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Eleanor Roosevelt Quotes

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In 1932, lame duck president Herbert Hoover was so desperate to remain in the White House that he dressed up as Eleanor Roosevelt. When FDR discovered the hoax in 1936, the two men decided to stay together for the sake of the children  (Eleanor Roosevelt Quotes) Happiness is not a goal, it is a by-product. For what keeps our interest in life and makes us look forward to tomorrow is giving pleasure to other people  (Eleanor Roosevelt Quotes) There is no more precious experience in life than friendship. And I am not forgetting love and marriage as I write this; the lovers, or the man and wife, who are not friends are but weakly joined together. One enlarges his circle of friends through contact with many people. One who limits those contacts narrows the circle and frequently his own point of view as well  (Eleanor Roosevelt Quotes) The campaign to put a woman on the $20 bill has narrowed the choices down to four finalists. The four finalists are Rosa Parks, Harriet Tubman, Eleanor Roosevelt, and Flo from the Progressive Insurance ads  (Eleanor Roosevelt Quotes) A number of people still think of the United States as being overwhelmingly English, Protestant, and white. This erroneous idea influences their whole outlook  (Eleanor Roosevelt Quotes) There are three fundamentals for human happiness - love and faith, and work which will produce at least a minimum of material security. These things must be made possible for all human beings, men and women alike  (Eleanor Roosevelt Quotes) First of my own personal requirements is inner calm. This, I think, is an essential. One of the secrets of using your time well is to gain a certain ability to maintain peace within yourself so that much can go on around you and you can stay calm inside  (Eleanor Roosevelt Quotes) The New York Times, whose editorial department sounds like Cotton Mather rewriting Eleanor Roosevelt  (Eleanor Roosevelt Quotes) And if something came along that didn’t sound so good, it perhaps didn’t always get out there as it should have. But given the fact that she [Eleanor Roosevelt] had the help, nonetheless she knew how to use it. And she used it very effectively  (Eleanor Roosevelt Quotes) Eleanor Roosevelt had both her admirers and her detractors. And they admired her and detracted from her for many of the same reasons. People who liked her social activism, who thought that she was calling attention to problems that needed solving, were all for her  (Eleanor Roosevelt Quotes) I think Eleanor Roosevelt’s so popular at Allenswood because it’s the first time she is, number one, free. But it’s the first time somebody really recognizes her own leadership abilities and her own scholarly abilities  (Eleanor Roosevelt Quotes) Politics is not an isolated, individualist adventure. Women really need to emerge as a power to be the countervailing power to the men. And Eleanor Roosevelt’s really the dynamo and the spearhead of that effort  (Eleanor Roosevelt Quotes) This is a time for action ÂÂ- not for war, but for mobilization of every bit of peace machinery.  (Eleanor Roosevelt Quotes) I believe in active citizenship, for men and women equally, as a simple matter of right and justice. I believe we will have better government in all of our countries when men and women discuss public issues together and make their decisions on the basis of their different areas of experience and their common concern for the welfare of their families and their world.  (Eleanor Roosevelt Quotes) You always admire what you really don’t understand. - Eleanor Roosevelt  (Eleanor Roosevelt Quotes) Government exists for one purpose: to make things better for all people  (Eleanor Roosevelt Quotes) The most important thing in any relationship is not what you get but what you give.... In any case, the giving of love is an education in itself.  (Eleanor Roosevelt Quotes) ...no matter how avid they themselves may be for praise and appreciation, people are often niggardly in giving it to others, however merited it is.  (Eleanor Roosevelt Quotes) Great minds discuss ideas; average minds discuss events; small minds discuss people  (Eleanor Roosevelt Quotes) Terrific minds focus on tips; average minds go over activities; little minds talk about people today.  (Eleanor Roosevelt Quotes) The world conspires to help those who are in love with the beauty of their dreams  (Eleanor Roosevelt Quotes) I do not think I will ever become deadened, because I live in other people’s lives, I must admit there are times when it weighs medown because I can’t do some of the things I want.  (Eleanor Roosevelt Quotes) Success in marriage depends on being able, when you get over being in love, to really love....You never know anyone until you marry them.  (Eleanor Roosevelt Quotes) Remember, no one can make you feel inferior without being related to you and repeatedly questioning why you’re in nonprofit.  (Eleanor Roosevelt Quotes) Never allow a person to tell you no who doesn’t have the power to say yes  (Eleanor Roosevelt Quotes) 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.  (Eleanor Roosevelt Quotes) Losing money is a big loss, losing friends is greater than the loss, also lost all faith is lost  (Eleanor Roosevelt Quotes) 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 would be curiosity.  (Eleanor Roosevelt Quotes) 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.  (Eleanor Roosevelt Quotes) A day out-of-doors, someone I loved to talk with, a good book and some simple food and music - that would be rest.  (Eleanor Roosevelt Quotes)
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