"talking too much is a far greater social fault than talking too little."
Read quote
3 likes
Quote collection
Eleanor Roosevelt quotes (page 24 of 26)
519 quotes — follow a thought to its full quote page.
"There is in every country an antipathy to the foreigner."
Read quote
3 likes
"it is harder to be philosophical when you are young."
Read quote
3 likes
"One of the best ways of enslaving a people is to keep them from education."
Read quote
3 likes
"I wonder if Communists occupied in producing plays are not safer than Communists starving to death. I have always felt that whatever your beliefs might be, if you could earn enough to keep body and soul together and had to be pretty busy doing that, you would not be very apt to have time to plot the overthrow of any existing government."
Read quote
3 likes
"...real prosperity can only come when everybody prospers."
Read quote
3 likes
"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."
Read quote
3 likes
"We stand today at the threshold of a great event both in the life of the United Nations and in the life of mankind. This declaration may well become the international Magna Carta for all men everywhere. We hope its proclamation by the General Assembly will be an event comparable to the proclamation in 1789 [of the French Declaration of the Rights of Man], the adoption of the Bill of Rights by the people of the U.S., and the adoption of comparable declarations at different times in other countries."
Read quote
3 likes
"Smearing good people like Lauchlin Currie [former administrative assistant to President Roosevelt], Alger Hiss and others is, I think, unforgiveable... Anyone knowing Mr. Currie or Mr. Hiss, who are the two people whom I happen to know fairly well, would not need any denial on their part to know they are not Communists. Their records prove it."
Read quote
3 likes
"We do not move forward by curtailing people's liberty because we are afraid of what they may do or say."
Read quote
3 likes
"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."
Read quote
3 likes
"A democratic form of government, a democratic way of life, presupposes free public education over a long period; it presupposes also an education for personal responsibility that too often is neglected."
Read quote
3 likes
"Every woman wants to be first to someone sometime in her life and that desire is the explanation for many strange things women do."
Read quote
3 likes
"Be confident, not certain"
Read quote
3 likes
"I never thought of achievement. I just did what came along for me to do - the thing that gave me the most pleasure."
Read quote
3 likes
"A trait no other nation seems to possess in quite the same degree as we do namely, a feeling of almost childish injury and resentment unless the world as a whole recognizes how innocent we are of anything but the most generous and harmless intentions"
Read quote
3 likes
"It is our freedom to progress that makes us all want to live and to go on."
Read quote
3 likes
"Long ago, I made up my mind that, when things were said involving only me, I would pay no attention to them, except when valid criticism was carried by which I could profit."
Read quote
3 likes
"This living in a democracy is a problem, isn't it?"
Read quote
3 likes
"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."
Read quote
3 likes