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I think that in great crises you need to have deep rooted convictions and I have a feeling from the kind of campaigns that I have watched Mr. Nixon in in the past that his convictions are not very strong.

I think that in great crises you need to have deep rooted convictions and I have a feeling from the kind of campaigns that I have watched Mr. Nixon in in the past that his convictions are not very strong.

Eleanor Roosevelt
Strong, Past, Thinking
Source: www.hrc.utexas.edu

You'll be "damned if you do, and damned if you don't."

Eleanor Roosevelt
Criticism, Criticize, Critics
"How to Stop Worrying and Start Living". Book by Dale Carnegie, 1948.

People who 'view with alarm' never build anything.

Eleanor Roosevelt
Views, People, Negativity
Eleanor Roosevelt (2012). “Tomorrow Is Now: It Is Today That We Must Create the World of the Future”, p.44, Penguin

You can never really live anyone else's life, not even your child's. The influence you exert is through your own life, and what you've become yourself.

Eleanor Roosevelt
Children, Transcendentalism, Influence

those who attack always do so with greater fervor than those who defend.

Eleanor Roosevelt
Conflict, Fervor, Greater
Eleanor Roosevelt (1938). “My Days”

Each time you learn something new you must readjust the whole framework of your knowledge

Eleanor Roosevelt
Inspirational, Something New, Framework
Eleanor Roosevelt (1960). “You Learn by Living”, p.78, Westminster John Knox Press

Beautiful old people are works of art.

Eleanor Roosevelt
Beautiful, Art, Nursing

We need emotional outlets in this country, and the more artistic people we develop the better it will be for us as a nation.

Eleanor Roosevelt
Country, Creativity, Emotional
Eleanor Roosevelt (1938). “My Days”

I received a most amusing postcard the other morning. Unfortunately, it was not signed in a readable manner so I cannot answer it privately. But it comes from Moblie, Ala., and says: 'Dear Mrs. Roosevelt: You have not answered my question, the amount of Negro blood you have in your veins, if any.' I am afraid none of us know how much nor what kind of blood we have in our veins, since chemically it is all the same. And most of us cannot trace our ancestry more than a few generations.

Eleanor Roosevelt
Morning, Blood, Racism
Eleanor Roosevelt (1991). “Eleanor Roosevelt's My Day: First lady of the world, her acclaimed columns, 1953-1962”

No one can move without some leadership.

Eleanor Roosevelt
Moving
Source: www.hrc.utexas.edu

I feel quite sure that the American people, if they have knowledge and leadership, can meet any crisis just as well as they met it over and over again in the past.

Eleanor Roosevelt
Past, People, Mets
Source: www.hrc.utexas.edu

If you must compromise, compromise up.

Eleanor Roosevelt
Inspirational, Compromise, Ifs

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.

Eleanor Roosevelt
Future, Thinking, Today
Eleanor Roosevelt (1938). “My Days”

Mozart, who was buried in a pauper’s grave, was one of the greatest successes we know of, a man who in his early thirties had poured out his inexhaustible gift of music, leaving the world richer because he had passed that way. To leave the world richer—that is the ultimate success.

Eleanor Roosevelt
Inspirational, Men, Leaving
Eleanor Roosevelt (1960). “You Learn by Living”, p.119, Westminster John Knox Press

The word communist, of course, has become a rallying cry for certain people here just as the word Jew was in Hitler's Germany, a way of arousing emotion without engendering thought.

Eleanor Roosevelt
Rallying Cry, People, Germany

Of all the nations in the Western world, the United States, with the most money and the most time, has the fewest readers of books per capita. This is an incalculable loss. This, too, is one of the few civilized nations in the world which is unable to support a single magazine devoted solely to books.

Eleanor Roosevelt
Book, Reading, Loss

The film industry is a great industry, with infinite possibilities for good and bad. Its primary purpose is to entertain people. On the side, it can do many other things. It can popularize certain ideals, it can make education palatable. But in the long run, the judge who decides whether what it does is good or bad is the man or woman who attends the movies.

Eleanor Roosevelt
Running, Men, Judging
"My Day" Column by Eleanor Roosevelt, www2.gwu.edu. October 29, 1947.

The motivating force of the theory of a Democratic way of life is still a belief that as individuals we live cooperatively, and, to the best of our ability, serve the community in which we live.

Eleanor Roosevelt
Community, Way, Belief
Eleanor Roosevelt (1995). “What I Hope to Leave Behind: The Essential Essays of Eleanor Roosevelt”, Carlson Pub

...conservation of land and conservation of people frequently go hand in hand.

Eleanor Roosevelt
Hands, Land, People
Eleanor Roosevelt, David Emblidge (1989). “Eleanor Roosevelt's My Day: Her Acclaimed Columns, 1936-1945”

it is always easier to do nothing than to try a new line of action.

Eleanor Roosevelt
Trying, Lines, Action
Eleanor Roosevelt (1938). “My Days”

...but there isn't going to be any First Lady. There is just to be plain, ordinary Mrs. Roosevelt...I never wanted to be the president's wife, and don't want it now. You don't quite believe me, do you? Very likely no one would-except possibly some woman who had had the job.

Eleanor Roosevelt
Jobs, Believe, Wife

A woman has, first of all, her duties in their own home, and there are many women particularly when they're young, who can do an active job in their community like being a mayor, but who cannot go to Washington or Albany or wherever the capital of the state is. There are others who can, can leave home, whose children are older and so forth. I think it all is a personal decision.

Eleanor Roosevelt
Jobs, Children, Home
Source: archives.nbclearn.com

To some of us, hunger was more academic than real, but we must try to develop the ability to feel the urgency of such a situation.

Eleanor Roosevelt
Real, Trying, Hunger

It seems to me that I cannot afford, as a self-respecting individual, to refuse to do a thing merely because it will make me disliked or bring down a storm of criticism on my head.

Eleanor Roosevelt
Women, Self, Storm
Eleanor Roosevelt (1992). “The Autobiography of Eleanor Roosevelt”

If you take stands in any way and people feel that you have any success in - a following, why those who disagree with you are going to feel very strongly about it.

Eleanor Roosevelt
People, Way, Feels
Source: www.hrc.utexas.edu

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