Famous Eleanor Roosevelt Quotes

  • …no one can afford not to be a man. No position can compensate for coming face to face with a robot when you are alone. – Eleanor Roosevelt

    …no one can afford not to be a man. No position can compensate for coming face to face with a robot when you are alone.– Eleanor Roosevelt

  • Success must include two things: the development of an individual to his utmost potentiality and a contribution of some kind to one’s world. – Eleanor Roosevelt

    Success must include two things: the development of an individual to his utmost potentiality and a contribution of some kind to one’s world.– Eleanor Roosevelt

  • I think, at a child’s birth, if a mother could ask a fairy godmother to endow it with the most useful gift, that gift would be curiosity. – Eleanor Roosevelt

    I think, at a child’s birth, if a mother could ask a fairy godmother to endow it with the most useful gift, that gift would be curiosity.– Eleanor Roosevelt

  • It takes as much energy to wish as it does to plan. – Eleanor Roosevelt

    It takes as much energy to wish as it does to plan.– Eleanor Roosevelt

  • If you want a world ruled by law and not by force you must build up, from the very grassroots, a respect for law. – Eleanor Roosevelt

    If you want a world ruled by law and not by force you must build up, from the very grassroots, a respect for law.– Eleanor Roosevelt

  • If man is to be liberated to enjoy more leisure, he must also be prepared to enjoy this leisure fully and creatively. – Eleanor Roosevelt

    If man is to be liberated to enjoy more leisure, he must also be prepared to enjoy this leisure fully and creatively.– Eleanor Roosevelt

  • Character building begins in our infancy and continues until death. – Eleanor Roosevelt

    Character building begins in our infancy and continues until death.– Eleanor Roosevelt

  • You not only have a right to be an individual. You have a responsibility. – Eleanor Roosevelt

    You not only have a right to be an individual. You have a responsibility.– Eleanor Roosevelt

  • What could we accomplish if we knew we could not fail? – Eleanor Roosevelt

    What could we accomplish if we knew we could not fail?– Eleanor Roosevelt

  • You wouldn’t worry so much about what others think of you if you realized how seldom they do. – Eleanor Roosevelt

    You wouldn’t worry so much about what others think of you if you realized how seldom they do.– Eleanor Roosevelt