A biography for Eleanor Roosevelthasn’t been written yet.
“No one won the last war, and no one will win the next war.”
“You must do the things you think you cannot do.”
“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.”
“To handle yourself, use your head; to handle others, use your heart.”
“The battle for the individual rights of women is one of long standing and none of us should countenance anything which undermines it.”
“You have to accept whatever comes and the only important thing is that you meet it with courage and with the best that you have to give.”
“Great minds discuss ideas; average minds discuss events; small minds discuss people.”
“Do what you feel in your heart to be right – for you’ll be criticized anyway.”
“You can not live at all if you do not learn to adapt yourself to your life as it happens to be.”
“Light a candle instead of cursing the darkness.”
“I'm so glad I never feel important, it does complicate life!”
“The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams.”
“Never allow a person to tell you no who doesn't have the power to say yes.”
“America is not a pile of goods, more luxury, more comforts, a better telephone system, a greater number of cars. America is a dream of greater justice and opportunity for the average man and, if we can not obtain it, all our otherachievements amount to nothing.”
“It takes courage to love, but pain through love is the purifying fire which those who love generously know. We all know people who are so much afraid of pain that they shut themselves up like clams in a shell and, giving out nothing, receive nothing and therefore shrink until life is a mere living death.”
“You wouldn't worry so much about what others think of you if you realized how seldom they do.”
“It's your life-but only if you make it so.”
“Understanding is a two-way street.”
“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.”
“When you cease to make a contribution, you begin to die.”