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 It is so much easier to be enthusiastic than to reason! Eleanor Roosevelt easier enthusiasm reason I'm sure that all the drivers and motorcycle police had once been racing drivers and were eager to get back to that profession. Eleanor Roosevelt motorcycle police racing We can no longer oversimplify. We can no longer build lazy and false stereotypes: Americans are like this, Russians are like that, a Jew behaves in such a way, a Negro thinks in a different way. The lazy generalities - 'You know how women are ... Isn't that just like a man?' The world cannot be understood from a single point of view. Eleanor Roosevelt views men thinking Everyone has the right to work, to free choice of employment, to just and favorable conditions of work and to protection against unemployment. Eleanor Roosevelt conditions unemployment choices Curiously enough, it is often the people who refuse to assume any responsibility who are apt to be the sharpest critics of those who do. Eleanor Roosevelt assuming responsibility people We need emotional outlets in this country, and the more artistic people we develop the better it will be for us as a nation. Eleanor Roosevelt creativity emotional country talking too much is a far greater social fault than talking too little. Eleanor Roosevelt too-much littles talking All human beings are born free and equal in dignity and rights. Eleanor Roosevelt born-free dignity rights How hard it is to project oneself into the future. We are always prone to think of the conditions which are with us today as being permanent conditions. Eleanor Roosevelt future today thinking We cannot exist as a little island of well-being in a world where two-thirds of the people go to bed hungry every night. Eleanor Roosevelt islands night two Democracy cannot be static. Whatever is static is dead. Eleanor Roosevelt diversity democracy justice Nearly all great civilizations that perished did so because they had crystallized, because they were incapable of adapting themselves to new conditions, new methods, new points of view. It is as though people would rather die than change. Eleanor Roosevelt change views civilization All wars eventually act as boomerangs and the victor suffers as much as the vanquished. Eleanor Roosevelt suffering war peace To appear to be on the inside and know more than others about what is going on is a great temptation for most people. It is a rare person who is willing to seem to know less than he does ... Somehow, people seem to feel that it is belittling to their importance not to know more than other people. Eleanor Roosevelt rare-person humility knowledge A guest is really good or bad because of the host or hostess who makes being a guest an easy or a difficult task. Eleanor Roosevelt host tasks guests True hospitality consists of giving the best of yourself to your guests. Eleanor Roosevelt hospitality guests giving There are three fundamentals for human happiness - love and faith, and work which will produce at least a minimum of material security. These things must be made possible for all human beings, men and women alike. Eleanor Roosevelt three happiness men Our obligation to the world is, primarily, our obligation to our own future. Obviously, we cannot develop beyond a certain point unless other nations develop, too. Eleanor Roosevelt united-states certain world What we apparently have failed to grasp is that, in this new world in which we live, the collective hunger of great masses of people, wherever they may be, will affect our long-range welfare, just as though they were our own people. Eleanor Roosevelt long people world The word communist, of course, has become a rallying cry for certain people here just as the word Jew was in Hitler's Germany, a way of arousing emotion without engendering thought. Eleanor Roosevelt rallying-cry germany people
