A little simplification would be the first step toward rational living, I think.
- Eleanor Roosevelt Quote

Actors are one family over the entire world.
- Eleanor Roosevelt Quote

Ambition is pitiless. Any merit that it cannot use it finds despicable.
- Eleanor Roosevelt Quote

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 Quote

Anyone who thinks must think of the next war as they would of suicide.
- Eleanor Roosevelt Quote

Autobiographies are only useful as the lives you read about and analyze may suggest to you something that you may find useful in your own journey through life.
- Eleanor Roosevelt Quote

Campaign behavior for wives: Always be on time. Do as little talking as humanly possible. Lean back in the parade car so everybody can see the president.
- Eleanor Roosevelt Quote

Do what you feel in your heart to be right- for you'll be criticized anyway. You'll be damned if you do, and damned if you don't.
- Eleanor Roosevelt Quote

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

Friendship with oneself is all important because without it one cannot be friends with anybody else in the world.
- Eleanor Roosevelt Quote

Happiness is not a goal; it is a by-product.
- Eleanor Roosevelt Quote

Hate and force cannot be in just a part of the world without having an effect on the rest of it.
- Eleanor Roosevelt Quote

Have convictions. Be friendly. Stick to your beliefs as they stick to theirs. Work as hard as they do.
- Eleanor Roosevelt Quote

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 Quote

I have spent many years of my life in opposition, and I rather like the role.
- Eleanor Roosevelt Quote

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 Quote

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 Quote

I'm so glad I never feel important, it does complicate life!
- Eleanor Roosevelt Quote

If life were predictable it would cease to be life, and be without flavor.
- Eleanor Roosevelt Quote

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 Quote

It is better to light a candle than curse the darkness.
- Eleanor Roosevelt Quote

It is better to light one small candle than to curse the darkness.
- Eleanor Roosevelt Quote

It is not fair to ask of others what you are unwilling to do yourself.
- Eleanor Roosevelt Quote

It is not more vacation we need - it is more vocation.
- Eleanor Roosevelt Quote

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 Quote

It takes as much energy to wish as it does to plan.
- Eleanor Roosevelt Quote

It's better to light a candle than to curse the darkness.
- Eleanor Roosevelt Quote

Justice cannot be for one side alone, but must be for both.
- Eleanor Roosevelt Quote

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

Never allow a person to tell you no who doesn't have the power to say yes.
- Eleanor Roosevelt Quote

No one can make you feel inferior without your consent.
- Eleanor Roosevelt Quote

Old age has deformities enough of its own. It should never add to them the deformity of vice.
- Eleanor Roosevelt Quote

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 Quote

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

Perhaps nature is our best assurance of immortality.
- Eleanor Roosevelt Quote

Remember always that you not only have the right to be an individual, you have an obligation to be one.
- Eleanor Roosevelt Quote

Sometimes I wonder if we shall ever grow up in our politics and say definite things which mean something, or whether we shall always go on using generalities to which everyone can subscribe, and which mean very little.
- Eleanor Roosevelt Quote

The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams.
- Eleanor Roosevelt Quote

The giving of love is an education in itself.
- Eleanor Roosevelt Quote

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 Quote

The only things one can admire at length are those one admires without knowing why.
- Eleanor Roosevelt Quote

Too often the great decisions are originated and given form in bodies made up wholly of men, or so completely dominated by them that whatever of special value women have to offer is shunted aside without expression.
- Eleanor Roosevelt Quote

Understanding is a two-way street.
- Eleanor Roosevelt Quote

We gain strength, and courage, and confidence by each experience in which we really stop to look fear in the face... we must do that which we think we cannot.
- Eleanor Roosevelt Quote

What is to give light must endure the burning.
- Eleanor Roosevelt Quote

What you don't do can be a destructive force.
- Eleanor Roosevelt Quote

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

When you cease to make a contribution, you begin to die.
- Eleanor Roosevelt Quote

With the new day comes new strength and new thoughts.
- Eleanor Roosevelt Quote

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 Quote

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 Quote

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 Quote

You must do the things you think you cannot do.
- Eleanor Roosevelt Quote