I learned then that practically no one in the world is entirely bad or entirely good, and that motives are often more important than actions. Eleanor Roosevelt More Quotes by Eleanor Roosevelt More Quotes From Eleanor Roosevelt Usefulness, whatever form it may take, is the price we should pay for the air we breathe and the food we eat and the privilege of being alive. Eleanor Roosevelt aliveairmay Obedience may have its uses, but it is no substitute for willing, uncoerced co-operation. Eleanor Roosevelt obedienceusemay 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 flavornextmen The freedom of man, I contend, is the freedom to eat. Eleanor Roosevelt hungermen It seems to me that it is the basic right of any human being to work. Eleanor Roosevelt humanswisdomwise The basis of world peace is the teaching which runs through almost all the great religions of the world. "Love thy neighbor as thyself." Christ, some of the other great Jewish teachers, Buddha, all preached it. Their followers forgot it. What is the trouble between capital and labor, what is the trouble in many of our communities, but rather a universal forgetting that this teaching is one of our first obligations. Eleanor Roosevelt runningteacherpeace What one has to do usually can be done. Eleanor Roosevelt encouragingpoliticalwork You gain strength, courage, and confidence by doing the thing which you think you cannot do. Eleanor Roosevelt cancerfearrunning I know that we will be the sufferers if we let great wrongs occur without exerting ourselves to correct them. Eleanor Roosevelt sufferersifsknows If life were predictable it would cease to be life, and be without flavor. Eleanor Roosevelt flavorifslife My experience has been that work is almost the best way to pull oneself out of the depths. Eleanor Roosevelt strong-womenworkway Ambition is pitiless. Any merit that it cannot use it finds despicable. Eleanor Roosevelt meritambitionuse Life is what you make it. Always has been, always will be. Eleanor Roosevelt motivationalinspirationallife I can not believe that war is the best solution. No one won the last war, and no one will win the next war. Eleanor Roosevelt winningwarbelieve Happiness is not a goal, it is a by-product. Paradoxically, the one sure way not to be happy is deliberately to map out a way of life in which one would please oneself completely and exclusively. Eleanor Roosevelt businessgoalway Every time you meet a situation you 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 were before. Eleanor Roosevelt courageinspirationallife Since you get more joy out of giving joy to others, you should put a good deal of thought into the happiness that you are able to give. Eleanor Roosevelt depressionhappinesslife 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 our-countrycountrypeople The war for freedom will never really be won because the price of freedom is constant vigilance over ourselves and over our Government. Eleanor Roosevelt libertarian-partyfreedomwar We need not fear any isms if our democracy is achieving the ends for which it was established. Eleanor Roosevelt democracyfearneeds
