Background Image

...

Mahatma Gandhi I Would Say Had Perhaps A Greater Spiritual Quality Whereas Winston Churchill Had Besides The Courage, Ability And Above Everything Else, The Ability To Put Into Words What His People Felt So That He Could Always Lead Them. And My Own Husband I Think Had Great Patience, Which You Need In A Democracy Because You Have To Come To Do Fundamental Things, You Have To Have The Patience To Have People Educated; And Then I Think He Had A Deep Interest In Human Beings As Human Beings.

-Eleanor Roosevelt

...

Please Wait....
Translating....

Mahatma Gandhi I Would

Eleanor Roosevelt

...

Mahatma Gandhi I Would Say Had Perhaps A Greater Spiritual Quality Whereas Winston Churchill Had Besides The Courage, Ability And Above Everything Else, The Ability To Put Into Words What His People Felt So That He Could Always Lead Them. And My Own Husband I Think Had Great Patience, Which You Need In A Democracy Because You Have To Come To Do Fundamental Things, You Have To Have The Patience To Have People Educated; And Then I Think He Had A Deep Interest In Human Beings As Human Beings.

Views: 5

Topic

More From Eleanor Roosevelt

In All Our Contacts It Is Probably The Sense Of Being Really Needed And Wanted Which Gives Us The Greatest Satisfaction And Creates The Most Lasting Bond.

Curiously Enough, It Is Often The People Who Refuse To Assume Any Responsibility Who Are Apt To Be The Sharpest Critics Of Those Who Do.

The Destiny Of Human Rights Is In The Hands Of All Our Citizens In All Our Communities.

We Have Come To Accept Bigger And Bigger Things As Meaning Greater And Greater Efficiency, More And More Prosperity And More And More Freedom. The Two Do Not Go Together Of Necessity.

It Is Impossible To Be A Cynic If You Live A Good Deal With Young People. Fundamentally, Every Young Person Has A Feeling That The Future Is Going To Hold Something Of Value.

Do Not Be Afraid Of Mistakes, Provided You Do Not Make The Same One Twice.

If Life Were Predictable It Would Cease To Be Life, And Be Without Flavor.

You In The Unions Do Not Yet Represent All Of Labor. But I Hope Some Day You Will, Because I Believe That It Is Through Strength, Through The Fact That People Who Know What People Need Are Working To Make This Country A Better Place For All People, That We Will Help The World To Accept Our Leadership And Understand That, Under Our Form Of Government And Through Our Way Of Life, We Have Something To Offer Them.

I'm So Glad I Never Feel Important, It Does Complicate Life!

Everyone Has The Right To Work, To Free Choice Of Employment, To Just And Favorable Conditions Of Work And To Protection Against Unemployment.

Remember Always That You Have Not Only The Right To Be An Individual; You Have An Obligation To Be One.

Terrific Minds Focus On Tips; Average Minds Go Over Activities; Little Minds Talk About People Today.

Life's Not About Expecting, Hoping And Wishing. It's About Doing, Being And Becoming. It's About T Learn From The Mistakes Of Others. You Can't Live Long Enough To Make Them All Yourself.

I Have A Great Belief In Spiritual Force, But I Think We Have To Realize That Spiritual Force Alone Has To Have Material Force With It So Long As We Live In A Material World. The Two Together Make A Strong Combination.

The Future Is Literally In Our Hands To Mold As We Like. But We Cannot Wait Until Tomorrow. Tomorrow Is Now.

When You Cease To Make A Contribution, You Begin To Die.

The Only Joy In This Hard Life Is Serving Others.

Life Was Meant To Be Lived.

Inspirational Life

Were Meant To Be

If You Can Develop This Ability To See What You Look At, To Understand Its Meaning, To Readjust Your Knowledge To This New Information, You Can Continue To Learn And To Grow As Long As You Live And You’ll Have A Wonderful Time Doing It.

To Leave The World Richer—that Is The Ultimate Success.

Ultimate Success

Probably The Happiest Period In Life Most Frequently Is In Middle Age, When The Eager Passions Of Youth Are Cooled, And The Infirmities Of Age Not Yet Begun; As We See That The Shadows, Which Are At Morning And Evening So Large, Almost Entirely Disappear At Midday.

