721 Quotes by Eleanor Roosevelt

Develop a skin as thick as a rhinoceros hide!

We women are callow fledglings as compared with the wise old birds who manipulate the political machinery, and we still hesitate to believe that a woman can fill certain positions in public life as competently and adequately as a man. 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. Every woman who fails in a public position confirms this, but every woman who succeeds creates confidence.

The trouble is that not enough people have come together with the firm determination to live the things which they say they believe.

Somehow we must be able to show people that democracy is not about words, but action.

Those of us who believe in the right of any human being to belong to whatever church he sees fit, and to worship God in his own way, cannot be accused of prejudice when we do not want to see public education connected with religious control of the schools, which are paid for by taxpayers' money.

If human beings can be trained for cruelty and greed and a belief in power which comes through hate and fear and force, certainly we can train equally well for greatness and mercy and the power of love which comes because of the strength of the good qualities to be found in the soul of every human being.

... any citizen should be willing to give all that he has to give his country in work or sacrifice in times of crisis.

It is not that you set the individual apart from society but that you recognize in any society that the individual must have rights that are guarded.

There is in every country an antipathy to the foreigner ...