Eleanor Roosevelt Quotes (116) Spiritual Sayings
About the Author: Anna Eleanor Roosevelt ( October 11, 1884 — November 7, 1962) was the
longest-serving First Lady of the United States, holding the post from 1933 to 1945 during her husband Franklin D. Roosevelt's four terms in office. President Harry S. Truman later nicknamed her the "First Lady of the World" in tribute to her human rights achievements. Roosevelt was a controversial First Lady for her outspokenness, particularly for her stands on racial issues. She was the first presidential spouse to hold press conferences, write a syndicated newspaper column, and speak at a national convention. She advocated for expanded roles for women in the workplace, the civil rights of African Americans and Asian Americans, and the rights of World War II refugees.
Following her husband's death, Eleanor remained active in politics for the rest of her life. She pressed the US to join and support the United Nations and became one of its first delegates. She served as the first chair of the UN Commission on Human Rights, and oversaw the drafting of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. Later she chaired the John F. Kennedy administration's Presidential Commission on the Status of Women. By her death, she was regarded as "one of the most esteemed women in the world" and "the object of almost universal respect". In 1999, she was ranked in the top ten of Gallup's List of Most Widely Admired People of the 20th Century. See website for more info - http://www.biography.com/people/eleanor-roosevelt-9463366
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“No one can make you feel inferior without your consent.”
― Eleanor Roosevelt, This is My Story
“A woman is like a tea bag; you never know how strong it is until it's in hot water.”
― Eleanor Roosevelt
“Do one thing every day that scares you.”
― Eleanor Roosevelt
“Do what you feel in your heart to be right – for you’ll be criticized anyway.”
― Eleanor Roosevelt
“You gain strength, courage and confidence by every experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face. You are able to say to yourself, 'I have lived through this horror. I can take the next thing that comes along.' You must do the thing you think you cannot do.”
― Eleanor Roosevelt, You Learn by Living: Eleven Keys for a More Fulfilling Life
“You wouldn't worry so much about what others think of you if you realized how seldom they do.”
― Eleanor Roosevelt
“The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams.”
― Eleanor Roosevelt
“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.”
― Eleanor Roosevelt
“Many people will walk in and out of your life, but only true friends will leave footprints in your heart”
― Eleanor Roosevelt
“We are afraid to care too much, for fear that the other person does not care at all.”
― Eleanor Roosevelt
“Learn from the mistakes of others. You can’t live long enough to make them all yourself. ”
― Eleanor Roosevelt
“The purpose of life is to live it, to taste experience to the utmost, to reach out eagerly and without fear for newer and richer experience.”
― Eleanor Roosevelt
“No matter how plain a woman may be, if truth and honesty are written across her face, she will be beautiful.”
― Eleanor Roosevelt
“You can often change your circumstances by changing your attitude”
― Eleanor Roosevelt
“If someone betrays you once, it’s their fault; if they betray you twice, it’s your fault.”
― Eleanor Roosevelt
“Beautiful young people are accidents of nature, but beautiful old people are works of art. ”
― Eleanor Roosevelt
“The reason that fiction is more interesting than any other form of literature, to those who really like to study people, is that in fiction the author can really tell the truth without humiliating himself.”
― Eleanor Roosevelt
“Life was meant to be lived, and curiosity must be kept alive. One must never, for whatever reason, turn his back on life.”
― Eleanor Roosevelt
“To handle yourself, use your head; to handle others, use your heart.”
― Eleanor Roosevelt
“It is not fair to ask of others what you are not willing to do yourself.”
― Eleanor Roosevelt
“Life is what you make it. Always has been, always will be.”
― Eleanor Roosevelt
“Great minds discuss ideas. Average minds discuss events. Small minds discuss people.”
― Eleanor Roosevelt
“With the new day comes new strength and new thoughts.”
― Eleanor Roosevelt
“Do not stop thinking of life as an adventure. You have no security unless you can live bravely, excitingly, imaginatively; unless you can choose a challenge instead of competence.”
