Quotes from Eleanor Roosevelt
When will our consciences grow so tender that we will act to prevent human misery rather than avenge it?
— Eleanor Roosevelt
Work is always an antidote to depression.
— Eleanor Roosevelt
I believe that anyone can conquer fear by doing the things he fears to do ...
— Eleanor Roosevelt
Remember always that you have not only the right to be an individual; you have an obligation to be one. You cannot make any useful contribution in life unless you do this.
— Eleanor Roosevelt
People grow through experience if they meet life honestly and courageously. This is how character is built.
— Eleanor Roosevelt
Light a candle instead of cursing the darkness.
— Eleanor Roosevelt
When you cease to make a contribution, you begin to die.
— Eleanor Roosevelt
Pit race against race, religion against religion, prejudice against prejudice. Divide and conquer! We must not let that happen here.
— Eleanor Roosevelt
Today is the oldest you've ever been, and the youngest you'll ever be again.
— Eleanor Roosevelt
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?
— Eleanor Roosevelt
There is not human being from whom we cannot learn something if we are interested enough to dig deep.
— Eleanor Roosevelt
It is better to light a single candle than to curse the darkness.
— Eleanor Roosevelt