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I have a great objection to seeing anyone, particularly anyone whom I care about, lose his self-control.

I have a great objection to seeing anyone, particularly anyone whom I care about, lose his self-control.

Eleanor Roosevelt
Self, Care, Objections

The economy of communism is an economy which grows in an atmosphere of misery and want.

Eleanor Roosevelt
Atmosphere, Want, Misery

What we apparently have failed to grasp is that, in this new world in which we live, the collective hunger of great masses of people, wherever they may be, will affect our long-range welfare, just as though they were our own people.

Eleanor Roosevelt
Long, People, World

Our obligation to the world is, primarily, our obligation to our own future. Obviously, we cannot develop beyond a certain point unless other nations develop, too.

Eleanor Roosevelt
United States, World, Certain

There are three fundamentals for human happiness - love and faith, and work which will produce at least a minimum of material security. These things must be made possible for all human beings, men and women alike.

Eleanor Roosevelt
Happiness, Men, Three
Eleanor Roosevelt (1938). “My Days”

To appear to be on the inside and know more than others about what is going on is a great temptation for most people. It is a rare person who is willing to seem to know less than he does ... Somehow, people seem to feel that it is belittling to their importance not to know more than other people.

Eleanor Roosevelt
Knowledge, Humility, Rare Person

You seem to think that everyone can save money if they have the character to do it. As a matter of fact, there are innumerable people who have a wide choice between saving and giving their children the best possible opportunities. The decision is usually in favor of the children.

Eleanor Roosevelt
Children, Character, Opportunity

There is in every country an antipathy to the foreigner.

Eleanor Roosevelt
Country, Outsiders, Foreigners
Eleanor Roosevelt (1962). “Book of common sense etiquette”

This freedom of which men speak, for which they fight, seems to some people a perilous thing. It has to be earned at a bitter cost and then — it has to be lived with. For freedom makes a huge requirement of every human being. With freedom comes responsibility.

Eleanor Roosevelt
Freedom, Responsibility, Fighting
Eleanor Roosevelt (1960). “You Learn by Living”, p.152, Westminster John Knox Press

One has to live in Washington to know what a city of rumors it is.

Eleanor Roosevelt
Cities, Rumor, Knows
Eleanor Roosevelt, David Emblidge (1989). “Eleanor Roosevelt's My Day: Her Acclaimed Columns, 1936-1945”

Friendship with oneself is all important.

Eleanor Roosevelt
Friendship, Self Esteem, Love Yourself
Eleanor Roosevelt (1995). “What I Hope to Leave Behind: The Essential Essays of Eleanor Roosevelt”, Carlson Pub

The hard part of loving is that one has to learn so often to let go of those we love, so they can do things, so they can grow, so they can return to us with an even richer, deeper love.

Eleanor Roosevelt
Love, Letting Go, Return

I have always felt that it was important that everyone who was a worker join a labor organization.

Eleanor Roosevelt
Organization, Important, Organize
Eleanor Roosevelt (1995). “What I Hope to Leave Behind: The Essential Essays of Eleanor Roosevelt”, Carlson Pub

... the next war will be a war in which people not armies will suffer, and our boasted, hard-earned civilization will do us no good. Cannot the women rise to this great opportunity and work now, and not have the double horror, if another war comes, of losing their loved ones, and knowing that they lifted no finger when they might have worked hard?

Eleanor Roosevelt
War, Army, Opportunity

The world conspires to help those who are in love with the beauty of their dreams.

Eleanor Roosevelt
Dream, World, Helping

If we fail to meet our problems here, no one else in the world will do so. If we fail, the heart goes out of progressives throughout the world.

Eleanor Roosevelt
Heart, Democracy, World

As with all children, the feeling that I was useful was perhaps the greatest joy I experienced.

Eleanor Roosevelt
Children, Joy, Feelings

I was perfectly certain that I had nothing to offer of an individual nature and that my only chance of doing my duty as the wife of a public official was to do exactly as the majority of women were doing.

Eleanor Roosevelt
Wife, Majority, Politics
Eleanor Roosevelt (1961). “Autobiography”

Organize first for knowledge, first with the object of making us know ourselves as a nation, for we have to do that before we canbe of value to other nations of the world and then organize to accomplish the things that you decide to want. Anddon't make decisions with the interest of youth alone before you. Make your decisions because they are good for the nation as a whole.

Eleanor Roosevelt
Organization, Decision, World

The labor movement has a great role to play in our country today.

Eleanor Roosevelt
Country, Play, Roles

Do the things that interest you and do them with all your heart.

Eleanor Roosevelt
Heart, Interest
Eleanor Roosevelt (1960). “You Learn by Living”, p.32, Westminster John Knox Press

We women are callow fledglings as compared with the wise old birds who manipulate the political machinery, and we still hesitate to believe that a woman can fill certain positions in public life as competently and adequately as a man. For instance, it is certain that women do not want a woman for President. Nor would they have the slightest confidence in her ability to fulfill the functions of that office. Every woman who fails in a public position confirms this, but every woman who succeeds creates confidence.

Eleanor Roosevelt
Wise, Believe, Men
Eleanor Roosevelt (1995). “What I Hope to Leave Behind: The Essential Essays of Eleanor Roosevelt”, Carlson Pub

Somehow we must be able to show people that democracy is not about words, but action.

Eleanor Roosevelt
People, Democracy, Able

... any citizen should be willing to give all that he has to give his country in work or sacrifice in times of crisis.

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

I do not think I will ever become deadened, because I live in other people's lives, I must admit there are times when it weighs medown because I can't do some of the things I want.

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

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