This Is Not A Time When Women Should Be Patient. We Are In A War And We Need To Fight It With All Our Ability And Every Weapon Possible. Women Pilots, In This Particular Case, Are A Weapon Waiting To Be Used.

If You Have To Compromise, Be Sure To Compromise Up.

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?

Each Of Us Has... All The Time There Is. Those Years, Weeks, Hours, Are The Sands In The Glass Running Swiftly Away. To Let Them Drift Through Our Fingers Is Tragic Waste. To Use Them To The Hilt, Making Them Count For Something, Is The Beginning Of Wisdom.

You Do The Things That Need To Be Done According To Priority.

Hate And Force Cannot Be In Just A Part Of The World Without Having An Effect On The Rest Of It.

Every Time You Meet A Situation You Think At The Time It Is An Impossibility And You Go Through The Tortures Of The Damned, Once You Have Met It And Lived Through It, You Find That Forever After You Are Freer Than You Were Before.

I Believe That All That We Go Through Here Must Have Some Value.

A Successful Life For A Man Or For A Woman Seems To Me To Lie In The Knowledge That One Has Developed To The Limit The Capacities With Which One Was Endowed; That One Has Contributed Something Constructive To Family And Friends And To A Home Community; That One Has Brought Happiness Wherever It Was Possible; That One Has Earned One's Way In The World, Has Kept Some Friends, And Need Not Be Ashamed To Face Oneself Honestly.

Democracy Cannot Be Static. Whatever Is Static Is Dead.

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.

Love Can Often Be Misguided And Do As Much Harm As Good, But Respect Can Do Only Good. It Assumes That The Other Person's Stature Is As Large As One's Own, His Rights As Reasonable, His Needs As Important.

Unused Ability, Like Unused Muscles, Will Atrophy.

The Mobilization Of World Opinion And Methods Of Negotiation Should Be Developed And Used By Every Nation In Order To Strengthen The United Nations.

To A Certain Extent I Don't See Any Real Need For Socialism In The United States Immediately, But Things Change And It May Be That There Will Come A Need For Partial Changes In Our Economy.

I Don't Know Much About Capitalism, But I Do Know About Democracy And Freedom, And If Capitalism May Change In Many, Many Ways, I'm Not Really Very Much Interested In Capitalism.

Be Confident, Not Certain

Absence Makes The Heart Grow Fonder

Usefulness, Whatever Form It May Take, Is The Price We Should Pay For The Air We Breathe And The Food We Eat And The Privilege Of Being Alive.

You Need Not Be Proud Of Me.... I'm Only Being Active Till You Can Be Again--it Isn't Such A Great Desire On My Part To Serve Theworld And I'll Fall Back Into Habits Of Sloth Quite Easily!

Anyone Who Has Gone Through Great Suffering Is Bound To Have A Greater Sympathy And Understanding Of The Problems Of Mankind.

I Believe That Anyone Can Conquer Fear By Doing The Things He Fears To Do.

Men Have To Be Reminded That Women Exist.

We Must Know What We Think And Speak Out, Even At The Risk Of Unpopularity.

Success In Marriage Depends On Being Able, When You Get Over Being In Love, To Really Love....you Never Know Anyone Until You Marry Them.

Comparison Is The Thief Of All Joy.

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.

Enjoy Every Minute You Have With Those You Love, My Dear, For No One Can Take Joy That Is Past Away From You. It Will Be There In Your Heart To Live On When The Dark Days Come.

We Must Want For Others, Not Ourselves Alone.

I Can't Tell You How To Succeed, But I Can Tell You How To Fail: Try To Please Everybody.

I Kept Praying That I Might Be Able To Prevent A Repetition Of This Stupidity Called War. I Have Tried To Keep The Promise I Made To Myself, But The Progress That The World Is Making Toward Peace Seems Like The Crawling Of A Little Child, Very Halting And Slow.

A Woman Is Like A Tea Bag - You Can't Tell How Strong She Is Until You Put Her In Hot Water.

