Quotes from Eleanor Roosevelt
I'm intensely anxious to preserve the freedom that gives you the right to think and to act and to talk as you please. That I think is essential to happiness and the life of the people.
- Eleanor Roosevelt
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
We don't become heroes overnight." - One step at a time, eventually discovering we have the strength to stare it down.
- Eleanor Roosevelt
Enjoy every minute you have with those you love, my dear, for no one can take joy that is past away from you. It will be there in your heart to live on when the dark days come.
- Eleanor Roosevelt
You have to accept whatever comes and the only important thing is that you meet it with the best you have to give.
- Eleanor Roosevelt
No human being can ever 'own' another, whether in friendship, love, marriage, or parenthood.
- Eleanor Roosevelt
No one is all-knowing and therefore all of us need both love and charity.
- Eleanor Roosevelt
Remember always that you not only have the right to be an individual, you have an obligation to be one.
- Eleanor Roosevelt
In our country we must trust the people to hear and see both the good and the bad and to choose the good.
- Eleanor Roosevelt
Justice cannot be for one side alone, but must be for both.
- Eleanor Roosevelt
One of the blessings of age is to learn not to part on a note of sharpness, to treasure the moments spent with those we love, and to make them whenever possible good to remember, for time is short.
- Eleanor Roosevelt
The hard part of loving is that one has to learn so often to let go of those we love, so they can do things, so they can grow, so they can return to us with an even richer, deeper love.
- Eleanor Roosevelt