as much life out of living as you possibly can, as much enjoyment, as much interest, as much experience, as much understanding. Not simply be what is generally called a 'success.'Collection: Ambition
The most unhappy people in the world are those who face the days without knowing what to do with their time. But if you have more projects than you have time for, you are not going to be an unhappy person. This is as much a question of having imagination and curiosity as it is of actually making plans.Collection: Unhappy Person
It takes courage to love, but pain through love is the purifying fire which those who love generously know. We all know people who are so much afraid of pain that they shut themselves up like clams in a shell and, giving out nothing, receive nothing and therefore shrink until life is a mere living death.Collection: Love
I think if the people of this country can be reached with the truth, their judgment will be in favor of the many, as against the privileged fewCollection: Country
The trouble is that not enough people have come together with the firm determination to live the things which they say they believe.Collection: Determination
Courage is exhilarating.Collection: Inspirational
If we want a free and peaceful world, if we want to make the deserts bloom and man grow to greater dignity as a human being - we can do it.Collection: Inspirational
To leave the world richer—that is the ultimate success.Collection: World
We don't become heroes overnight." - One step at a time, eventually discovering we have the strength to stare it down.Collection: Hero
It seems to me that it is the basic right of any human being to work.Collection: Wise
We need not fear any isms if our democracy is achieving the ends for which it was established.Collection: Fear
We must do that which we think we cannot.Collection: Strength
No one is all-knowing and therefore all of us need both love and charity.Collection: Life
A respect for the rights of other peoples to determine their forms of government and their economy will not weaken our democracy. It will inevitably strengthen it.Collection: Government
Remember, no one can make you feel inferior without being related to you and repeatedly questioning why you're in nonprofit.Collection: Questioning Why
I'm sure that all the drivers and motorcycle police had once been racing drivers and were eager to get back to that profession.Collection: Police
...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.Collection: Running
It is very difficult to have a free, fair and honest press anywhere in the world. In the first place, as a rule, papers are largely supported by advertising, and that immediately gives the advertisers a certain hold over the medium they use.Collection: Giving
I shall either find a way, or make one (attributed)Collection: Inspirational
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.Collection: Understanding
So I took an interest in politics, but I don't know whether I enjoyed it! It was a wife's duty to be interested in whatever interested her husband, whether it was politics, books, or a particular dish for dinner.Collection: Husband
...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.Collection: Appreciation
Franklin [D. Roosevelt] had a good way of simplifying things. He made people feel that he had a real understanding of things and they felt they had about the same understanding.Collection: Real
Anyone who has gone through great suffering is bound to have a greater sympathy and understanding of the problems of mankind.Collection: Helping Others
what we need in the world is manners ... I think that if, instead of preaching brotherly love, we preached good manners, we might get a little further. It sounds less righteous and more practical.Collection: Thinking
I wonder if Communists occupied in producing plays are not safer than Communists starving to death. I have always felt that whatever your beliefs might be, if you could earn enough to keep body and soul together and had to be pretty busy doing that, you would not be very apt to have time to plot the overthrow of any existing government.Collection: Government
practically nothing we do ever stands by itself. If it is good, it will serve some good purpose in the future. If it is evil, it may haunt us and handicap our efforts in unimagined ways.Collection: Evil
Poverty is an expensive luxury. We cannot afford it.Collection: Luxury
I have learned long ago to possess my soul in patience and accept the inevitable.Collection: Long Ago
I think that in great crises you need to have deep rooted convictions and I have a feeling from the kind of campaigns that I have watched Mr. Nixon in in the past that his convictions are not very strong.Collection: Strong
Choose a challenge instead of competenceCollection: Challenges
Do not be afraid of mistakes, provided you do not make the same one twice.Collection: Mistake
This is a strange, little, complacent country [Switzerland], in many ways a USA in miniature but of course nearer the center of disturbance!Collection: Country
A guest is really good or bad because of the host or hostess who makes being a guest an easy or a difficult task.Collection: Guests
Furnish an example, stop preaching, stop shielding, don't prevent self-reliance and initiative, allow your children to develop along thier own lines.Collection: Mom
talking too much is a far greater social fault than talking too little.Collection: Talking
We cannot exist as a little island of well-being in a world where two-thirds of the people go to bed hungry every night.Collection: Night
A democratic form of government, a democratic way of life, presupposes free public education over a long period; it presupposes also an education for personal responsibility that too often is neglected.Collection: Education
experience should teach us that it is always the unexpected that does occur.Collection: Doe