721 Quotes by Eleanor Roosevelt

We must do what we think we can't do.

A candle can bring light to a dungeon but it can also be used to light a deadly marijuana cigarette.

I have a great belief in spiritual force, but I think we have to realize that spiritual force alone has to have material force with it so long as we live in a material world. The two together make a strong combination.

It is impossible to be a cynic if you live a good deal with young people. Fundamentally, every young person has a feeling that the future is going to hold something of value.

You rarely achieve finality. If you did, life would be over, but as you strive new visions open before you, new possibilities for the satisfaction of living.

One of the best ways of enslaving a people is to keep them from education.

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.

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.

True hospitality consists of giving the best of yourself to your guests.