Eleanor Roosevelt Quote Page
Accomplishments
As for accomplishments, I just did what I had to do as
things came along. I got the most satisfaction from my
work in the UN. There I was part of the second great
experiment to bring countries together and to get them
to work for a peaceful atmosphere in the world, and
I still feel it important to strengthen this organization
in every way.
Eleanor Roosevelt
Source:Eleanor:The Years Alone, pp238
Consent
No one can make you feel inferior without your consent.
Eleanor Roosevelt
Choices
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
Contribution
"When you cease to make a contribution, you begin to die."
Eleanor Roosevelt
Source:http://www.success.com/article/profiles-in-greatness-eleanor-roosevelt
Control Of Schools
Those of us who believe in the right of any human
being to belong to whatever church he sees fit,
and to worship God in his own way, cannot be
accused of prejudice when we do not want to see
public education connected with religious control
of the schools, which are paid for by taxpayers'
money.
Eleanor Roosevelt
Courage
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
Dealing With Russians
Have convictions.
Be friendly.
Stick to your beliefs as they stick to theirs.
Work as hard as they do.
We shall have to work very hard to understand them,
because they start from a different background.
They have a great belief in their own reasoning
and if we don't have just as great convictions,
they won't understand.
Eleanor Roosevelt
Source:Eleanor:The Years Alone
Decision
"The things you refuse to meet today always come back at you later on,
usually under circumstances which make the decision twice as difficult
as it originally was."
Eleanor Roosevelt
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Democratic Party
I want unity but above everything else, I want a
party that will fight for the things we know to be
right at home and abroad.
Eleanor Roosevelt 1959
The meaning of democracy and we must think of that
very seriously. There are new problems. They must be
met in new ways....It is a foolish thing to say that
you pledge yourself to live up to the traditions of
the New Deal and the Fair Deal--of course, you are
proud of those traditions; of course you are proud
to have the advice of the elders in our party, but
our party is young and vigorous. Our party may be
the oldest democratic party, but our party must live
as a young party, and it must have young leadership.
It must have younge people, and they must be allowed
to lead. They must not lean on their tradition. They
must be proud of it. They must take into account the
advice of the elders, but they must have the courage
to look ahead, to face new problems with new solutions.
Eleanor Roosevelt
Source:Eleanor:The Years Alone, pp257
Depression
If I feel depressed, I go to work.
Eleanor Roosevelt
Do What's Right
"Do what you feel in your heart to be right—for you'll be criticized anyway."
Eleanor Roosevelt
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Enslaving
"One of the best ways of enslaving a people is to keep them from education."
Eleanor Roosevelt
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Fact
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
Fair
"It is not fair to ask of others what you are not willing to do yourself."
Eleanor Roosevelt
SOURCE:http://www.personal.psu.edu/users/m/e/mep171/random.htm
Fear
”Do one thing every day that scares you.
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
Source:http://tobefree.wordpress.com/2012/02/18/eleanor-roosevelt-do-things-
youre-afraid-to-do-conquering-fear-by-doing/
Franklin D. Roosevelt
We miss hearing his voice in our living room. You know I think he gave
people a sense of security. They felt he had a pretty complete
understanding of their own problems and the problems they must face in
the rest of the world. Hearing his voice, they were inclined to feel
they were part of what was going on.
Now, they feel left out.
Franklin 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.
Eleanor Roosevelt
Source:Interview, April 6, 1947
Future
The future belongs to those who believe in the
beauty of their dreams.
Eleanor Roosevelt
Happiness
Happiness is not a goal; it is a by-product.
Eleanor Roosevelt
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education-eleanor-roosevelt-quote-of-the-day/
Hate
Hate and force cannot be in just a part of the world without having
an effect on the rest of it.
Eleanor Roosevelt
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education-eleanor-roosevelt-quote-of-the-day/
Hiroshima
It is always hard to tell people that it is the causes
of the war which bring about such things as Hiroshima,
and that we must try to eliminate these causes because
if there is another Pearl Harbor, there will be
undoubtedly be another Hiroshima. Somehow I have tried
to get this point across.
Eleanor Roosevelt
Source:Eleanor:The Years Alone, pp225
Joy
"You get more joy out of the giving to others, and should put a good
deal of thought into the happiness you are able to give."
