Quotes from Eleanor Roosevelt

No one is all-knowing and therefore all of us need both love and charity.

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

In our country we must trust the people to hear and see both the good and the bad and to choose the good.

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

I think I lived those years very impersonally. It was almost as though I had erected someone outside myself who was the president's wife. I was lost somewhere deep down inside myself. That is the way I felt and worked until I left the White House.

I think if the people of this country can be reached with the truth, their judgment will be in favor of the many, as against the privileged few

It is often the people who refuse to assume any responsibility who are apt to be the sharpest critics of those who do.

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 love, and to make them whenever possible good to remember, for time is short.

The hard part of loving is that one has to learn so often to let go of those we love, so they can do things, so they can grow, so they can return to us with an even richer, deeper love.

You must do the things you think you cannot do.

what we need in the world is manners ... I think that if, instead of preaching brotherly love, we preached good manners, we might get a little further. It sounds less righteous and more practical.

The world conspires to help those who are in love with the beauty of their dreams.

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.'

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.

At all times, day by day, we have to continue fighting for freedom of religion, freedom of speech, and freedom from want... for these are things that must be gained in peace as well as in war.

Everybody wants something.

It is our freedom to progress that makes us all want to live and to go on.

I do not think I will ever become deadened, because I live in other people's lives, I must admit there are times when it weighs medown because I can't do some of the things I want.

Every time you meet a situation, though you think at the time it is an impossibility and you go through the torture of the damned, once you have met it and lived through it, you find that forever after you are freer than you were before.

Character building begins in our infancy, and continues until death.

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. Curiosity must be kept alive. One must never, for whatever reason, turn his back on life.

The only man who makes no mistakes is the man who never does anything.

Do not be afraid of mistakes, providing you do not make the same one twice.

What you don't do can be a destructive force.