Top 350 Eleanor Roosevelt Quotes (2023 Update)
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151. “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

152. “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

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

— Eleanor Roosevelt

154. “The word liberal comes from the word free. We must cherish and honor the word free or it will cease to apply to us.”

— Eleanor Roosevelt

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

— Eleanor Roosevelt

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

— Eleanor Roosevelt

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

— Eleanor Roosevelt

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

— Eleanor Roosevelt

159. “We face the future fortified with the lessons we have learned from the past. It is today that we must create the world of the future.”

— Eleanor Roosevelt

160. “Beautiful old people are works of art.”

— Eleanor Roosevelt

161. “We must be willing to learn the lesson that cooperation may imply compromise, but if it brings a world advance it is a gain for each individual nation.”

— Eleanor Roosevelt

162. “Anyone who has gone through great suffering is bound to have a greater sympathy and understanding of the problems of mankind.”

— Eleanor Roosevelt

163. “The constant pressure to bring about conformity is a dangerous thing.”

— Eleanor Roosevelt

164. “Work is always an antidote to depression.”

— Eleanor Roosevelt

165. “No, I have never wanted to be a man. I have often wanted to be more effective as a woman, but I have never felt that trousers would do the trick!”

— Eleanor Roosevelt

166. “Curiously enough, it is often the people who refuse to assume any responsibility who are apt to be the sharpest critics of those who do.”

— Eleanor Roosevelt

167. “A democratic form of government, a democratic way of life, presupposes free public education over a long period; it presupposes also an education for personal responsibility that too often is neglected.”

— Eleanor Roosevelt

168. “The very next thing you need to be doing is the thing that terrifies you the most.”

— Eleanor Roosevelt

169. “Everybody wants something.”

— Eleanor Roosevelt

170. “Unused ability, like unused muscles, will atrophy.”

— Eleanor Roosevelt

171. “You achieve strength, braveness and confidence by each experience in which you really halt to search dread during the deal with.”

— Eleanor Roosevelt

172. “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.”

— Eleanor Roosevelt

173. “A day out-of-doors, someone I loved to talk with, a good book and some simple food and music – that would be rest.”

— Eleanor Roosevelt

174. “Caring comes from being able to put yourself in the position of the other person.”

— Eleanor Roosevelt

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

— Eleanor Roosevelt

176. “Nothing alive can stand still, it goes forward or back. Life is interesting only as long as it is a process of growth; or, to put it another way, we can only grow as long as we are interested.”

— Eleanor Roosevelt

177. “Only a man’s character is the real criterion of worth.”

— Eleanor Roosevelt

178. “I have spent many years of my life in opposition, and I rather like the role.”

— Eleanor Roosevelt

179. “The people who came to New England, came for freedom of religion. The problem is, freedom of religion to them meant freedom for only their religion.”

— Eleanor Roosevelt

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

— Eleanor Roosevelt

181. “Hate and force cannot be in just a part of the world without having an effect on the rest of it.”

— Eleanor Roosevelt

182. “You do the things that need to be done according to priority.”

— Eleanor Roosevelt

183. “I learned then that practically no one in the world is entirely bad or entirely good, and that motives are often more important than actions.”

— Eleanor Roosevelt

184. “No man is defeated without until he has first been defeated within.”

— Eleanor Roosevelt

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

— Eleanor Roosevelt

186. “We stand today at the threshold of a great event both in the life of the United Nations and in the life of mankind, that is the approval by the General Assembly of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights.”

— Eleanor Roosevelt

187. “What I have learned from my own experience is that the most important ingredients in a child’s education are curiosity, interest, imagination, and a sense of the adventure of life.”

— Eleanor Roosevelt

188. “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

189. “There is nothing to regret – either for those who go or for those who are left behind.”

— Eleanor Roosevelt

190. “I have a great objection to seeing anyone, particularly anyone whom I care about, lose his self-control.”

— Eleanor Roosevelt

191. “It is a curious thing in human experience, but to live through a period of stress and sorrow with another person, creates a bond which nothing seems able to break.”

— Eleanor Roosevelt

192. “This is not a time when women should be patient. We are in a war and we need to fight it with all our ability and every weapon possible. Women pilots, in this particular case, are a weapon waiting to be used.”

— Eleanor Roosevelt

193. “The family is the natural and fundamental group unit of society and is entitled to protection by society and the State.”

— Eleanor Roosevelt

194. “If we want a free and peaceful world, if we want to make the deserts bloom and man grow to greater dignity as a human being – we can do it.”

— Eleanor Roosevelt

195. “I have learned long ago to possess my soul in patience and accept the inevitable.”

— Eleanor Roosevelt

196. “Change means the unknown.”

— Eleanor Roosevelt

197. “The war for freedom will never really be won because the price of freedom is constant vigilance over ourselves and over our Government.”

— Eleanor Roosevelt

198. “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

199. “The purpose of life afterall is to live it.”

— Eleanor Roosevelt

200. “A little simplification would be the first step toward rational living, I think.”

— Eleanor Roosevelt