Top 350 Eleanor Roosevelt Quotes (2024 Update)
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151. “It is curious how much more interest can be evoked by a mixture of gossip, romance and mystery than by facts.”

— Eleanor Roosevelt

152. “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

153. “Everybody wants something.”

— Eleanor Roosevelt

154. “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

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

— Eleanor Roosevelt

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

— Eleanor Roosevelt

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

— Eleanor Roosevelt

158. “Terrific minds focus on tips; average minds go over activities; little minds talk about people today.”

— Eleanor Roosevelt

159. “The leisure class is one in which individuals have sufficient economic security and sufficient leisure to find opportunity for a variety of satisfactions in life.”

— Eleanor Roosevelt

160. “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

161. “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

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

— Eleanor Roosevelt

163. “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

164. “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

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

— Eleanor Roosevelt

166. “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

167. “Change means the unknown.”

— Eleanor Roosevelt

168. “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

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

— Eleanor Roosevelt

170. “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

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

— Eleanor Roosevelt

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

— Eleanor Roosevelt

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

— Eleanor Roosevelt

174. “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

175. “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

176. “Nearly all great civilizations that perished did so because they had crystallized, because they were incapable of adapting themselves to new conditions, new methods, new points of view. It is as though people would rather die than change.”

— Eleanor Roosevelt

177. “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

178. “In the long run there is no more liberating, no more exhilarating experience than to determine one’s position, state it bravely, and then act boldly.”

— Eleanor Roosevelt

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

— Eleanor Roosevelt

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

— Eleanor Roosevelt

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

— Eleanor Roosevelt

182. “Most women, I think, though they may complain a little about this, would agree that meeting the needs of others is not a real burden; it is what makes life worth living. It is probably the deepest satisfaction a woman has.”

— Eleanor Roosevelt

183. “No one is all-knowing and therefore all of us need both love and charity.”

— Eleanor Roosevelt

184. “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

185. “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

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

— Eleanor Roosevelt

187. “The things you refuse to meet today always come back at you later on, usually under circumstances which make the decision twice as difficult as it originally was.”

— Eleanor Roosevelt

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

— Eleanor Roosevelt

189. “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

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

— Eleanor Roosevelt

191. “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

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

— Eleanor Roosevelt

193. “Curiosity must be kept alive.”

— Eleanor Roosevelt

194. “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

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

— Eleanor Roosevelt

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

— Eleanor Roosevelt

197. “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

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

— Eleanor Roosevelt

199. “If you approach each new person you meet in a spirit of adventure, you will find yourself endlessly fascinated by the new channels of thought and experience and personality that you encounter.”

— Eleanor Roosevelt

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

— Eleanor Roosevelt