Eleanor Roosevelt Quotes - Page 2

When will our consciences grow so tender that we are moved to prevent suffering, not just avenge it?

No one won the last war, and no one will win the next war.

Lest I keep my complacent way I must remember somewhere out there a person died for me today. As long as there must be war, I ask and I must answer was I worth dying for?

Anyone who thinks must think of the next war as they would of suicide.

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

You must do things that you cannot do.

Freedom makes a huge requirement of every human being. With freedom comes responsibility. For the person who is unwilling to grow up, the person who does not want to carry his own weight, this is a frightening prospect.

You can't move so fast that you try to change the mores faster than people can accept it. That doesn't mean you do nothing, but it means that you do the things that need to be done according to priority.

You must do the things you think you cannot.

Once I had a rose named after me and I was very flattered. But I was not pleased to read the description in the catalogue: "No good in a bed, but fine up against a wall.