Eleanor Roosevelt: Trending quotes (page 4)

“You can never really live anyone else's life, not even your child's. The influence you exert is through your own life, and what you've become yourself.”

“We have to face the fact that either all of us are going to die together or we are going to learn to live together and if we are to live together we have to talk.”

“I have never felt that anything really mattered but the satisfaction of knowing that you stood for the things in which you believed and had done the very best you could.”

“As for accomplishments, I just did what I had to do as things came along.”

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

“You get more joy out of the giving to others, and should put a good deal of thought into the happiness you are able to give.”

“The giving of love is an education in itself.”

“Pit race against race, religion against religion, prejudice against prejudice. Divide and conquer! We must not let that happen here.”

“We do not have to become heroes overnight. Just a step at a time, meeting each thing that comes up, seeing it as not as dreadful as it appears, discovering that we have the strength to stare it down.”

“All of life is a constant education.”

“The only advantage of not being too good a housekeeper is that your guests are so pleased to feel how very much better they are.”

“Lest I keep my complacent way I must remember somewhere out there a person died for me today. As long as there must be war, I ask and I must answer was I worth dying for?”

“Courage is exhilarating.”

“The Marines I have seen around the world have the cleanest bodies, the filthiest minds, the highest morale, and the lowest morals of any group of animals I have ever seen. Thank God for the United States Marine Corps!”

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

“Freedom makes a huge requirement of every human being. With freedom comes responsibility. For the person who is unwilling to grow up, the person who does not want to carry his own weight, this is a frightening prospect.”

“Every time you meet a situation you think at the time it is an impossibility and you go through the tortures of the damned, once you have met it and lived through it, you find that forever after you are freer than you were before.”

“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.”

“A stumbling block to the pessimist is a stepping-stone to the optimist.”