― Eleanor Roosevelt, The Autobiography of Eleanor Roosevelt
“What could we accomplish if we knew we could not fail?”
― Eleanor Roosevelt
“Once I 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
“A mature person is one who does not think only in absolutes, who is able to be objective even when deeply stirred emotionally, who has learned that there is both good and bad in all people and in all things, and who walks humbly and deals charitably with the circumstances of life, knowing that in this world no one is all knowing and therefore all of us need both love and charity.”
― Eleanor Roosevelt, It Seems to Me: Selected Letters
“Never allow a person to tell you no who doesn't have the power to say
yes.”
― Eleanor Roosevelt
“You have to accept whatever comes, and the only important thing is that you meet it with the best you have to give.”
― Eleanor Roosevelt
“In the long run, we shape our lives, and we shape ourselves. The process never ends until we die. And the choices we make are ultimately our own responsibility.”
― Eleanor Roosevelt
“Happiness is not a goal...it's a by-product of a life well lived.”
― Eleanor Roosevelt
“Friendship with oneself is all important, because without it one cannot be friends with anyone else in the world.”
― Eleanor Roosevelt
“Never mistake knowledge for wisdom. One helps you make a living; the other helps you make a life. ”
― Eleanor Roosevelt
“No one won the last war, and no one will win the next war.”
― Eleanor Roosevelt, The Wisdom of Eleanor Roosevelt
“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.”
― Eleanor Roosevelt
“Work is always an antidote to depression.”
― 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 would be curiosity.”
― Eleanor Roosevelt
“Confidence comes not from always being right but from not fearing to be wrong.”
― Eleanor Roosevelt
“I think that somehow, we learn who we really are and then live with that decision.”
― Eleanor Roosevelt
“I believe that anyone can conquer fear by doing the things he fears to do ...”
― Eleanor Roosevelt
“When will our consciences grow so tender that we will act to prevent human misery rather than avenge it?”
― Eleanor Roosevelt
“Remember always that you have not only the right to be an individual; you have an obligation to be one. You cannot make any useful contribution in life unless you do this.”
― Eleanor Roosevelt
“People grow through experience if they meet life honestly and courageously. This is how character is built.”
― Eleanor Roosevelt
“It's your life-but only if you make it so.”
― Eleanor Roosevelt, You Learn by Living: Eleven Keys for a More Fulfilling Life
“It isn't enough to talk about peace. One must believe in it. And it isn't enough to believe in it. One must work at it.”
― Eleanor Roosevelt
“A stumbling block to the pessimist is a stepping-stone to the optimist.”
― Eleanor Roosevelt
“When you cease to make a contribution, you begin to die.”
― Eleanor Roosevelt
“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.”
― Eleanor Roosevelt
“One's philosophy is not best expressed in words; it is expressed in the choices one makes. In the long run, we shape our lives, and we shape ourselves. The process never ends until we die. And the choices we make are ultimately our own responsibility”
― Eleanor Roosevelt
“Courage is exhilarating.”
― Eleanor Roosevelt
“The only advantage of not being too good a housekeeper is that your guests are so pleased to feel how very much better they are. ”
― Eleanor Roosevelt
“Freedom makes a huge requirement of every human being. With freedom comes responsibility. For the person who is unwilling to grow up, the person who does not want to carry his own weight, this is a frightening prospect.”
― Eleanor Roosevelt, You Learn by Living: Eleven Keys for a More Fulfilling Life
“There is not human being from whom we cannot learn something if we are interested enough to dig deep.”
― Eleanor Roosevelt, You Learn by Living: Eleven Keys for a More Fulfilling Life
“As for accomplishments, I just did what I had to do as things came along.”
― Eleanor Roosevelt
“The Marines I have seen around the world have the cleanest bodies, the filthiest minds, the highest morale, and the lowest morals of any group of animals I have ever seen. Thank God for the United States Marine Corps!”
― Eleanor Roosevelt
“Lest I keep my complacent way I must remember somewhere out there a person died for me today. As long as there must be war, I ask and I must answer was I worth dying for?”
