Eleanor Roosevelt Quotes

I think that somehow, we learn who we really are and then live with that decision.
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.
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.
I'm so glad I never feel important, it does complicate life!
If life were predictable it would cease to be life, and be without flavor.
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.
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.
It is better to light a candle than curse the darkness.
It is not fair to ask of others what you are not willing to do yourself.
It is not more vacation we need - it is more vocation.
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.
It takes as much energy to wish as it does to plan.
Justice cannot be for one side alone, but must be for both.
Life must be lived and curiosity kept alive. One must never, for whatever reason, turn his back on life.
My experience has been that work is almost the best way to pull oneself out of the depths.
Never allow a person to tell you no who doesn't have the power to say yes.
No one can make you feel inferior without your consent.
Old age has deformities enough of its own. It should never add to them the deformity of vice.
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.
Only a man's character is the real criterion of worth.
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Eleanor Roosevelt
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First Lady
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11 October, 1884
DeathDate
07 November, 1962
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