Eleanor Roosevelt Quotes

We are afraid to care too much, for fear that the other person does not care at all

Eleanor Roosevelt

Friendship with ones self is all important, because without it one cannot be friends with anyone else in the world

Eleanor Roosevelt

Understanding is a two-way street

Eleanor Roosevelt

I can not believe that war is the best solution. No one won the last war, and no one will win the next war

Eleanor Roosevelt

When you cease to make a contribution, you begin to die

Eleanor Roosevelt

One's philosophy is not best expressed in words; it is expressed in the choices one makes... and the choices we make are ultimately our responsibility

Eleanor Roosevelt

People grow through experience if they meet life honestly and courageously. This is how character is built

Eleanor Roosevelt

I once had a rose named after me and I was very flattered. But I was not pleased to read the description in the catalogue: no good in a bed, but fine up against a wall

Eleanor Roosevelt

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 everyone, rich or poor

Eleanor Roosevelt

You have to accept whatever comes and the only important thing is that you meet it with courage and with the best that you have to give

Eleanor Roosevelt

When will our consciences grow so tender that we will act to prevent human misery rather than avenge it?

Eleanor Roosevelt

I believe that anyone can conquer fear by doing the things he fears to do, provided he keeps doing them until he gets a record of successful experience behind him

Eleanor Roosevelt

Justice cannot be for one side alone, but must be for both

Eleanor Roosevelt

Life must be lived and curiosity kept alive. One must never, for whatever reason, turn his back on life

Eleanor Roosevelt

I think, at a child's birth, if a mother could ask a fairy godmother to endow it with the most useful gift, that gift should be curiosity

Eleanor Roosevelt

Since you get more joy out of giving joy to others, you should put a good deal of thought into the happiness that you are able to give

Eleanor Roosevelt