More people are ruined by victory, I imagine, than be defeat. Eleanor Roosevelt More Quotes by Eleanor Roosevelt More Quotes From Eleanor Roosevelt The important thing is neither your nationality nor the religion you professed, but how your faith translated itself in your life. Eleanor Roosevelt important-things important religion I wonder if one of the penalties of growing older is that you become more and more conscious that nothing is very permanent. Eleanor Roosevelt entrepreneur growing wonder Friends, you and me... you brought another friend... and then there were three... we started our group... our circle of friends... and like that circle... there is no beginning or end. Eleanor Roosevelt groups circles three You need not be proud of me.... I'm only being active till you can be again--it isn't such a great desire on my part to serve theworld and I'll fall back into habits of sloth quite easily! Eleanor Roosevelt marriage sloth fall ...but there isn't going to be any First Lady. There is just to be plain, ordinary Mrs. Roosevelt...I never wanted to be the president's wife, and don't want it now. You don't quite believe me, do you? Very likely no one would-except possibly some woman who had had the job. Eleanor Roosevelt wife jobs believe No, I have never wanted to be a man. I have often wanted to be more effective as a woman, but I have never felt that trousers would do the trick! Eleanor Roosevelt tricks wanted men it is always easier to do nothing than to try a new line of action. Eleanor Roosevelt lines action trying This freedom of which men speak, for which they fight, seems to some people a perilous thing. It has to be earned at a bitter cost and then it has to be lived with. For freedom makes a huge requirement of every human being. With freedom comes responsibility. Eleanor Roosevelt freedom fighting responsibility One of the best ways of enslaving a people is to keep them from education. Eleanor Roosevelt education people way Poverty is an expensive luxury. We cannot afford it. Eleanor Roosevelt luxury poverty expensive I think it is impossible for one human being really to know another without first knowing and being at peace with himself. Eleanor Roosevelt being-real knowing thinking There is a desire for progress in the hearts of all men, and it is the sense of frustration and inability to move forward that brings violent revolution. Eleanor Roosevelt frustration heart moving About the only value the story of my life may have is to show that one can, even without any particular gifts, overcome obstacles that seem insurmountable if one is willing to face the fact that they must be overcome. Eleanor Roosevelt overcoming stories may Always be on time. Never try to make any personal engagements. Do as little talking as humanly possible. Never be disturbed by anything. Always do what you're told to do as quickly as possible. Remember to lean back in a parade, so that people can see your husband. Don't get too fat to ride three on a seat. Get out of the way as quickly as you're not needed. Eleanor Roosevelt husband talking people If it's a man's game so decidedly that a woman would be soiled by entering it, then there is something radically wrong with the American game of politics. Eleanor Roosevelt would-be games men ... many of the things which we deplore, the prevalence of tuberculosis, the mounting record of crime in certain sections of the country, are not due just to lack of education and to physical differences, but are due in great part to the basic fact of segregation which we have set up in this country and which warps and twists the lives not only of our Negro population, but sometimes of foreign born or even of religious groups. Eleanor Roosevelt differences religious country This is a time for action not for war, but for mobilization of every bit of peace machinery. Eleanor Roosevelt action war peace No one from the beginning of time has had security. Eleanor Roosevelt security adventure You should always own a black dress because no one ever remembers a black dress. Eleanor Roosevelt black dresses remember There is not human being from whom we cannot learn something if we are interested enough to dig deep. Eleanor Roosevelt dig-deep humans enough
