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Eleanor Roosevelt Quotes Page 2Page: 1 2 Page two of this stock of Eleanor Roosevelt quotes continues to enlighten us on the thinking of a first lady who helped the country deal with the post-depression years. Mrs. Roosevelt worked hard to improve the lives of women even though she did not support the Equal Rights Amendment. She did not think the Equal Rights Amendment would be good for women. She was a politician, speaker, activist, and international traveler for her husband. Please pass these Eleanor Roosevelt quotes on to others. When you cease to make a contribution, you begin to die.
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.
When life is too easy for us, we must beware or we may not be ready to meet the blows which sooner or later come to everyone, rich or poor.
The Bible illustrated by Dore occupied many of my hours - and I think probably gave me many nightmares.
What one has to do usually can be done.
The battle for the individual rights of women is one of long-standing and none of us should countenance anything which undermines it.
We are afraid to care too much, for fear that the other person does not care at all.
Understanding is a two-way street.
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.
There are practical little things in housekeeping which no man really understands.
The only things one can admire at length are those one admires without knowing why.
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.
The giving of love is an education in itself.
What you don't do can be a destructive force.
Only a man's character is the real criterion of worth.
My experience has been that work is almost the best way to pull oneself out of the depths.
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.
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.'
You must do the things you think you cannot do.
No one can make you feel inferior without your consent.
You can never really live anyone else's life, not even your child's. The influence you exert is through your own life, and what you've become yourself.
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.
Life must be lived and curiosity kept alive. One must never, for whatever reason, turn his back on life.
People grow through experience if they meet life honestly and courageously. This is how character is built.
Perhaps nature is our best assurance of immortality.
Probably the happiest period in life most frequently is in middle age, when the eager passions of youth are cooled, and the infirmities of age not yet begun; as we see that the shadows, which are at morning and evening so large, almost entirely disappear at midday.
Remember always that you not only have the right to be an individual, you have an obligation to be one.
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.
Sometimes I wonder if we shall ever grow up in our politics and say definite things which mean something, or whether we shall always go on using generalities to which everyone can subscribe, and which mean very little.
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