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Life is what you make it. Always has been, always will be.

Life is what you make it. Always has been, always will be.

Eleanor Roosevelt
Inspirational, Life, Motivational

All of us in this country give lip service to the ideals set forth in the Bill of Rights and emphasized by every additional amendment, and yet when war is stirring in the world, many of us are ready to curtail our civil liberties. We do not stop to think that curtailing these liberties may in the end bring us a greater danger than the danger we are trying to avert.

Eleanor Roosevelt
Country, War, Thinking
Cosmopolitan, Feb. 1940

One thing life has taught me: if you are interested, you never have to look for new interests. They come to you. When you are genuinely interested in one thing, it will always lead to something else.

Eleanor Roosevelt
Inspirational, Life Lesson, Being Single
Eleanor Roosevelt (1960). “You Learn by Living”, p.14, Westminster John Knox Press

Each generation supposes that the world was simpler for the one before it.

Eleanor Roosevelt
Past, Generations, World
Eleanor Roosevelt (1960). “You Learn by Living”, p.16, Westminster John Knox Press

Where, after all, do universal human rights begin? In small places, close to home.

Eleanor Roosevelt
Home, Rights, Community
Eleanor Roosevelt, Allida Mae Black (2013). “Courage in a Dangerous World: The Political Writings of Eleanor Roosevelt”, p.190, Columbia University Press

Most of the work that's done in the world gets done by people who weren't feeling all that well at the time that they did it.

Eleanor Roosevelt
People, Feelings, Done

The word liberal comes from the word free. We must cherish and honor the word free or it will cease to apply to us.

Eleanor Roosevelt
Honor, Cherish, Cease

No human being can ever "own" another, whether in friendship, love, marriage or parenthood. Many human relationships have been ruined and happiness far too often changed to misery by a failure to understand this.

Eleanor Roosevelt
Relationship, Friendship Love, Misery

Your life is your own. You mold it. You make it. All anyone can do is to point out ways and means which have been helpful to others. Perhaps they will serve as suggestions to stimulate your own thinking until you know what it is that will fulfill you, will help you to find out what you want to do with your life.

Eleanor Roosevelt
Mean, Thinking, Mold

Of course, I do not believe in having everyone who is a liberal called a communist, or everyone who is conservative called a fascist.

Eleanor Roosevelt
Believe, Conservative, Communist
Eleanor Roosevelt, Allida M. Black (2009). “The Eleanor Roosevelt Papers: The Human Rights Years, 1945-1948”

Happiness is not a goal, it is a by-product. For what keeps our interest in life and makes us look forward to tomorrow is giving pleasure to other people.

Eleanor Roosevelt
People, Giving, Goal
Eleanor Roosevelt (1960). “You Learn by Living”, p.95, Westminster John Knox Press

a society in which there is widespread economic insecurity can turn freedom into a barren and vapid right for millions of people.

Eleanor Roosevelt
People, Insecurity, Poverty
The Struggle for Human Rights, delivered 28 September 1948, Paris, France

It is a curious thing in human experience, but to live through a period of stress and sorrow with another person, creates a bond which nothing seems able to break.

Eleanor Roosevelt
Friendship, Stress, Sorrow

If the use of leisure time is confined to looking at TV for a few extra hours every day, we will deteriorate as a people.

Eleanor Roosevelt
Work, People, Use
Eleanor Roosevelt, David Emblidge (2009). “My Day: The Best of Eleanor Roosevelt's Acclaimed Newspaper Columns, 1936-1962”, p.265, Da Capo Press

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.

Eleanor Roosevelt
Peace, Believe, Fidgeting
Voice of America broadcast, November 11, 1951.

Do the things that interest you and do them with all your heart. Don't be concerned about whether people are watching you or criticizing you. The chances are that they aren't paying attention to you.

Eleanor Roosevelt
Heart, People, Attention
Eleanor Roosevelt (1960). “You learn by living”, HarperCollins Publishers

We must know what we think and speak out, even at the risk of unpopularity.

Eleanor Roosevelt
Thinking, Speaks Out, Risk
"Tomorrow Is Now" by Eleanor Roosevelt, (pp. 119-120), 1963.

Where, after all, do universal human rights begin? In small places, close to home - so close and so small that they cannot be seen on any maps of the world. Yet they are the world of the individual person...Withou t concerted citizen action to uphold them close to home, we shall look in vain for progress in the larger world.

Eleanor Roosevelt
Home, Rights, Progress
Remarks at presentation of booklet on human rights, In Your Hands, to the United Nations Commission on Human Rights, United Nations, New York, March 27, 1958.

Your ambition should be to get as much life out of living as you possibly can, as much enjoyment, as much interest, as much experience, as much understanding. Not simply be what is generally called a 'success.'

Eleanor Roosevelt
Ambition, Understanding, Should
Eleanor Roosevelt (1960). “You Learn by Living”, p.118, Westminster John Knox Press

The very next thing you need to be doing is the thing that terrifies you the most.

Eleanor Roosevelt
Needs, Next

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.

Eleanor Roosevelt
Guests, Cleaning, Advantage

As for accomplishments, I just did what I had to do as things came along.

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

Do something everyday that scares you.

Eleanor Roosevelt
Everyday, Scare

We will never have peace without friendship around the world.

Eleanor Roosevelt
World, Around The World
Eleanor Roosevelt, David Emblidge (2009). “My Day: The Best of Eleanor Roosevelt's Acclaimed Newspaper Columns, 1936-1962”, p.103, Da Capo Press

The most unhappy people in the world are those who face the days without knowing what to do with their time. But if you have more projects than you have time for, you are not going to be an unhappy person. This is as much a question of having imagination and curiosity as it is of actually making plans.

Eleanor Roosevelt
Unhappy Person, Knowing, People
Eleanor Roosevelt (1960). “You Learn by Living”, p.55, Westminster John Knox Press

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