― Eleanor Roosevelt
“The giving of love is an education in itself.”
― 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
“We do not have to become heroes overnight. Just a step at a time, meeting each thing that comes up, seeing it as not as dreadful as it appears, discovering that we have the strength to stare it down.”
― Eleanor Roosevelt
“All of life is a constant education.”
― Eleanor Roosevelt, The Wisdom of Eleanor Roosevelt
“You can never really live anyone else's life, not even your child's. The influence you exert is through your own life, and what you've become yourself.”
― Eleanor Roosevelt
“I have never felt that anything really mattered but knowing that you stood for the things in which you believed and had done the very best you could.”
― Eleanor Roosevelt
“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 if we are to live together we have to talk.”
― Eleanor Roosevelt
“The only things one can admire at length are those one admires without knowing why.”
― Eleanor Roosevelt
“It takes as much energy to wish as it does to plan.”
― Eleanor Roosevelt
“It is better to light a single candle than to curse the darkness.”
― Eleanor Roosevelt
“You should always own a black dress because no one ever remembers a black dress.”
― Eleanor Roosevelt
“Where, after all, do universal human rights begin? In small places, close to home - so close and so small that they cannot be seen on any maps of the world. Yet they are the world of the individual person; the neighborhood he lives in; the school or college he attends; the factory, farm, or office where he works. Such are the places where every man, woman, and child seeks equal justice, equal opportunity, equal dignity without discrimination. Unless these rights have meaning there, they have little meaning anywhere. Without concerted citizen action to uphold them close to home, we shall look in vain for progress in the larger world.”
― Eleanor Roosevelt
“Character building begins in our infancy and continues until death.”
― Eleanor Roosevelt
“I could not at any age be content to take my place in a corner by the fireside and simply look on. ”
― Eleanor Roosevelt
“You gain strength, courage, and confidence by every experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face….You must do the thing you think you cannot do.”
― Eleanor Roosevelt
“In all our contacts it is probably the sense of being really needed and wanted which gives us the greatest satisfaction and creates the most lasting bond.”
― Eleanor Roosevelt
“There are no have-to's, just choices”
― Eleanor Roosevelt
“Do the things that interest you and do them with all your heart. Don't be concerned about whether people are watching you or criticizing you. The chances are that they aren't paying any attention to you. It's your attention to yourself that is so stultifying. But you have to disregard yourself as completely as possible. If you fail the first time then you'll just have to try harder the second time. After all, there's no real reason why you should fail. Just stop thinking about yourself.”
― Eleanor Roosevelt, You Learn by Living: Eleven Keys for a More Fulfilling Life
“Remember always that you not only have the right to be an individual you have an obligation to be one.”
― Eleanor Roosevelt
“Pit race against race, religion against religion, prejudice against prejudice. Divide and conquer! We must not let that happen here.”
― Eleanor Roosevelt
“Don't call a woman a bitch. Call her an ass-hole. It still gets your point across and it's not sexist.”
― Eleanor Roosevelt
“I am who I am today because of the choices I made yesterday.”
― Eleanor Roosevelt
“You must do the thing you think you cannot do.”
― Eleanor Roosevelt
“You always admire what you really don't understand.”
― Eleanor Roosevelt
“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.”
― Eleanor Roosevelt
“To handle yourself, use your head; to handle others, use your heart. Anger is only one letter short of danger. If someone betrays you once, it is his fault; if he betrays you twice, it is your fault. Great minds discuss ideas; average minds discuss events; small minds discuss people. He who loses money, loses much; he who loses a friend, loses much more; he who loses faith, loses all.”
― Eleanor Roosevelt
“Anyone who thinks must think of the next war as they would of suicide.”
― Eleanor Roosevelt, Eleanor & Franklin: The Story of Their Relationship Based on Eleanor Roosevelt's Private Papers
“What you don't do can be a destructive force.”
― Eleanor Roosevelt
“I could never be content to take my place by the fireside and simply look on. Life was meant to be lived, and curiosity must be kept alive. One must never, for whatever reason, turn his back on life.”
