Hate and force cannot be in just a part of the world without having an effect on the rest of it. Eleanor Roosevelt More Quotes by Eleanor Roosevelt More Quotes From Eleanor Roosevelt It isn't enough to talk about peace. One must believe in it. And it isn't enough to believe in it. One must work at it. Eleanor Roosevelt fidgeting peace believe I have always seen life personally; my interest or sympathy or indignation is not aroused by an abstract cause but by the plight of a single person...Out of my response to an individual develops an awareness of a problem to the community, then to the country, then to the world. Eleanor Roosevelt causes community country I never met Mahatma Gandhi, but, I think everyone felt they knew him even if they hadn't met him. Eleanor Roosevelt mets felt thinking It takes courage to love, but pain through love is the purifying fire which those who love generously know. Eleanor Roosevelt pain inspirational love There is nothing to fear except fear it's self. Eleanor Roosevelt courageous self inspirational Anyone who knows history, particularly the history of Europe, will, I think, recognize that the domination of education or of government by any one particular religious faith is never a happy arrangement for the people. Eleanor Roosevelt faith education happiness I have spent many years of my life in opposition, and I rather like the role. Eleanor Roosevelt life-lesson roles years Friendship with ones self is all important, because without it one cannot be friends with anyone else in the world. Eleanor Roosevelt positive relationship friendship Women are like tea bags: put them in hot water and they get stronger. Eleanor Roosevelt courage inspirational water We must be willing to learn the lesson that cooperation may imply compromise, but if it brings a world advance it is a gain for each individual nation. Eleanor Roosevelt gains lessons may You gain strength, courage, and confidence by every experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face.... The danger lies in refusing to face the fear, in not daring to come to grips with it. If you fail anywhere along the line it will take away your confidence. You must make yourself succeed every time. You must do the thing you think you cannot do. Eleanor Roosevelt growth lying thinking Comparison is the thief of all joy. Eleanor Roosevelt comparison thieves joy Your life is your own. You mold it. You make it. All anyone can do is to point out ways and means which have been helpful to others. Perhaps they will serve as suggestions to stimulate your own thinking until you know what it is that will fulfill you, will help you to find out what you want to do with your life. Eleanor Roosevelt mold mean thinking The encouraging thing is that every time you meet a situation, though you may think at the time it is an impossibility and you go through the tortures of the damned, once you have met it and lived through it you find that forever after you are freer than you ever were before. . . . You gain strength, courage, and confidence by every experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face. You are able to say to yourself, “I lived through this horror. I can take the next thing that comes along. Eleanor Roosevelt forever looks thinking All of us ... should remember that no amount of flag-waving, pledging allegiance, or fervent singing of the national anthem is evidence that we are patriotic in the real sense of the word. ... Outward behavior, while important, is not the real measure of a man's patriotism. Eleanor Roosevelt patriotic real men Your ambition should be to get as much life out of living as you possibly can, as much enjoyment, as much interest, as much experience, as much understanding. Not simply be what is generally called a 'success.' Eleanor Roosevelt understanding ambition should I carried it (a revolver) religiously and during the summer I asked a friend, a man who had been one of Franklin's bodyguards in New York State, to give me some practice in target shooting so that if the need arose I would know how to use the gun. Eleanor Roosevelt new-york summer men All the water in the world cannot drown you unless it gets inside of you. Eleanor Roosevelt water world We mast show by our behavior that we believe in equality and justice and that our religion teaches faith and love and charity to our fellow men. Here is where each of us has a job to do that must be done at home, because we can lose the battle on the soil of the United States just as surely as we can lose it in any one of the countries of the world. Eleanor Roosevelt jobs believe country All human beings have failings, all human beings have needs and temptations and stresses. Men and women who live together through long years get to know one another's failings; but they also come to know what is worthy of respect and admiration in those they live with and in themselves. If at the end one can say, This man used to the limit the powers that God granted him; he was worthy of love and respect and of the sacrifices of many people, made in order that he might achieve what he deemed to be his task, then that life has been lived well and there are no regrets. Eleanor Roosevelt stress regret love
