Quotes from Eleanor Roosevelt
The will of the people shall be the basis of the authority of government.
- Eleanor Roosevelt
Poor minds talk about people average minds talk about events great minds talk about ideas
- Eleanor Roosevelt
Because they have so little, children must rely on imagination rather than experience.
- Eleanor Roosevelt
When you cease to make a contribution, you begin to die.
- Eleanor Roosevelt
You can often change your circumstances by changing your attitude
- Eleanor Roosevelt
We must want for others, not ourselves alone.
- Eleanor Roosevelt
There are no have-to's, just choices
- Eleanor Roosevelt
If you must compromise, compromise up.
- Eleanor Roosevelt
More people are ruined by victory, I imagine, than be defeat.
- Eleanor Roosevelt
You not only have a right to be an individual. You have a responsibility.
- Eleanor Roosevelt
Life was meant to be lived, and curiosity must be kept alive. One must never, for whatever reason, turn his back on life.
- Eleanor Roosevelt
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