Eleanor Roosevelt Quotes

“Up to a certain point it is good for us to know that there are people in the world who will give us love and unquestioned loyalty to the limit of their ability. I doubt, however, if it is good for us to feel assured of this without the...”

― Eleanor Roosevelt, The Autobiography of Eleanor Roosevelt

topic:love

“Do not stop thinking of life as an adventure. You have no security unless you can live bravely, excitingly, imaginatively; unless you can choose a challenge instead of a competence.”

― Eleanor Roosevelt, The Autobiography of Eleanor Roosevelt

topic:life bravery adventure

“Life was meant to be lived, and curiosity must be kept alive. One must never, for whatever reason, turn his back on life.”

― Eleanor Roosevelt, The Autobiography of Eleanor Roosevelt

topic:life

“Autobiographies are, after all, useful only as the lives you read about and analyze may suggest to you something that you may find useful in your own journey through life.”

― Eleanor Roosevelt, The Autobiography of Eleanor Roosevelt

topic:life

“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 the people around me have continued to have a certain storybook quality.”

― Eleanor Roosevelt, The Autobiography of Eleanor Roosevelt

topic:life dream

“The reason that fiction is more interesting than any other form of literature to those of us who like to study people is that in fiction the author can really tell the truth without hurting anyone and without humiliating himself too much.”

― Eleanor Roosevelt, The Autobiography of Eleanor Roosevelt

topic:truth writing hurting

“It was almost as though I had erected someone outside myself who was the President’s wife. I was lost somewhere deep down inside myself. That is the way I felt and worked until I left the White House.”

― Eleanor Roosevelt, The Autobiography of Eleanor Roosevelt

topic:self

“Looking back I see that I was always afraid of something: of the dark, of displeasing people, of failure. Anything I accomplished had to be done across a barrier of fear.”

― Eleanor Roosevelt, The Autobiography of Eleanor Roosevelt

topic:fear darkness failure

“It is, I am afraid, true that frequently various religious groups endeavor to exert pressures and control over different legislative and educational fields. It is the job of all of us to be alert for such infringement of our prerogatives and...”

― Eleanor Roosevelt, The Autobiography of Eleanor Roosevelt

topic:religion education

“The chief one was to remember that camping was a good way to find out people’s characters. Those who were selfish showed it very soon, in that they wanted the best bed or the best food and did not want to do their share of the work.”

― Eleanor Roosevelt, The Autobiography of Eleanor Roosevelt

topic:work character

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