Eleanor Roosevelt Quotes

Never allow a person to tell you no who doesn't have the power to say yes.
Eleanor Roosevelt

Power, Person, Tell

People grow through experience if they meet life honestly and courageously. This is how character is built.
Eleanor Roosevelt

Experience, Life, Character

It is better to light a candle than curse the darkness.
Eleanor Roosevelt

Light, Darkness, Candle

A little simplification would be the first step toward rational living, I think.
Eleanor Roosevelt

Living, Step, Toward

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.
Eleanor Roosevelt

Politics, Mean, Sometimes

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.
Eleanor Roosevelt

Greatest, Sense, Wanted

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

Remember, Individual, Obligation

It takes as much energy to wish as it does to plan.
Eleanor Roosevelt

Wish, Energy, Plan

The giving of love is an education in itself.
Eleanor Roosevelt

Love, Education, Giving

I have spent many years of my life in opposition, and I rather like the role.
Eleanor Roosevelt

Life, Rather, Role

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.
Eleanor Roosevelt

Happiness, Good, Giving

The battle for the individual rights of women is one of long standing and none of us should countenance anything which undermines it.
Eleanor Roosevelt

Women, Long, Battle

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.
Eleanor Roosevelt

Good, Advantage, Pleased

Have convictions. Be friendly. Stick to your beliefs as they stick to theirs. Work as hard as they do.
Eleanor Roosevelt

Work, Friendly, Hard

Understanding is a two-way street.
Eleanor Roosevelt

When will our consciences grow so tender that we will act to prevent human misery rather than avenge it?
Eleanor Roosevelt

Human, Rather, Act

If life were predictable it would cease to be life, and be without flavor.
Eleanor Roosevelt

Life, Cease, Flavor

As for accomplishments, I just did what I had to do as things came along.
Eleanor Roosevelt

Campaign behavior for wives: Always be on time. Do as little talking as humanly possible. Lean back in the parade car so everybody can see the president.
Eleanor Roosevelt

Time, Car, Possible

Hate and force cannot be in just a part of the world without having an effect on the rest of it.
Eleanor Roosevelt

Hate, Cannot, Rest

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.
Eleanor Roosevelt

Life, May, Rich

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.
Eleanor Roosevelt

Women, Great, Men

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.
Eleanor Roosevelt

Change, Nothing, Mean

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

Alone, Justice, Cannot

My experience has been that work is almost the best way to pull oneself out of the depths.
Eleanor Roosevelt

Work, Best, Experience

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: First Lady

Born: October 11, 1884

Died: November 7, 1962

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