Top 350 Eleanor Roosevelt Quotes (2025 Update)
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101. “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 is own weight, this is a frightening prospect.”

— Eleanor Roosevelt

102. “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.”

— Eleanor Roosevelt

103. “Somehow we must be able to show people that democracy is not about words, but action.”

— Eleanor Roosevelt

104. “Staying aloof is not a solution, it is a cowardly evasion.”

— Eleanor Roosevelt

105. “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

106. “I think that somehow, we learn who we really are and then live with that decision.”

— Eleanor Roosevelt

107. “Women are like tea bags: put them in hot water and they get stronger.”

— Eleanor Roosevelt

108. “Never mistake knowledge for wisdom. One helps you make a living; the other helps you make a life.”

— Eleanor Roosevelt

109. “Be confident, not certain.”

— Eleanor Roosevelt

110. “Everyone has the right to work, to free choice, to employment, to just and favorable conditions of work and to protectior against unemployment.”

— Eleanor Roosevelt

111. “Nothing has ever been achieved by the person who says, ‘It can’t be done.’”

— Eleanor Roosevelt

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

— Eleanor Roosevelt

113. “Do the things that interest you and do them with all your heart.”

— Eleanor Roosevelt

114. “It is not more vacation we need – it is more vocation.”

— Eleanor Roosevelt

115. “One thing life has taught me: if you are interested, you never have to look for new interests. They come to you. When you are genuinely interested in one thing, it will always lead to something else.”

— Eleanor Roosevelt

116. “Remember always that you not only have the right to be an individual, you have an obligation to be one.”

— Eleanor Roosevelt

117. “I never waste time looking back.”

— Eleanor Roosevelt

118. “What one has to do usually can be done.”

— Eleanor Roosevelt

119. “Some friends leave footprints in your heart.”

— Eleanor Roosevelt

120. “Life has got to be lived – that’s all there is to it.”

— Eleanor Roosevelt

121. “Enjoy every minute you have with those you love, my dear, for no one can take joy that is past away from you. It will be there in your heart to live on when the dark days come.”

— Eleanor Roosevelt

122. “The basis of all good human behavior is kindness.”

— Eleanor Roosevelt

123. “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?”

— Eleanor Roosevelt

124. “The battle for the individual rights of women is one of long standing and none of us should countenance anything which undermines it.”

— Eleanor Roosevelt

125. “Losing money is a big loss, losing friends is greater than the loss, also lost all faith is lost.”

— Eleanor Roosevelt

126. “Life has got to be lived – that’s all there is to it. At seventy, I would say the advantage is that you take life more calmly. You know that ‘this, too, shall pass!’”

— Eleanor Roosevelt

127. “Nothing we learn in this world is ever wasted.”

— Eleanor Roosevelt

128. “A guest is really good or bad because of the host or hostess who makes being a guest an easy or a difficult task.”

— Eleanor Roosevelt

129. “Government exists for one purpose: to make things better for all people.”

— Eleanor Roosevelt

130. “Before we can make friends with anyone else, we must first make friends with ourselves.”

— Eleanor Roosevelt

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

— Eleanor Roosevelt

132. “If quitting smoking seems hard right now, it is exactly what you should start doing.”

— Eleanor Roosevelt

133. “It takes courage to love, but pain through love is the purifying fire which those who love generously know.”

— Eleanor Roosevelt

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

— Eleanor Roosevelt

135. “The basis of world peace is the teaching which runs through almost all the great religions of the world. Love thy neighbor as thyself.”

— Eleanor Roosevelt

136. “Most of the work that’s done in the world gets done by people who weren’t feeling all that well at the time that they did it.”

— Eleanor Roosevelt

137. “More people are ruined by victory, I imagine, than be defeat.”

— Eleanor Roosevelt

138. “To undo mistakes is always harder than not to create them originally, but we seldom have foresight. Therefore, we have no choice but to try to correct our past mistakes.”

— Eleanor Roosevelt

139. “Manipulate the situation to create the reality of your desire.”

— Eleanor Roosevelt

140. “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.”

— Eleanor Roosevelt

141. “You get strength and courage, when you stop to look fear in the face.”

— Eleanor Roosevelt

142. “If you prepare yourself at every point as well as you can, with whatever means you may have, however meager they may seem, you will be able to grasp opportunity for broader experience when it appears. Without preparation you cannot do it.”

— Eleanor Roosevelt

143. “When it’s better for everyone, it’s better for everyone.”

— Eleanor Roosevelt

144. “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

145. “Sailors have the cleanest bodies and the filthiest minds.”

— Eleanor Roosevelt

146. “The hard part of loving is that one has to learn so often to let go of those we love, so they can do things, so they can grow, so they can return to us with an even richer, deeper love.”

— Eleanor Roosevelt

147. “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

148. “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.”

— Eleanor Roosevelt

149. “Have convictions. Be friendly. Stick to your beliefs as they stick to theirs. Work as hard as they do.”

— Eleanor Roosevelt

150. “Friendship with ones self is all important, because without it one cannot be friends with anyone else in the world.”

— Eleanor Roosevelt