Quotes from Eleanor Roosevelt

An economic policy which does not consider the well-being of all will not serve the purposes of peace and the growth of well-being among the people of all nations.

I think it is impossible for one human being really to know another without first knowing and being at peace with himself.

Philosophy is not best expressed in words; it is expressed in the choices one makes.

...without equality there can be no democracy.

If you have any interests you can gain a wider audience for those interests while the goldfish bowl is yours!

...real prosperity can only come when everybody prospers.

Nothing has ever been achieved by the person who says, 'It can't be done.'

Anger is one letter short of danger.

Think as little as possible about yourself and as much as possible about other people.

Change means the unknown.

This I know. This I believe with all my heart. 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!

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.

The war for freedom will never really be won because the price of freedom is constant vigilance over ourselves and over our Government.

The will of the people shall be the basis of the authority of government.

It has been a long fight to put the control of our economic system in the hands of the government.

Poor minds talk about people average minds talk about events great minds talk about ideas

Where, after all, do universal human rights begin? In small places, close to home.

The word liberal comes from the word free. We must cherish and honor the word free or it will cease to apply to us.

On the whole our armed services have been doing pretty well in the way of keeping us defended, but I hope our State Department will remember that it is really the department of achieving peace.

What we must learn to do is to create unbreakable bonds between the sciences and the humanities. We cannot procrastinate. The world of the future is in our making. Tomorrow is now.

Because they have so little, children must rely on imagination rather than experience.

When you cease to make a contribution, you begin to die.

You can often change your circumstances by changing your attitude

Today is the oldest you've ever been, and the youngest you'll ever be again.