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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, letter to Franklin Delano Roosevelt, Oct. 17, 1940
We need not fear any isms if our democracy is achieving the ends for which it was established.
ELEANOR ROOSEVELT, My Day
What is going on in the Un-American Activities Committee worries me primarily because little people have become frightened and we find ourselves living in the atmosphere of a police state, where people close doors before they state what they think or look over their shoulders apprehensively before they express an opinion.
ELEANOR ROOSEVELT, My Day
He who learns but does not think is lost. He who thinks but does not learn is in great danger.
ELEANOR ROOSEVELT, The Autobiography of Eleanor Roosevelt
Autobiographies are ... only useful 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, This Is My Story
One thing life has taught me: if you are interested, you never have to look for new interests. They come to you.
ELEANOR ROOSEVELT, You Learn by Living
It's your life-but only if you make it so.
ELEANOR ROOSEVELT, You Learn by Living
No writing has any real value which is not the expression of genuine thought and feeling.
ELEANOR ROOSEVELT, My Day
It is not fair to ask of others what you are unwilling to do yourself.
ELEANOR ROOSEVELT, My Day
A society in which everyone works is not necessarily a free society and may indeed be a slave society; on the other hand, a society in which there is widespread economic insecurity can turn freedom into a barren and vapid right for the millions of people.
ELEANOR ROOSEVELT, attributed, Eleanor: The Years Alone
I have never believed that war settled anything satisfactorily, but I am not entirely sure that some times there are certain situations in the world such as we have in actuality when a country is worse off when it does not go to war for its principles than if it went to war.
ELEANOR ROOSEVELT, attributed, Eleanor and Franklin
There is no human being from whom we cannot learn something if we are interested enough to dig deep.
ELEANOR ROOSEVELT, You Learn by Living
What counts, in the long run, is not what you read; it is what you sift through your own mind; it is the ideas and impressions that are aroused in you by your reading.
ELEANOR ROOSEVELT, You Learn by Living
This freedom of which men speak, for which they fight, seems to some people a perilous thing. It has to be earned at a bitter cost and then — it has to be lived with. For freedom makes a huge requirement of every human being. With freedom comes responsibility.
ELEANOR ROOSEVELT, You Learn by Living
Will people ever be wise enough to refuse to follow bad leaders or to take away the freedom of other people?
ELEANOR ROOSEVELT, My Day
One should always sleep in all of one's guest beds, to make sure that they are comfortable.
ELEANOR ROOSEVELT, My Day
Light a candle instead of cursing the darkness.
ELEANOR ROOSEVELT, This Is My Story
This is a time for action — not for war, but for mobilization of every bit of peace machinery.
ELEANOR ROOSEVELT, My Day
I think I have a good deal of my Uncle Theodore in me, because I could not, at any age, be content to take my place by the fireside and simply look on.
ELEANOR ROOSEVELT, attributed, The Three Roosevelts: Patrician Leaders Who Transformed America
In our country we must trust the people to hear and see both the good and the bad and to choose the good.
ELEANOR ROOSEVELT, My Day
We must know what we think and speak out, even at the risk of unpopularity.
ELEANOR ROOSEVELT, Tomorrow Is Now
When you cease to make a contribution, you begin to die.
ELEANOR ROOSEVELT, attributed, Eleanor: The Years Alone
With the new day comes new strength and new thoughts.
ELEANOR ROOSEVELT, "My Day", January 8, 1936
As long as we are not actually destroyed, we can work to gain greater understanding of other peoples and to try to present to the peoples of the world the values of our own beliefs. We can do this by demonstrating our conviction that human life is worth preserving and that we are willing to help others to enjoy benefits of our civilization just as we have enjoyed it.
ELEANOR ROOSEVELT, My Day
At all times, day by day, we have to continue fighting for freedom of religion, freedom of speech, and freedom from want — for these are things that must be gained in peace as well as in war.
ELEANOR ROOSEVELT, My Day
What is the use of worrying about tomorrow let alone 4 years from now!
ELEANOR ROOSEVELT, "Empty Without You", November 8, 1940
You always admire what you really don't understand.
ELEANOR ROOSEVELT, Meet the Press, Sep. 16, 1956
If man is to be liberated to enjoy more leisure, he must also be prepared to enjoy this leisure fully and creatively.
ELEANOR ROOSEVELT, This Is My Story
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