More from Eleanor Roosevelt

  1. Do what you feel in your heart to be right - for you'll be criticized anyway. You'll be 'damned if you do, and damned if you don't.'
  2. 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.
  3. 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 to…
  4. To me who dreamed so much as a child, who made a dreamworld in which I was the heroine of an unending story, the lives of people around me …
  5. Life was meant to be lived, and curiosity must be kept alive. One must never, for whatever reason, turn his back on life.
  6. I think, at a child's birth, if a mother could ask a fairy godmother to endow it with the most useful gift, that gift would be curiosity.
  7. When you cease to make a contribution, you begin to die.
  8. I think that somehow, we learn who we really are and then live with that decision.

All Eleanor Roosevelt quotes