Eleanor Roosevelt Quotes

“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

“If people only realized what a war goes on in a child’s mind and heart in a situation of this kind, I think they would try to explain more than they do, but nobody told me anything.”

― Eleanor Roosevelt, The Autobiography of Eleanor Roosevelt

topic:war

“Many of the boys I saw in hospitals are now leading happy and useful lives, but they carry with them, day after day, the results of the war. If we do not achieve the ends for which they sacrificed—a peaceful world in which there exists freedom...”

― Eleanor Roosevelt, The Autobiography of Eleanor Roosevelt

topic:war peace

“I had really only three assets: I was keenly interested, I accepted every challenge and every opportunity to learn more, and I had great energy and self-discipline.”

― Eleanor Roosevelt, The Autobiography of Eleanor Roosevelt

“I think I must have a good deal of my uncle Theodore Roosevelt in me because I enjoy a good fight and I could not, at any age, really be contented to take my place in a warm corner by the fireside and simply look on.”

― Eleanor Roosevelt, The Autobiography of Eleanor Roosevelt

topic:action comfort

“The more the world speeds up the more it seems necessary that we should learn to pick out of the past the things that we feel were important and beautiful then. One of these things was a quality of tranquillity in people, which you rarely meet today.”

― Eleanor Roosevelt, The Autobiography of Eleanor Roosevelt

topic:past

“One curious feature about political reform is that so many people feel it is disloyal to attempt to rectify the abuses in one’s own party. And yet it is obvious that political morality is dependent upon the awakened conscience and private...”

― Eleanor Roosevelt, The Autobiography of Eleanor Roosevelt

“I learned something which has stood me in good stead many times—the most important thing in any relationship is not what you get but what you give.”

― Eleanor Roosevelt, The Autobiography of Eleanor Roosevelt

topic:relationship importance

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