721 Quotes by Eleanor Roosevelt

The Marines I have seen around the world have the cleanest bodies, the filthiest minds, the highest morale, and the lowest morals of any group of animals I have ever seen. Thank God for the United States Marine Corps!

In business courtesy and efficiency have a symbiotic relationship.

We will have to want peace, want it enough to pay for it, before it becomes an accepted rule.

You gain strength, courage, and confidence by every experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face.... The danger lies in refusing to face the fear, in not daring to come to grips with it. If you fail anywhere along the line it will take away your confidence. You must make yourself succeed every time. You must do the thing you think you cannot do.

One of the first things we must get rid of is the idea that democracy is tantamount to capitalism.

Every woman who fails in a public position confirms this, but every woman who succeeds creates confidence.

You have to accept whatever comes and the only important thing is that you meet it with courage and with the best that you have to give.

Perhaps the basic thing which contributes to charm is the ability to forget oneself and be engrossed in other people.

What is to give light must endure the burning.