Source: On My Own: The Years Since The White House
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Famous Eleanor Roosevelt Quotes
Source: My Day: The Best of Eleanor Roosevelt's Acclaimed Newspaper Columns, 1936-1962
“The mind must be trained, rather than the memory.”
Source: Tomorrow Is Now: It Is Today That We Must Create the World of the Future
“It is so much easier to be enthusiastic than to reason!”
Source: My Days
Source: My Days
Source: My Days
“True hospitality consists of giving the best of yourself to your guests.”
Source: Book of common sense etiquette
“it is always easier to do nothing than to try a new line of action.”
Source: My Days
Source: You learn by living
Source: My Days
Source: Eleanor Roosevelt's My Day: First lady of the world, her acclaimed columns, 1953-1962
“People who 'view with alarm' never build anything.”
Source: Tomorrow Is Now: It Is Today That We Must Create the World of the Future
“Each generation supposes that the world was simpler for the one before it.”
Source: You learn by living
“There is in every country an antipathy to the foreigner.”
Source: Book of common sense etiquette
Source: Eleanor Roosevelt's My Day: First lady of the world, her acclaimed columns, 1953-1962
Source: Book of common sense etiquette
“No human being can ever 'own' another, whether in friendship, love, marriage, or parenthood.”
Source: Book of common sense etiquette
Source: Courage in a Dangerous World: The Political Writings of Eleanor Roosevelt
Source: You learn by living
Source: My Days
“Strength that goes wrong is even more dangerous than weakness that goes wrong.”
Source: Eleanor Roosevelt's My Day: First lady of the world, her acclaimed columns, 1953-1962
Source: If You Ask Me
“I can't tell you how to succeed, but I can tell you how to fail: Try to please everybody.”
Source: My Days
“experience should teach us that it is always the unexpected that does occur.”
Source: My Days
Source: Book of common sense etiquette
“it is harder to be philosophical when you are young.”
Source: My Days
“One has to live in Washington to know what a city of rumors it is.”
Source: Eleanor Roosevelt's My Day: Her Acclaimed Columns, 1936-1945
“Do the things that interest you and do them with all your heart.”
Source: You learn by living
“Choose a challenge instead of competence”
Source: Courage in a Dangerous World: The Political Writings of Eleanor Roosevelt