Quotes from Eleanor Roosevelt

For 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.

Life has got to be lived-that's all that there is to it.

Someone once asked me what I regarded as the three most important requirements for happiness. My answer was: "A feeling that you have been honest with yourself and those around you; a feeling that you have done the best you could both in your personal life and in your work; and the ability to love others."

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.

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?

This is a time for action — not for war, but for mobilization of every bit of peace machinery.

All wars eventually act as boomerangs and the victor suffers as much as the vanquished.

No leader can be too far ahead of his followers.

You can't move so fast that you try to change [a situation] 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.

No one from the beginning of time has had security.

Criticism ... makes very little dent upon me, unless I think there is some real justification and something should be done.

I think somehow we learn who we really are and then live with that decision.

No man is defeated without until he has first been defeated within.

Friendship with oneself is all-important, because without it one cannot be friends with anyone else.

Somehow we learn who we really are and then live with that decision.

It is not fair to ask of others what you are not willing to do yourself.

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.

I used to tell my husband that, if he could make me 'understand' something, it would be clear to all the other people in the country.

Success in marriage depends on being able, when you get over being in love, to really love....You never know anyone until you marry them.

Only a man's character is the real criterion of worth.

When you 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.'

Women are like tea bags.They do not know how strong they are until they get into hot water.

There are practical little things in housekeeping which no man really understands.

When you build a memorial, you build it not because the person wanted it, but for the future -- for generations who didn't know the man and didn't know the era in which he lived.