“There never has been security. No man has ever known what he would meet around the next corner; if life were predictable it would cease to be life, and be without flavor.”
— Eleanor Roosevelt Primary source“Example is the best lesson there is.”
— Eleanor Roosevelt Primary source“The most important thing in any relationship is not what you get but what you give.”
— Eleanor Roosevelt Primary source“This is a time for action—not for war, but for mobilization of every bit of peace machinery.”
— Eleanor Roosevelt Primary source“One of the best ways of enslaving a people is to keep them from education… The second way of enslaving a people is to suppress the sources of information, not only by burning books, but by controlling all the other ways in which ideas are transmitted.”
— Eleanor Roosevelt Primary source“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 Primary source“Human resources are the most valuable assets the world has. They are all needed desperately.”
— Eleanor Roosevelt Primary source“I have never felt that anything really mattered but the satisfaction of knowing that you stood for the things in which you believed, and had done the very best you could.”
— Eleanor Roosevelt Primary source“It is not fair to ask of others what you are not willing to do yourself.”
— Eleanor Roosevelt Primary source“When you cease to make a contribution, you begin to die.”
— Eleanor Roosevelt Disputed“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.”
— Eleanor Roosevelt Disputed“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 together we have to talk.”
— Eleanor Roosevelt Disputed“I think that somehow, we learn who we really are and then live with that decision.”
— Eleanor Roosevelt Disputed“Friendship with oneself is all-important, because without it one cannot be friends with anyone else in the world.”
— Eleanor Roosevelt Disputed“The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams.”
— Eleanor Roosevelt Disputed“Understanding is a two-way street.”
— Eleanor Roosevelt Disputed“No one can make you feel inferior without your consent.”
— Eleanor Roosevelt DisputedHelen Keller Franklin D. Roosevelt Benjamin Franklin T. E. Lawrence Amelia Earhart