Eleanor Roosevelt

Quotes

• “The mobilization of world opinion and methods of negotiation should be developed and used by every nation in order to st...”
• “There are many published incidents of this as an anonymous proverb since at least 1948, and as a statement of Eleanor Ro...”
• “Eleanor Roosevelt, fine, precise, hand-worked like ivory. Her voice was almost attractive ... One had the impression of ...”
• “Little by little it dawned upon me that this law was not making people drink any less, but it was making hypocrites and ...”
• “I buy 100 copies at a time of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. It was Eleanor Roosevelt's great work...I somet...”
• “...Mrs. Conklin points out certain bad conversational habits and suggests good ones, quoting Buckle's classic classifica...”
• “As long as we are not actually destroyed, we can work to gain greater understanding of other peoples and to try to prese...”
• “...It has been said long ago that there were three classes of people in the world, and while they are subject to variati...”
• “A mature person is one who does not think only in absolutes, who is able to be objective even when deeply stirred emotio...”
• “One's philosophy is not best expressed in words; it is expressed in the choices one makes. In stopping to think through ...”
• “This is a time for action - not for war, but for mobilization of every bit of peace machinery. It is also a time for fac...”
• “Often attributed to Eleanor Roosevelt without an original source in her writings, for example in the introduction to It ...”
• “As quoted in How to Stop Worrying and Start Living (1944; 1948) by Dale Carnegie; though Roosevelt has sometimes been cr...”
• “We must know what we think and speak out, even at the risk of unpopularity. In the final analysis, a democratic governme...”
• “Eleanor Roosevelt came to New York City and I was in a, a contest, a debating contest, and I won the debate in the whole...”
• “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 o...”
• “It takes courage to love, but pain through love is the purifying fire which those who love generously know. We all know ...”
• “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 unquestione...”
• “On April 12, 1945, Harry S. Truman received an urgent summons from the White House. When he arrived, Eleanor Roosevelt t...”
• “One thing life has taught me: if you are interested, you never have to look for new interests. They come to you. … All y...”
• “Another quote often attributed to her without an original source in her writings, as in The Wit and Wisdom of Eleanor Ro...”
• “You gain strength, courage, and confidence by every experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face. You ar...”
• “We face the future fortified with the lessons we have learned from the past. It is today that we must create the world o...”
• “...Some professor of psychology who has been eavesdropping for years makes the statement that "The best minds discuss id...”
• “One of the best ways of enslaving a people is to keep them from education... The second way of enslaving a people is to ...”
• “She thought of herself as an ugly duckling, but she walked in beauty in the ghettos of the world, bringing with her the ...”
• “I have a great belief in spiritual force, but I think we have to realize that spiritual force alone has to have material...”
• “Sometimes I wonder if we shall ever grow up in our politics and say definite things which mean something, or whether we ...”
• “My husband plunged into work on a speech and I went off to work on an article. Midnight came and bed for all, and all th...”
• “Adlai Stevenson, in a eulogy in the United Nations General Assembly (7 November 1962) adapting a statement that is the m...”
• “One of the blessings of age is to learn not to part on a note of sharpness, to treasure the moments spent with those we ...”
• “...He now reports that, "the best minds discuss ideas; the second ranking talks about things; while the third and lowest...”
• “At all times, day by day, we have to continue fighting for freedom of religion, freedom of speech, and freedom from want...”
• “New York times Saturday review of books and art, 1931: ...Wanted, the correct quotation and origin of this expression: G...”
• “The arts in every field - music, drama, sculpture, painting - we can learn to appreciate and enjoy. We need not be artis...”
• “Happiness is not a goal, it is a by-product. Paradoxically, the one sure way not to be happy is deliberately to map out ...”
• “Long ago, I made up my mind that when things were said involving only me, I would pay no attention to them, except when ...”
• “I have never felt that anything really mattered but the satisfaction of knowing that you stood for the things in which y...”
• “Preface (December 1960) to The Autobiography of Eleanor Roosevelt (1961), p. xvi; the last line was originally used in t...”
• “What we must learn to do is to create unbreakable bonds between the sciences and the humanities. We cannot procrastinate...”
• “...Be less curious about people and more curious about ideas. (Marie Curie, undated (died 1934), as quoted in Living Adv...”
• “There never has been security. No man has ever known what he would meet around the next corner; if life were predictable...”
• “Oh! I want to put my arms around you, I ache to hold you close. Your ring is a great comfort. I look at it and think she...”
• “We have to face the fact that either all of us are going to die together or we are going to learn to live together and i...”
• “I had a rose named after me and I was very flattered. But I was not pleased to read the description in the catalogue: "N...”
• “When life is too easy for us, we must beware or we may not be ready to meet the blows which sooner or later come to ever...”
• “I have lost more than a beloved friend. I have lost an inspiration. She would rather light candles than curse the darkne...”
• “I think of Eleanor Roosevelt as a woman of such human and uncompromising qualities that they make her not just in name b...”
• “I think I have a good deal of my Uncle Theodore in me, because I could not, at any age, be content to take my place by t...”
• “As quoted in "On The Universal Declaration of Human Rights" by Hillary Rodham Clinton in Issues of Democracy Vol. 3, No....”