Eleanor Roosevelt
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Labels
Of course, I do not believe in having everyone who
is a liberal called a communist, or everyone who is
conservative called a fasciast, but I think it is
possible to determine whether one is one or the other
and it does not take too long to do so.
Eleanor Roosevelt
Source:Eleanor:The Years Alone
Legislators
I am interested in the way all legislators react. I think not having
strong convictions they doubt their ability to defend a position which
they may take, so they can not decide on any position and go on arguing
pros and cons endlessly.
Eleanor Roosevelt
Source:Eleanor:The Years Alone
Liberty
"We do not move forward by curtailing people's liberty
because we are afraid of what they may do or say."
Eleanor Roosevelt
[Anna Eleanor Roosevelt]
Source: The Nation, 1940
Love
"The giving of love is an education in itself."
Eleanor Roosevelt
Source:http://www.messiahsb.com/opinions/february-is-the-season-for-love-
1.2763315#.Tyx2F1lfS5M
McCarthyism
I want to be able to sit down with anyone who may have a
new idea and not be afraid of contamination by association.
In a democracy you must be able to meet with people and
augue your point of view--people whom you have not screened
beforehand. That must be part of the freedom of people in
the United States.
Eleanor Roosevelt
Source:Eleanor:The Years Alone, pp234
"Smearing good people like Lauchlin Currie [former administrative assistant to
President Roosevelt], Alger Hiss and others is, I think, unforgiveable... Anyone
knowing Mr. Currie or Mr. Hiss, who are the two people whom I happen to
know fairly well, would not need any denial on their part to know they are
not Communists. Their records prove it."
Eleanor Roosevelt
Source: "Washington Daily News", August 16th , 1948
http://quotes.liberty-tree.ca/quote_blog/Eleanor.Roosevelt.Quote.1C6B
Minds
"poor minds talk about other people, average minds talk about events,
and great minds talk about ideas."
Eleanor Roosevelt
Source:http://www.star-telegram.com/2012/02/03/3709231/gop-candidate
-ron-pauls-ideas.html
Name
To have a friend who knows you by name gives you a sence
that you are not alone in the world.
Eleanor Roosevelt
Source:Eleanor:The Years Alone, pp307
Nixon
I have no respect for the way in which he accused Helen
Gahagan Douglas of being a Communist because he knew that
was how he would be elected, and I have no respect for
the kind of charactor that takes advantage and does
something that they know is not true. He knew that she
might be a Liberal but he knew quite well, having known
her and worked with her, that she was not a Communist.
I have always felt that anyone who wanted an election so
much that they would use those means did not have the
charactor that I really admired in public life.
Eleanor Roosevelt
Source:Eleanor:The Years Alone, pp261
Philosophy
"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."
Eleanor Roosevelt
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Prepare for Opportunity
Perhaps the most important thing that has come out of my life is the
discovery that if you prepare yourself at every point as well as you can,
with whatever means you have, however meager they may seem, you will be
able to grasp opportunity for broader expedrience when it appears.
Without preparation you cannot do it.
Eleanor Roosevelt
Source:The Autobiography of Eleanor Roosevelt
Progressives
If we fail to meet our problems here, no one else in the world will do
so. If we fail, the heart goes out of progressives thoughout the world.
Eleanor Roosevelt
Source:Eleanor:The Years Alone
Religious Right
Spiritual leadership should remain spiritual
leadership and the temporal power should not
become too important in any church.
Eleanor Roosevelt
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
Self-control
I have a great objection to seeing anyone, particularly anyone I care about,
lose his self-control.
Eleanor Roosevelt
Source:My Day, Feb 3, 1958
Harry S. Truman
Is there anything we can do for you?
For you are the one in trouble now.
Eleanor Roosevelt's response to
Harry S. Truman upon his offer of assistance
following the death of FDR, 3-22-45
Uncle Theodore
"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 the fireside and simply look on."
Eleanor Roosevelt
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US Marines
"I have been to the front lines and seen the boys. 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
Without Voice
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
Source:Speech, UN, Dec 1952
Women
A woman is like a teabag, you never know how strong
she is until she's in hot water.
Eleanor Roosevelt
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