Quotes from Eleanor Roosevelt

I can not believe that war is the best solution. No one won the last war, and no one will win the next war.

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.

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.

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

A mature person is one who is 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 all things, and who walks humbly and deals charitably.

I had a rose named after me and I was very flattered. But I was not pleased to read the description in the catalog: - No good in a bed, but fine against a wall.

You gain strength, courage and confidence by every experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face.

You gain strength, experience and confidence by every experience where you really stop to look fear in the face. You must do the thing you cannot do.

Never allow a person to tell you NO who doesn't have the power to say YES.

Your ambition should be to get as much life out of living as you possibly can, as much enjoyment, as much interest, as much experience, as much understanding. Not simply be what is generally called a success.

When you have decided what you believe, what you feel must be done, have the courage to stand alone and be counted.

You wouldn't worry so much about what others think of you if you realized how seldom they do.

What could we accomplish if we knew we could not fail?

Great leaders inspire people to have confidence in themselves.

More people are ruined by victory I imagine than by defeat.

It takes courage to love, but pain through love is the purifying fire which those who love generously know.

I think the thing we must look for actually is a growth in our people and in whoever comes in a quality of courage to tell our people just what world conditions are.

The kind of man who thinks that helping with the dishes is beneath him will also think that helping with the baby is beneath him, and then he certainly is not going to be a very successful father

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

Friendship with oneself is all important because without it one cannot be friends with anybody else in the world

Many people will walk in and out of your life, but only true friends will leave footprints in your heart

The destiny of human rights is in the hands of all our citizens in all our communities.

All human beings are born free and equal in dignity and rights.

Education is the cornerstone of liberty.