― Eleanor Roosevelt
“He who learns but does not think is lost. He who thinks but does not learn is in great danger.”
― Eleanor Roosevelt, The Autobiography of Eleanor Roosevelt
“Absence makes the heart grow fonder.”
― Eleanor Roosevelt
“It seems to me of great importance to teach children respect for life. Towards this end, experiments on living animals in classrooms should be stopped. To encourage cruelty in the name of science can only destroy the finer emotions of affection and sympathy, and breed an unfeeling callousness in the young towards suffering in all living creatures.”
― Eleanor Roosevelt
“To be a citizen in a democracy, a human being must be given a healthy start.”
― Eleanor Roosevelt
“We have reached a point today where labor-saving devices are good only when they do not throw the worker out of his job.”
― Eleanor Roosevelt
“Do whatever comes your way to do as well as you can. Think as little as possible about yourself. Think as much as possible about other people. Dwell on things that are interesting. 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
“Be confident, not certain”
― Eleanor Roosevelt
“There is nothing to fear except fear it's self.”
― Eleanor Roosevelt
“The greatest gift you can give a child is an imagination.”
― Eleanor Roosevelt
“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.”
― Eleanor Roosevelt
“What counts, in the long run, is not what you read; it is what you sift through your own mind; it is the ideas and impressions that are aroused in you by your reading. It is the ideas stirred in your own mind, the ideas which are a reflection of your own thinking, which make you an interesting person”
― Eleanor Roosevelt, You Learn by Living: Eleven Keys for a More Fulfilling Life
“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.”
― Eleanor Roosevelt
“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.”
― Eleanor Roosevelt, You Learn by Living: Eleven Keys for a More Fulfilling Life
“Anyone who knows history, particularly the history of Europe, will, I think, recognize that the domination of education or of government by any one particular religious faith is never a happy arrangement for the people.”
― Eleanor Roosevelt
“Today is the oldest you've ever been, and the youngest you'll ever be again.”
― Eleanor Roosevelt
“When you adopt the standards and the values of someone else … you surrender your own integrity. You become, to the extent of your surrender, less of a human being.”
― Eleanor Roosevelt
“Do one thing everyday that scares you.”
― Eleanor Roosevelt
“You can't move so fast that you try to change the mores faster than people can accept it. That doesn't mean you do nothing, but it means that you do the things that need to be done according to priority.”
― Eleanor Roosevelt
“Yesterday is history. Tomorrow is a mystery. Today is a gift. That’s why it is called the present.”
― Eleanor Roosevelt
“Mozart, who was buried in a pauper’s grave, was one of the greatest successes we know of, a man who in his early thirties had poured out his inexhaustible gift of music, leaving the world richer because he had passed that way. To leave the world richer—that is the ultimate success.”
― Eleanor Roosevelt, You Learn by Living: Eleven Keys for a More Fulfilling Life
“Each time you learn something new you must readjust the whole framework of your knowledge”
― Eleanor Roosevelt
“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.”
― Eleanor Roosevelt
“If life were predictable it would cease to be life,and be without flavor”
― Eleanor Roosevelt
“Every woman wants to be first to someone sometime in her life and that desire is the explanation for many strange things women do.”
― Eleanor Roosevelt
“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.”
― Eleanor Roosevelt
“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.”
― Eleanor Roosevelt
“Looking back I see that I was always afraid of something: of the dark, of displeasing people, of failure. Anything I accomplished had to be done across a barrier of fear. ”
― Eleanor Roosevelt
“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.”
― Eleanor Roosevelt
“The encouraging thing is that every time you meet a situation, though you may 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 ever were before. . . . You gain strength, courage, and confidence by every experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face. You are able to say to yourself, “I lived through this horror. I can take the next thing that comes along.”
― Eleanor Roosevelt
“Nothing has ever been achieved by the person who says, It can't be done.”
― Eleanor Roosevelt
“Only I can let you disrepect me!”
― Eleanor Roosevelt
“No one can make you feel inferior without your permission.”
― Eleanor Roosevelt
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