721 Quotes by Eleanor Roosevelt

More people are ruined by victory, I imagine, than be defeat.

it is harder to be philosophical when you are young.

Anyone who has gone through great suffering is bound to have a greater sympathy and understanding of the problems of mankind.

To undo mistakes is always harder than not to create them originally, but we seldom have foresight. Therefore, we have no choice but to try to correct our past mistakes.

I have often thought that less is expected of the president of a great corporation than of an American wife.

Keep us at tasks too hard for us that we may be driven to Thee for strength.

What I have learned from my own experience is that the most important ingredients in a child's education are curiosity, interest, imagination, and a sense of the adventure of life.

How can we be such fools as to go on senselessly taking human life in this way? Why the women in every nation do not rise up and refuse to bring children into a world of this kind is beyond my understanding.

This is a strange, little, complacent country [Switzerland], in many ways a USA in miniature but of course nearer the center of disturbance!