Be flexible, but stick to your principles. Eleanor Roosevelt More Quotes by Eleanor Roosevelt More Quotes From Eleanor Roosevelt Feelings, too, are facts. Emotion is a fact. Human experience is a fact. It is often possible to gain more real insight into human beings and their motivation by reading great fiction than by personal acquaintance. Eleanor Roosevelt motivation real reading 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. Eleanor Roosevelt rights men country If the use of leisure time is confined to looking at TV for a few extra hours every day, we will deteriorate as a people. Eleanor Roosevelt use work people The choices we make are ultimately our responsibility. Eleanor Roosevelt personal-accountability being-yourself responsibility The constant pressure to bring about conformity is a dangerous thing. Eleanor Roosevelt conformity dangerous pressure All big things in human history have been arrived at slowly and through many compromises. Eleanor Roosevelt compromise bigs humans Success in marriage depends on being able, when you get over being in love, to really love....You never know anyone until you marry them. Eleanor Roosevelt being-in-love able love-you I consider those are rich who are doing something they feel worthwhile and which they enjoy doing. Eleanor Roosevelt worthwhile rich enjoy It is curious how much more interest can be evoked by a mixture of gossip, romance and mystery than by facts. Eleanor Roosevelt mixtures gossip romance Do the things that interest you and do them with all your heart. Eleanor Roosevelt interest heart I kept praying that I might be able to prevent a repetition of this stupidity called war. I have tried to keep the promise I made to myself, but the progress that the world is making toward peace seems like the crawling of a little child, very halting and slow. Eleanor Roosevelt war peace children There is in every country an antipathy to the foreigner. Eleanor Roosevelt foreigners outsiders country One has to live in Washington to know what a city of rumors it is. Eleanor Roosevelt rumor cities knows Somehow we must be able to show people that democracy is not about words, but action. Eleanor Roosevelt democracy able people I often wonder how we can make the more fortunate in this country fully aware of the fact that the problem of the unemployed is not a mechanical one. It is a problem alive and throbbing with human pain. Eleanor Roosevelt unemployment pain country As life developed, I faced each problem as it came along. As my activities and work broadened and reached out, I never tried to shirk. I tried never to evade an issue. When I found I had something to do--I just did it. Eleanor Roosevelt issues courage work Men have to be reminded that women exist. Eleanor Roosevelt men I used to tell my husband that, if he could make me 'understand' something, it would be clear to all the other people in the country. Eleanor Roosevelt soulmate marriage country it is harder to be philosophical when you are young. Eleanor Roosevelt philosophical youth young We have come to accept bigger and bigger things as meaning greater and greater efficiency, more and more prosperity and more and more freedom. The two do not go together of necessity. Eleanor Roosevelt size together two
