Quotes from Eleanor Roosevelt
I do not think that I am a natural born mother... If I ever wanted to mother anyone, it was my father.
- Eleanor Roosevelt
There is a desire for progress in the hearts of all men, and it is the sense of frustration and inability to move forward that brings violent revolution.
- Eleanor Roosevelt
Whatever come we have to meet it.
- Eleanor Roosevelt
Furnish an example, stop preaching, stop shielding, don't prevent self-reliance and initiative, allow your children to develop along thier own lines.
- Eleanor Roosevelt
Tomorrow is a mystery. Today is a gift. That is why it is called the present.
- Eleanor Roosevelt
I have learned long ago to possess my soul in patience and accept the inevitable.
- Eleanor Roosevelt
The basis of world peace is the teaching which runs through almost all the great religions of the world. Love thy neighbor as thyself.
- Eleanor Roosevelt
If we want a free and peaceful world, if we want to make the deserts bloom and man grow to greater dignity as a human being - we can do it.
- Eleanor Roosevelt
If you have any interests you can gain a wider audience for those interests while the goldfish bowl is yours!
- Eleanor Roosevelt
...real prosperity can only come when everybody prospers.
- Eleanor Roosevelt
Nothing has ever been achieved by the person who says, 'It can't be done.'
- Eleanor Roosevelt
Franklin [D. Roosevelt] had a good way of simplifying things. He made people feel that he had a real understanding of things and they felt they had about the same understanding.
- Eleanor Roosevelt