To Most Teenagers, Life Is A Strange Uncharted Land Filled With A Mixture Of New Joys, Intensely Felt, And Painful Confusions For Which They Know No Anodyne.

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.

You'll Be "damned If You Do, And Damned If You Don't."

Life Has Got To Be Lived - That's All There Is To It. At Seventy, I Would Say The Advantage Is That You Take Life More Calmly. You Know That 'this, Too, Shall Pass!'

This Too Shall Pass

If We Do Not Pay For Children In Good Schools, Then We Are Going To Pay For Them In Prisons And Mental Hospitals.

True Hospitality Consists Of Giving The Best Of Yourself To Your Guests.

Power Corrupts. Knowledge Is Power. Study Hard. Be Evil.

Knowledge And Power

I Have Often Thought That Less Is Expected Of The President Of A Great Corporation Than Of An American Wife.

The People Who Came To New England, Came For Freedom Of Religion. The Problem Is, Freedom Of Religion To Them Meant Freedom For Only Their Religion

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.

We Have Reached A Point Today Where Labor-saving Devices Are Good Only When They Do Not Throw The Worker Out Of His Job.

If You Must Compromise, Compromise Up.

More People Are Ruined By Victory, I Imagine, Than Be Defeat.

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.

This Living In A Democracy Is A Problem, Isn't It?

A Day Out-of-doors, Someone I Loved To Talk With, A Good Book And Some Simple Food And Music - That Would Be Rest.

Courage Is More Exhilarating Than Fear And In The Long Run It Is Easier. We Do Not Have To Become Heroes Over Night. Just A Step At A Time, Meeting Each Thing That Comes Up, Seeing It Is Not As Dreadful As It Appeared, Discovering We Have The Strength To Stare It Down.

Remember, No One Can Make You Feel Inferior Without Being Related To You And Repeatedly Questioning Why You're In Nonprofit.

Questioning Why

You Have To Accept Whatever Comes And The Only Important Thing Is That You Meet It With Courage And With The Best That You Have To Give.

Marriage And The Up-bringing Of Children In The Home Require As Well-trained A Mind And As Well-disciplined A Character As Any Other Occupation That Might Be Considered A Career.

...but There Isn't Going To Be Any First Lady. There Is Just To Be Plain, Ordinary Mrs. Roosevelt...i Never Wanted To Be The President's Wife, And Don't Want It Now. You Don't Quite Believe Me, Do You? Very Likely No One Would-except Possibly Some Woman Who Had Had The Job.

You Never Have A Normal Family Relationship In The White House; It's An Impossible Thing To Have. You Live In A Goldfish Bubble, And You Snatch What You Can For A Personal Life, But You Never Have A Normal, Natural Existence.

Impossible Things

It's Your Life-but Only If You Make It So.

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 ... Such Are The Places Where Every Man, Woman And Child Seeks Equal Justice, Equal Opportunity, Equal Dignity Without Discrimination. Unless These Rights Have Meaning There, They Have Little Meaning Anywhere.

... Many Of The Things Which We Deplore, The Prevalence Of Tuberculosis, The Mounting Record Of Crime In Certain Sections Of The Country, Are Not Due Just To Lack Of Education And To Physical Differences, But Are Due In Great Part To The Basic Fact Of Segregation Which We Have Set Up In This Country And Which Warps And Twists The Lives Not Only Of Our Negro Population, But Sometimes Of Foreign Born Or Even Of Religious Groups.

Of Course, I Do Not Believe In Having Everyone Who Is A Liberal Called A Communist, Or Everyone Who Is Conservative Called A Fascist.

Many People Will Walk In And Out Of Your Life, But Only True Friends Will Leave Footprints In Your Heart

The Only Things One Can Admire At Length Are Those One Admires Without Knowing Why.

Sailors Have The Cleanest Bodies And The Filthiest Minds.

I Shall Either Find A Way, Or Make One (attributed)

Friendship With Oneself Is All Important.

You Can Often Change Your Circumstances By Changing Your Attitude

I Think That Somehow, We Learn Who We Really Are And Then Live With That Decision.

I Can Not Believe That War Is The Best Solution. No One Won The Last War, And No One Will Win The Next War.

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 Should Be Curiosity.

