Quotes - Eleanor Roosevelt 2

I believe that anyone can conquer fear by doing the things
he fears to do, provided he keeps doing them until he gets
a record of successful experience behind him.
- Eleanor Roosevelt

I can not believe that war is the best solution. No one
won the last war, and no one will win the next war.
- Eleanor Roosevelt

I have spent many years of my life in
opposition, and I rather like the role.
- Eleanor Roosevelt

I once had a rose named after me and I was
very flattered. But I was not pleased to
read the description in the catalogue: no
good in a bed, but fine up against a wall.
- Eleanor Roosevelt

I think that somehow, we learn who we really
are and then live with that decision.
- Eleanor Roosevelt

I think, at a child's birth, if a mother could ask a fairy godmother to endow it with the most useful gift, that gift should be curiosity.
- Eleanor Roosevelt

I used to tell my husband that, if he could make me 'understand' something, it would be clear to all the other people in the country.
- Eleanor Roosevelt

I'm so glad I never feel important, it does complicate life!
- Eleanor Roosevelt

If life were predictable it would cease to be life, and be without flavor.
- Eleanor Roosevelt

In all our contacts it is probably the sense of being really needed and wanted which gives us the greatest satisfaction and creates the most lasting bond.
- Eleanor Roosevelt

In the long run, we shape our lives, and we shape ourselves. The process never ends until we die. And the choices we make are ultimately our own responsibility.
- Eleanor Roosevelt

It is better to light a candle than curse the darkness.
- Eleanor Roosevelt

It is better to light one small candle than to curse the darkness.
- Eleanor Roosevelt

It is not fair to ask of others what you are not willing to do yourself.
- Eleanor Roosevelt

It is not fair to ask of others what you are unwilling to do yourself.
- Eleanor Roosevelt

It is not more vacation we need - it is more vocation.
- Eleanor Roosevelt

It isn't enough to talk about peace. One must believe in it. And it isn't enough to believe in it. One must work at it.
- Eleanor Roosevelt

It takes as much energy to wish as it does to plan.
- Eleanor Roosevelt

It's better to light a candle than to curse the darkness.
- Eleanor Roosevelt

Justice cannot be for one side alone, but must be for both.
- Eleanor Roosevelt

Life must be lived and curiosity kept alive. One must never, for whatever reason, turn his back on life.
- Eleanor Roosevelt

My experience has been that work is almost the best way to pull oneself out of the depths.
- Eleanor Roosevelt

Never allow a person to tell you no who doesn't have the power to say yes.
- Eleanor Roosevelt