Eleanor Roosevelt Quotes

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

Character, Real, Worth

Perhaps nature is our best assurance of immortality.
Eleanor Roosevelt

Nature, Best, Perhaps

What you don't do can be a destructive force.
Eleanor Roosevelt

It is not more vacation we need - it is more vocation.
Eleanor Roosevelt

Vacation, Vocation

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

Ambition is pitiless. Any merit that it cannot use it finds despicable.
Eleanor Roosevelt

Cannot, Ambition, Merit

When you cease to make a contribution, you begin to die.
Eleanor Roosevelt

Die, Begin, Cease

The only things one can admire at length are those one admires without knowing why.
Eleanor Roosevelt

Why, Knowing, Admire

Old age has deformities enough of its own. It should never add to them the deformity of vice.
Eleanor Roosevelt

Age, Enough, Old

Actors are one family over the entire world.
Eleanor Roosevelt

What one has to do usually can be done.
Eleanor Roosevelt

Anyone who thinks must think of the next war as they would of suicide.
Eleanor Roosevelt

War, Anyone, Next

The Bible illustrated by Dore occupied many of my hours - and I think probably gave me many nightmares.
Eleanor Roosevelt

Bible, Gave, Hours

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

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

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

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

Autobiographies are only useful as the lives you read about and analyze may suggest to you something that you may find useful in your own journey through life.
Eleanor Roosevelt

Life, May, Through

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: First Lady

Born: October 11, 1884

Died: November 7, 1962

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