Eleanor Roosevelt

I found that almost everyone had something interesting to contribute to my education.

Eleanor Roosevelt

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

Eleanor Roosevelt

I have learned long ago to possess my soul in patience and accept the inevitable.

Eleanor Roosevelt

I have never felt that anything really mattered but knowing that you stood for the things in which you believed and had done the very best you could.

Eleanor Roosevelt

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.

Eleanor Roosevelt

I think it is impossible for one human being really to know another without first knowing and being at peace with himself.

Eleanor Roosevelt

I think that somehow, we learn who we really are and then live with that decision.

Eleanor Roosevelt

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.

Eleanor Roosevelt

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.

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 should be curiosity.

Eleanor Roosevelt