721 Quotes by Eleanor Roosevelt

The only advantage of not being too good a housekeeper is that your guests are so pleased to feel how very much better they are.

So much attention is paid to the aggressive sins, such as violence and cruelty and greed with all their tragic effects, that too little attention is paid to the passive sins, such as apathy and laziness, which in the long run can have a more devastating effect.

No one can insult you without your permission.

Only a man's character is the real criterion of worth.

You achieve strength, braveness and confidence by each experience in which you really halt to search dread during the deal with

Somewhere along the line of development we discover what we really are, and then we make our real decision for which we are responsible. Make that decision primarily for yourself because you can never really live anyone else's life, not even your own child's.

It is very difficult to have a free, fair and honest press anywhere in the world. In the first place, as a rule, papers are largely supported by advertising, and that immediately gives the advertisers a certain hold over the medium they use.

It isn't enough to talk about peace. One must believe in it. And it isn't enough to believe in it. One must work at it.

day out-of-doors, someone I loved to talk with, a good book and some simple food and music -- that would be rest.