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“Every woman wants to be first to someone sometime in her life and that desire is the explanation for many strange things women do.”

Eleanor Roosevelt

“If man is to be liberated to enjoy more leisure, he must also be prepared to enjoy this leisure fully and creatively.”

Eleanor Roosevelt

My Day (1935–1962)
Source: This is My Story
Context: If man is to be liberated to enjoy more leisure, he must also be prepared to enjoy this leisure fully and creatively. For people to have more time to read, to take part in their civic obligations, to know more about how their government functions and who their officials are might mean in a democracy a great improvement in the democratic processes. Let's begin, then, to think how we can prepare old and young for these new opportunities. Let's not wait until they come upon us suddenly and we have a crisis that we will be ill prepared to meet. (5 November 1958)

“Understanding is a two-way street.”

Eleanor Roosevelt

As quoted in Modern Quotations for Ready Reference (1947) by Arthur Richmond, p. 455
Source: The Autobiography of Eleanor Roosevelt

“If anyone were to ask me what I want out of life I would say- the opportunity for doing something useful, for in no other way, I am convinced, can true happiness be attained.”

Eleanor Roosevelt

“There is nothing to fear except fear it's self.”

Eleanor Roosevelt

“It is a brave thing to have courage to be an individual; it is also, perhaps, a lonely thing. But it is better than not being an individual, which is to be nobody at all.”

Eleanor Roosevelt

Source: You Learn by Living: Eleven Keys for a More Fulfilling Life

“What you don't do can be a destructive force.”

Eleanor Roosevelt

“Anyone who thinks must think of the next war as they would of suicide.”

Eleanor Roosevelt

Source: Eleanor and Franklin

“I could never be content to take my place by the fireside and simply look on. 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

“He who learns but does not think is lost. He who thinks but does not learn is in great danger.”

Eleanor Roosevelt

Source: The Autobiography of Eleanor Roosevelt

“I am convinced that every effort must be made in childhood to teach the young to use their own minds. For one thing is sure: If they don't make up their minds, someone will do it for them.”

Eleanor Roosevelt

Source: You Learn by Living: Eleven Keys for a More Fulfilling Life

“Never be bored, and you will never be boring.”

Eleanor Roosevelt

Source: You Learn by Living: Eleven Keys for a More Fulfilling Life

“If you can develop this ability to see what you look at, to understand its meaning, to readjust your knowledge to this new information, you can continue to learn and to grow as long as you live and you’ll have a wonderful time doing it.”

Eleanor Roosevelt

Source: You Learn by Living: Eleven Keys for a More Fulfilling Life

“Be confident, not certain”

Eleanor Roosevelt

“I could not at any age be content to take my place in a corner by the fireside and simply look on.”

Eleanor Roosevelt

Variant: I could not, at any age, be content to take my place by the fireside and simply look on. Life was meant to be lived.

“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

“Will people ever be wise enough to refuse to follow bad leaders or to take away the freedom of other people?”

Eleanor Roosevelt My Day

16 October 1939
My Day (1935–1962)
Source: This is My Story