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Famous Eleanor Roosevelt Quotes
“Justice cannot be for one side alone, but must be for both.”
“A little simplification would be the first step toward rational living, I think.”
“If life were predictable it would cease to be life, and be without flavor.”
“I have spent many years of my life in opposition, and I rather like the role.”
“As for accomplishments, I just did what I had to do as things came along.”
“My experience has been that work is almost the best way to pull oneself out of the depths.”
“Hate and force cannot be in just a part of the world without having an effect on the rest of it.”
“I'm so glad I never feel important, it does complicate life!”
“Only a man's character is the real criterion of worth.”
“I think that somehow, we learn who we really are and then live with that decision.”
“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.”
“Ambition is pitiless. Any merit that it cannot use it finds despicable.”
“Old age has deformities enough of its own. It should never add to them the deformity of vice.”
“What one has to do usually can be done.”
“Anyone who thinks must think of the next war as they would of suicide.”
“Beautiful young people are accidents of nature, but beautiful old people are works of art.”
“I believe that anyone can conquer fear by doing the things he fears to do.”