We Do Not Move Forward By Curtailing People's Liberty Because We Are Afraid Of What They May Do Or Say.

A Candle Can Bring Light To A Dungeon But It Can Also Be Used To Light A Deadly Marijuana Cigarette.

The Most Important Thing In Any Relationship Is Not What You Get But What You Give.... In Any Case, The Giving Of Love Is An Education In Itself.

Beautiful Old People Are Works Of Art.

Philosophy Is Not Best Expressed In Words; It Is Expressed In The Choices One Makes.

If You Believe That A Nation Is Really Better Off Which Achieves For A Comparative Few, Those Who Are Capable Of Attaining It, High Culture, Ease, Opportunity, And That These Few From Their Enlightenment Should Give What They Consider Best To Those Less Favored, Then You Naturally Belong To The Republican Party. But If You Believe That People Must Struggle Slowly To The Light For Themselves, Then It Seems To Me That You Are A Democrat.

If Quitting Smoking Seems Hard Right Now, It Is Exactly What You Should Start Doing

This Is A Strange, Little, Complacent Country [switzerland], In Many Ways A Usa In Miniature But Of Course Nearer The Center Of Disturbance!

Do The Things That Interest You And Do Them With All Your Heart.

Get Out Of The Way As Quickly As You're Not Needed.

We Will Never Have Peace Without Friendship Around The World.

Around The World

Tomorrow Is A Mystery. Today Is A Gift. That Is Why It Is Called The Present.

One Thing Is For Sure-none Of The Arts Flourishes On Censorship And Repression. And By This Time It Should Be Evident That The American Public Is Capable Of Doing Its Own Censoring.

This Is A Time For Action Not For War, But For Mobilization Of Every Bit Of Peace Machinery.

How Can We Be Such Fools As To Go On Senselessly Taking Human Life In This Way? Why The Women In Every Nation Do Not Rise Up And Refuse To Bring Children Into A World Of This Kind Is Beyond My Understanding.

So I Took An Interest In Politics, But I Don't Know Whether I Enjoyed It! It Was A Wife's Duty To Be Interested In Whatever Interested Her Husband, Whether It Was Politics, Books, Or A Particular Dish For Dinner.

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.

Beautiful Young People Are Accidents Of Nature, But Beautiful Old People Are Works Of Art.

We Are Given In Our Newspapers And On Tv And Radio Exactly What We, The Public, Insist On Having, And This Very Frequently Is Mediocre Information And Mediocre Entertainment.

We Can No Longer Oversimplify. We Can No Longer Build Lazy And False Stereotypes: Americans Are Like This, Russians Are Like That, A Jew Behaves In Such A Way, A Negro Thinks In A Different Way. The Lazy Generalities - 'you Know How Women Are ... Isn't That Just Like A Man?' The World Cannot Be Understood From A Single Point Of View.

It Has Been A Long Fight To Put The Control Of Our Economic System In The Hands Of The Government.

Life Must Be Lived And Curiosity Kept Alive. One Must Never, For Whatever Reason, Turn His Back On Life.

Practically Nothing We Do Ever Stands By Itself. If It Is Good, It Will Serve Some Good Purpose In The Future. If It Is Evil, It May Haunt Us And Handicap Our Efforts In Unimagined Ways.

You Wouldn't Worry So Much About What Others Think Of You If You Realized How Seldom They Do.

One's Philosophy Is Not Best Expressed In Words; It Is Expressed In The Choices One Makes. In Stopping To Think Through The Meaning Of What I Have Learned, There Is Much That I Believe Intensely, Much I Am Unsure Of. In The Long Run, We Shape Our Lives And We Shape Ourselves. The Process Never Ends Until We Die. And, The Choices We Make Are Ultimately Our Own Responsibility.

To Be Mature You Have To Realize What You Value Most... Not To Arrive At A Clear Understanding Of One's Own Values Is A Tragic Waste. You Have Missed The Whole Point Of What Life Is For.

The Bible Illustrated By Dore Occupied Many Of My Hours - And I Think Probably Gave Me Many Nightmares.

Once Your Children Are Grown Up And Have Children Of Their Own, The Problems Are Theirs And The Less The Older Generation Interferes The Better.

