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It is our freedom to progress that makes us all want to live and to go on.

It is our freedom to progress that makes us all want to live and to go on.

Eleanor Roosevelt
Progress, Goes On, Want
Eleanor Roosevelt, David Emblidge (2009). “My Day: The Best of Eleanor Roosevelt's Acclaimed Newspaper Columns, 1936-1962”, p.54, Da Capo Press

An economic policy which does not consider the well-being of all will not serve the purposes of peace and the growth of well-being among the people of all nations.

Eleanor Roosevelt
People, Growth, Doe

Feelings, too, are facts. Emotion is a fact. Human experience is a fact. It is often possible to gain more real insight into human beings and their motivation by reading great fiction than by personal acquaintance.

Eleanor Roosevelt
Motivation, Real, Reading

One of the blessings of age is to learn not to part on a note of sharpness, to treasure the moments spent with those we love, and to make them whenever possible good to remember, for time is short.

Eleanor Roosevelt
Blessing, Age, Treasure
Eleanor Roosevelt, David Emblidge (1989). “Eleanor Roosevelt's My Day: Her Acclaimed Columns, 1936-1945”

This living in a democracy is a problem, isn't it?

Eleanor Roosevelt
Democracy, Problem, Miscellaneous
Eleanor Roosevelt, David Emblidge (2009). “My Day: The Best of Eleanor Roosevelt's Acclaimed Newspaper Columns, 1936-1962”, p.56, Da Capo Press

When you are genuinely interested in one thing, it will always lead to something else.

Eleanor Roosevelt
One Thing
Eleanor Roosevelt (1960). “You Learn by Living”, p.14, Westminster John Knox Press

Be flexible, but stick to your principles.

Eleanor Roosevelt
Sticks, Principles, Flexible
Eleanor Roosevelt (1962). “Book of common sense etiquette”

No, I have never wanted to be a man. I have often wanted to be more effective as a woman, but I have never felt that trousers would do the trick!

Eleanor Roosevelt
Men, Tricks, Wanted
Eleanor Roosevelt (1946). “If You Ask Me”

About the only value the story of my life may have is to show that one can, even without any particular gifts, overcome obstacles that seem insurmountable if one is willing to face the fact that they must be overcome.

Eleanor Roosevelt
Overcoming, Stories, May
Eleanor Roosevelt (1961). “Autobiography”

I believe that it is essential to our leadership in the world and to the development of true democracy in our country to have no discrimination in our country whatsoever. This is most important in the schools of our country.

Eleanor Roosevelt
Country, Women, Believe

Our children should learn the general framework of their government and then they should know where they come in contact with the government, where it touches their daily lives and where their influence is exerted on the government. It must not be a distant thing, someone else's business, but they must see how every cog in the wheel of a democracy is important and bears its share of responsibility for the smooth running of the entire machine.

Eleanor Roosevelt
Running, Children, Responsibility

I would not be happy unless I had some regular work to do every day and I imagine that I will always feel that way no matter how old I am.

Eleanor Roosevelt
Matter, Way, Imagine
Eleanor Roosevelt, David Emblidge (2009). “My Day: The Best of Eleanor Roosevelt's Acclaimed Newspaper Columns, 1936-1962”, p.98, Da Capo Press

It is equality of monotony which makes the strength of the British Isles.

Eleanor Roosevelt
British, Isle, Monotony

We have reached a point today where labor-saving devices are good only when they do not throw the worker out of his job.

Eleanor Roosevelt
Jobs, Saving, Today
Eleanor Roosevelt (2007). “The Eleanor Roosevelt Papers: The human rights years, 1945-1948”, Charles Scribner's Sons

Criticism ... makes very little dent upon me, unless I think there is some real justification and something should be done.

Eleanor Roosevelt
Real, Thinking, Criticism

Be confident, not certain

Eleanor Roosevelt
Be Confident, Certain

Every woman wants to be first to someone sometime in her life and that desire is the explanation for many strange things women do.

Eleanor Roosevelt
Desire, Want, Firsts
Joseph P. Lash, Eleanor Roosevelt (1984). “A World of Love: Eleanor Roosevelt and Her Friends, 1943-1962”, Doubleday Books

All wars eventually act as boomerangs and the victor suffers as much as the vanquished.

Eleanor Roosevelt
Peace, War, Suffering
Eleanor Roosevelt, David Emblidge (1989). “Eleanor Roosevelt's My Day: Her Acclaimed Columns, 1936-1945”

If quitting smoking seems hard right now, it is exactly what you should start doing

Eleanor Roosevelt
Encouragement, Smoking, Quitting

When you build a memorial, you build it not because the person wanted it, but for the future -- for generations who didn't know the man and didn't know the era in which he lived.

Eleanor Roosevelt
Men, Memorial, Eras

Everyone has the right to freedom of thought, conscience and religion; this right includes freedom to change his religion or belief, and freedom, either alone or in community with others and in public or private, to manifest his religion or belief in teaching, practice, worship and observance.

Eleanor Roosevelt
Teaching, Practice, Community
Eleanor Roosevelt, Harry S. Truman, Steve Neal (2002). “Eleanor and Harry: The Correspondence of Eleanor Roosevelt and Harry S. Truman”, p.279, Simon and Schuster

Keep us at tasks too hard for us that we may be driven to Thee for strength.

Eleanor Roosevelt
Tasks, May, Driven

If you prepare yourself at every point as well as you can, with whatever means you may have, however meager they may seem, you will be able to grasp opportunity for broader experience when it appears. Without preparation you cannot do it.

Eleanor Roosevelt
Mean, Opportunity, Preparation
Eleanor Roosevelt (2014). “The Autobiography of Eleanor Roosevelt”, p.8, Harper Collins

We need our radicals.

Eleanor Roosevelt
Needs, Radicalism, Radical

Because they have so little, children must rely on imagination rather than experience.

Eleanor Roosevelt
Children, Imagination, Littles
Eleanor Roosevelt (1960). “You Learn by Living”, p.17, Westminster John Knox Press

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