Terrific minds focus on tips; average minds go over activities; little minds talk about people today. Eleanor Roosevelt More Quotes by Eleanor Roosevelt More Quotes From Eleanor Roosevelt I wonder if Communists occupied in producing plays are not safer than Communists starving to death. I have always felt that whatever your beliefs might be, if you could earn enough to keep body and soul together and had to be pretty busy doing that, you would not be very apt to have time to plot the overthrow of any existing government. Eleanor Roosevelt political government play ...real prosperity can only come when everybody prospers. Eleanor Roosevelt politics political real If you have any interests you can gain a wider audience for those interests while the goldfish bowl is yours! Eleanor Roosevelt goldfish politics political So I took an interest in politics, but I don't know whether I enjoyed it! It was a wife's duty to be interested in whatever interested her husband, whether it was politics, books, or a particular dish for dinner. Eleanor Roosevelt wife husband book Perhaps in His wisdom the Almighty is trying to show us that a leader may chart the way, may point out the road to lasting peace, but that many leaders and many peoples must do the building. Eleanor Roosevelt leadership trying peace Make the most of What you have, When you have it, Where you are. Eleanor Roosevelt where-you-are witty There is nothing to regret, either for those who go, or for those who stay behind — only an inheritance of good accomplishment to be lived up to by those who carry a loving memory in their hearts. Eleanor Roosevelt left-behind behinds regret After the discovery in 1918 of love letters revealing that Franklin was involved with Lucy Mercer: The bottom dropped out of my own particular world, I faced myself, my surroundings, my world, honestly for the first time. Eleanor Roosevelt discovery love world I never thought of achievement. I just did what came along for me to do - the thing that gave me the most pleasure. Eleanor Roosevelt achievement pleasure work Old age has deformities enough of its own. It should never add to them the deformity of vice. Eleanor Roosevelt funny-relationship vices age The Bible illustrated by Dore occupied many of my hours - and I think probably gave me many nightmares. Eleanor Roosevelt nightmare hours thinking You can't move so fast that you try to change the mores faster than people can accept it. That doesn't mean you do nothing, but it means that you do the things that need to be done according to priority. Eleanor Roosevelt change inspirational moving I do not want church groups controlling the schools of our country. They must remain free. Eleanor Roosevelt atheism country school The morality of a [political] party must grow out of the conscience and the participation of the voters. Eleanor Roosevelt voters political party For instance, it is certain that women do not want a woman for President. Nor would they have the slightest confidence in her ability to fulfill the functions of that office. Eleanor Roosevelt confidence office president A trait no other nation seems to possess in quite the same degree as we do namely, a feeling of almost childish injury and resentment unless the world as a whole recognizes how innocent we are of anything but the most generous and harmless intentions Eleanor Roosevelt degrees feelings world Do not be afraid of mistakes, provided you do not make the same one twice. Eleanor Roosevelt mistake There are practical little things in housekeeping which no man really understands. Eleanor Roosevelt little-things littles men Staying aloof is not a solution, it is a cowardly evasion. Eleanor Roosevelt evasion staying solutions You do the things that need to be done according to priority. Eleanor Roosevelt priorities done needs