The Morality Of A [political] Party Must Grow Out Of The Conscience And The Participation Of The Voters.

It's Your Life - But Only If You Make It So. The Standards By Which You Live Must Be Your Own Standards, Your Own Values, Your Own Convictions In Regard To What Is Right And Wrong, What Is True And False, What Is Important And What Is Trivial. When You Adopt The Standards And The Values Of Someone Else . . . You Surrender Your Own Integrity. You Become, To The Extent Of Your Surrender, Less Of A Human Being.

Every Day Do Something That Frightens You.

Obedience May Have Its Uses, But It Is No Substitute For Willing, Uncoerced Co-operation.

There Never Has Been Security. No Man Has Ever Known What He Would Meet Around The Next Corner; If Life Were Predictable It Would Cease To Be Life, And Be Without Flavor.

I'm Enormously Interested In Freedom And Retaining The Right To Have Whatever Economy We Want And To Shape It As We Want And A Having Sufficient Democracy So That The People Actually Hold Their Government In Their Own Hands.

Justice Cannot Be For One Side Alone, But Must Be For Both.

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.

Since Everybody Is An Individual, Nobody Can Be You. You Are Unique. No One Can Tell You How To Use Your Time. It Is Yours. Your Life Is Your Own. You Mold It. You Make It.

On The Whole Our Armed Services Have Been Doing Pretty Well In The Way Of Keeping Us Defended, But I Hope Our State Department Will Remember That It Is Really The Department Of Achieving Peace.

All Wars Eventually Act As Boomerangs And The Victor Suffers As Much As The Vanquished.

I Carried It (a Revolver) Religiously And During The Summer I Asked A Friend, A Man Who Had Been One Of Franklin's Bodyguards In New York State, To Give Me Some Practice In Target Shooting So That If The Need Arose I Would Know How To Use The Gun.

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.

I Wonder If One Of The Penalties Of Growing Older Is That You Become More And More Conscious That Nothing Is Very Permanent.

For All Of Us, As We Grow Older, Perhaps The Most Important Thing Is To Keep Alive Our Love Of Others And To Believe That Our Love And Interest Are As Vitally Necessary To Them As To Us. This Is What Makes Us Keep On Growing And Refills The Fountains Of Energy.

It Seems To Me Of Great Importance To Teach Children Respect For Life. Towards This End, Experiments On Living Animals In Classrooms Should Be Stopped. To Encourage Cruelty In The Name Of Science Can Only Destroy The Finer Emotions Of Affection And Sympathy, And Breed An Unfeeling Callousness In The Young Towards Suffering In All Living Creatures.

Staying Aloof Is Not A Solution, It Is A Cowardly Evasion.

It Is Not More Vacation We Need — It Is More Vocation.

You Achieve Strength, Braveness And Confidence By Each Experience In Which You Really Halt To Search Dread During The Deal With

True Patriotism Springs From A Belief In The Dignity Of The Individual, Freedom And Equality Not Only For Americans But For All People On Earth, Universal Brotherhood And Good Will, And A Constant And Earnest Striving Toward The Principles And Ideals On Which This Country Was Founded.

You Gain Strength, Courage, And Confidence By Doing The Thing Which You Think You Cannot Do.

The World Conspires To Help Those Who Are In Love With The Beauty Of Their Dreams.

Poverty Is An Expensive Luxury. We Cannot Afford It.

It Is Always Easier To Do Nothing Than To Try A New Line Of Action.

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.

Each Time You Learn Something New You Must Readjust The Whole Framework Of Your Knowledge

Do One Thing Everyday That Scares You. Those Small Things That Make Us Uncomfortable Help Us Build Courage To Do The Work We Do.

Franklin's Illness...gave Him Strength And Courage He Had Not Had Before. He Had To Think Out The Fundamentals Of Living And Learn The Greatest Of All Lessons - Infinite Patience And Never Ending Persistence.

Life Is What You Make It. Always Has Been, Always Will Be.

It Is A Rather Curious Thing To Have To Divide One's Life Into Personal And Official Compartments And Temporarily Put The Personal Side Into Its Hidden Compartment To Be Taken Out Again When One's Official Duties Are At An End.

