Top 350 Eleanor Roosevelt Quotes (2025 Update)
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301. “As life developed, I faced each problem as it came along. As my activities and work broadened and reached out, I never tried to shirk. I tried never to evade an issue. When I found I had something to do – I just did it.”

— Eleanor Roosevelt

302. “All wars eventually act as boomerangs and the victor suffers as much as the vanquished.”

— Eleanor Roosevelt

303. “We must preserve our right to think and differ.”

— Eleanor Roosevelt

304. “The mobilization of world opinion and methods of negotiation should be developed and used by every nation in order to strengthen the United Nations.”

— Eleanor Roosevelt

305. “I think it is impossible for one human being really to know another without first knowing and being at peace with himself.”

— Eleanor Roosevelt

306. “It is a rather curious thing to have to divide one’s life into personal and official compartments and temporarily put the personal side into its hidden compartment to be taken out again when one’s official duties are at an end.”

— Eleanor Roosevelt

307. “Anyone who knows history, particularly the history of Europe, will, I think, recognize that the domination of education or of government by any one particular religious faith is never a happy arrangement for the people.”

— Eleanor Roosevelt

308. “There are three fundamentals for human happiness – love and faith, and work which will produce at least a minimum of material security. These things must be made possible for all human beings, men and women alike.”

— Eleanor Roosevelt

309. “At any age it does us no harm to look over our past shortcomings and plan to improve our characters and actions in the coming year.”

— Eleanor Roosevelt

310. “It is impossible to be a cynic if you live a good deal with young people. Fundamentally, every young person has a feeling that the future is going to hold something of value.”

— Eleanor Roosevelt

311. “Campaign behavior for wives: Always be on time. Do as little talking as humanly possible. Lean back in the parade car so everybody can see the president.”

— Eleanor Roosevelt

312. “To some of us, hunger was more academic than real, but we must try to develop the ability to feel the urgency of such a situation.”

— Eleanor Roosevelt

313. “Men have to be reminded that women exist.”

— Eleanor Roosevelt

314. “I consider those are rich who are doing something they feel worthwhile and which they enjoy doing.”

— Eleanor Roosevelt

315. “How can we be such fools as to go on senselessly taking human life in this way? Why the women in every nation do not rise up and refuse to bring children into a world of this kind is beyond my understanding.”

— Eleanor Roosevelt

316. “Of course, I do not believe in having everyone who is a liberal called a communist, or everyone who is conservative called a fascist.”

— Eleanor Roosevelt

317. “The labor movement has a great role to play in our country today.”

— Eleanor Roosevelt

318. “Friendship with oneself is all important.”

— Eleanor Roosevelt

319. “It seems to me that it is the basic right of any human being to work.”

— Eleanor Roosevelt

320. “To tell the people in the West not to use their cars means that these people may never see another soul for weeks and weeks nor have a way of getting a sick person to a doctor.”

— Eleanor Roosevelt

321. “Perhaps in His wisdom the Almighty is trying to show us that a leader may chart the way, may point out the road to lasting peace, but that many leaders and many peoples must do the building.”

— Eleanor Roosevelt

322. “There is not human being from whom we cannot learn something if we are interested enough to dig deep.”

— Eleanor Roosevelt

323. “We are given in our newspapers and on TV and radio exactly what we, the public, insist on having, and this very frequently is mediocre information and mediocre entertainment.”

— Eleanor Roosevelt

324. “I often wonder how we can make the more fortunate in this country fully aware of the fact that the problem of the unemployed is not a mechanical one. It is a problem alive and throbbing with human pain.”

— Eleanor Roosevelt

325. “So I took an interest in politics, but I don’t know whether I enjoyed it! It was a wife’s duty to be interested in whatever interested her husband, whether it was politics, books, or a particular dish for dinner.”

— Eleanor Roosevelt

326. “I wonder if one of the penalties of growing older is that you become more and more conscious that nothing is very permanent.”

— Eleanor Roosevelt

327. “Each time you learn something new you must readjust the whole framework of your knowledge.”

— Eleanor Roosevelt

328. “For instance, it is certain that women do not want a woman for President. Nor would they have the slightest confidence in her ability to fulfill the functions of that office.”

— Eleanor Roosevelt

329. “If you have any interests you can gain a wider audience for those interests while the goldfish bowl is yours!”

— Eleanor Roosevelt

330. “To leave the world richer – that is the ultimate success.”

— Eleanor Roosevelt

331. “I believe that it is a great mistake not to stand up for people, even when you differ with them, if you feel that they are trying to do things that will help our country.”

— Eleanor Roosevelt

332. “We need emotional outlets in this country, and the more artistic people we develop the better it will be for us as a nation.”

— Eleanor Roosevelt

333. “If it’s a man’s game so decidedly that a woman would be soiled by entering it, then there is something radically wrong with the American game of politics.”

— Eleanor Roosevelt

334. “Obedience may have its uses, but it is no substitute for willing, uncoerced co-operation.”

— Eleanor Roosevelt

335. “Our obligation to the world is, primarily, our obligation to our own future. Obviously, we cannot develop beyond a certain point unless other nations develop, too.”

— Eleanor Roosevelt

336. “It is our freedom to progress that makes us all want to live and to go on.”

— Eleanor Roosevelt

337. “A respect for the rights of other peoples to determine their forms of government and their economy will not weaken our democracy. It will inevitably strengthen it.”

— Eleanor Roosevelt

338. “What we apparently have failed to grasp is that, in this new world in which we live, the collective hunger of great masses of people, wherever they may be, will affect our long-range welfare, just as though they were our own people.”

— Eleanor Roosevelt

339. “This living in a democracy is a problem, isn’t it?”

— Eleanor Roosevelt

340. “The Bible illustrated by Dore occupied many of my hours – and I think probably gave me many nightmares.”

— Eleanor Roosevelt

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

— Eleanor Roosevelt

342. “All big things in human history have been arrived at slowly and through many compromises.”

— Eleanor Roosevelt

343. “I believe that it is essential to our leadership in the world and to the development of true democracy in our country to have no discrimination in our country whatsoever. This is most important in the schools of our country.”

— Eleanor Roosevelt

344. “Actors are one family over the entire world.”

— Eleanor Roosevelt

345. “I think we ought to impress on both our girls and boys that successful marriages require just as much work, just as much intelligence and just as much unselfish devotion, as they give to any position they undertake to fill on a paid basis.”

— Eleanor Roosevelt

346. “No human being can ever ‘own’ another, whether in friendship, love, marriage, or parenthood.”

— Eleanor Roosevelt

347. “We must want for others, not ourselves alone.”

— Eleanor Roosevelt

348. “You always admire what you really don’t understand. – Eleanor Roosevelt.”

— Eleanor Roosevelt

349. “When you build a memorial, you build it not because the person wanted it, but for the future – for generations who didn’t know the man and didn’t know the era in which he lived.”

— Eleanor Roosevelt

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

— Eleanor Roosevelt