Happiness Is Not A Goal, It Is A By-product. Paradoxically, The One Sure Way Not To Be Happy Is Deliberately To Map Out A Way Of Life In Which One Would Please Oneself Completely And Exclusively.

We Mast Show By Our Behavior That We Believe In Equality And Justice And That Our Religion Teaches Faith And Love And Charity To Our Fellow Men. Here Is Where Each Of Us Has A Job To Do That Must Be Done At Home, Because We Can Lose The Battle On The Soil Of The United States Just As Surely As We Can Lose It In Any One Of The Countries Of The World.

Manipulate The Situation To Create The Reality Of Your Desire

Caring Comes From Being Able To Put Yourself In The Position Of The Other Person.

It Is Always Disagreeable To Take Stands. It Is Always Easier To Compromise, Always Easier To Let Things Go. To Many Women, And I Am One Of Them, It Is Extraordinarily Difficult To Care About Anything Enough To Cause Disagreement Or Unpleasant Feelings, But I Have Come To The Conclusion That This Must Be Done For A Time Until We Can Prove Our Strength And Demand Respect For Our Wishes. We Cannot Even Be Of Real Service In The Coming Campaign And Speak As A United Body Of Women Unless We Have The Respect Of Men And Show That When We Express A Wish, We Are Willing To Stand By It.

Someone Once Asked Me What I Regarded As The Three Most Important Requirements For Happiness. My Answer Was: A Feeling That You Have Been Honest With Yourself And Those Around You; A Feeling That You Have Done The Best You Could Both In Your Personal Life And In Your Work; And The Ability To Love Others.

The War For Freedom Will Never Really Be Won Because The Price Of Freedom Is Constant Vigilance Over Ourselves And Over Our Government.

Libertarian Party

Think As Little As Possible About Yourself And As Much As Possible About Other People.

The Labor Movement Has A Great Role To Play In Our Country Today.

Spiritual Leadership Should Remain Spiritual Leadership And The Temporal Power Should Not Become Too Important In Any Church.

A Guest Is Really Good Or Bad Because Of The Host Or Hostess Who Makes Being A Guest An Easy Or A Difficult Task.

If Many Of Our Young People Have Lost The Excitement Of The Early Settlers, Who Had A Country To Explore And Develop, It Is Because No One Remembers To Tell Them That The World Has Never Been So Challenging, So Exciting... Perhaps The Older Generation Is Often To Blame With Its Cautious Warning: “take A Job That Will Give You Security, Not Adventure.” But I Say To The Young: “do Not Stop Thinking Of Life As An Adventure. You Have No Security Unless You Can Live Bravely, Excitingly, And Imaginatively; Unless You Can Choose A Challenge Instead Of A Competence.

A Society In Which There Is Widespread Economic Insecurity Can Turn Freedom Into A Barren And Vapid Right For Millions Of People.

I Think It Is Impossible For One Human Being Really To Know Another Without First Knowing And Being At Peace With Himself.

You [future First Ladies] Will Feel That You Are No Longer Clothing Yourself, You Are Dressing A Public Monument.

Keep Us At Tasks Too Hard For Us That We May Be Driven To Thee For Strength.

Sometimes It Is Extremely Good For You To Forget That There Is Anything In The World Which Needs To Be Done, And To Do Some Particular Thing That You Want To Do. Every Human Being Needs A Certain Amount Of Time In Which He Can Be Peaceful.

Mozart, Who Was Buried In A Pauper’s Grave, Was One Of The Greatest Successes We Know Of, A Man Who In His Early Thirties Had Poured Out His Inexhaustible Gift Of Music, Leaving The World Richer Because He Had Passed That Way. To Leave The World Richer—that Is The Ultimate Success.

To Tell The People In The West Not To Use Their Cars Means That These People May Never See Another Soul For Weeks And Weeks Nor Have A Way Of Getting A Sick Person To A Doctor.

I Used To Tell My Husband That, If He Could Make Me 'understand' Something, It Would Be Clear To All The Other People In The Country.

Change Means The Unknown.

I Do Not Want Church Groups Controlling The Schools Of Our Country. They Must Remain Free.

One Should Always Sleep In All Of One's Guest Beds, To Make Sure That They Are Comfortable.

I Learned Then That Practically No One In The World Is Entirely Bad Or Entirely Good, And That Motives Are Often More Important Than Actions.

The Economy Of Communism Is An Economy Which Grows In An Atmosphere Of Misery And Want.

You Gain Strength, Courage, And Confidence By Every Experience In Which You Really Stop To Look Fear In The Face.... The Danger Lies In Refusing To Face The Fear, In Not Daring To Come To Grips With It. If You Fail Anywhere Along The Line It Will Take Away Your Confidence. You Must Make Yourself Succeed Every Time. You Must Do The Thing You Think You Cannot Do.

We Need Our Radicals.

What You Don't Do Can Be A Destructive Force.

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.

The Motivating Force Of The Theory Of A Democratic Way Of Life Is Still A Belief That As Individuals We Live Cooperatively, And, To The Best Of Our Ability, Serve The Community In Which We Live.

I Think That In Great Crises You Need To Have Deep Rooted Convictions And I Have A Feeling From The Kind Of Campaigns That I Have Watched Mr. Nixon In In The Past That His Convictions Are Not Very Strong.

I Found That Almost Everyone Had Something Interesting To Contribute To My Education.

Something Interesting

I Think The Thing We Must Look For Actually Is A Growth In Our People And In Whoever Comes In A Quality Of Courage To Tell Our People Just What World Conditions Are.

Character Building Begins In Our Infancy And Continues Until Death.

How Hard It Is To Project Oneself Into The Future. We Are Always Prone To Think Of The Conditions Which Are With Us Today As Being Permanent Conditions.

If Everything Was In Your Favor, If You Did Not Have To Surmount Any Great Mountains, Then You Have Nothing To Be Proud Of. But If You Feel That You Have Special Difficulties, Then You Must Indeed Be Proud Of Your Achievement.

I Have Learned Long Ago To Possess My Soul In Patience And Accept The Inevitable.

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.

Courage Is Exhilarating.

Life Is Meant To Be Lived.

The Film Industry Is A Great Industry, With Infinite Possibilities For Good And Bad. Its Primary Purpose Is To Entertain People. On The Side, It Can Do Many Other Things. It Can Popularize Certain Ideals, It Can Make Education Palatable. But In The Long Run, The Judge Who Decides Whether What It Does Is Good Or Bad Is The Man Or Woman Who Attends The Movies.

If Someone Betrays You Once, It’s Their Fault; If They Betray You Twice, It’s Your Fault.

It Is Not That You Set The Individual Apart From Society But That You Recognize In Any Society That The Individual Must Have Rights That Are Guarded.

I Think We Ought To Impress On Both Our Girls And Boys That Successful Marriages Require Just As Much Work, Just As Much Intelligence And Just As Much Unselfish Devotion, As They Give To Any Position They Undertake To Fill On A Paid Basis.

The Future Belongs To Those Who Believe In The Beauty Of Their Dreams.

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.

We Gain Strength, And Courage, And Confidence By Each Experience In Which We Really Stop To Look Fear In The Face... We Must Do That Which We Think We Cannot.

Friendship With Ones Self Is All Important, Because Without It One Cannot Be Friends With Anyone Else In The World.

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.

We Face The Future Fortified With The Lessons We Have Learned From The Past. It Is Today That We Must Create The World Of The Future.

Long Ago, I Made Up My Mind That, When Things Were Said Involving Only Me, I Would Pay No Attention To Them, Except When Valid Criticism Was Carried By Which I Could Profit.

I Believe In Active Citizenship, For Men And Women Equally, As A Simple Matter Of Right And Justice. I Believe We Will Have Better Government In All Of Our Countries When Men And Women Discuss Public Issues Together And Make Their Decisions On The Basis Of Their Different Areas Of Experience And Their Common Concern For The Welfare Of Their Families And Their World.

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.

No One Can Move Without Some Leadership.

Trending Author

Marianne Faithfull

Anthony Anderson

Charles C. Mann

Michel Hazanavicius

Category