Eleanor Roosevelt

One of the first things we must get rid of is the idea that democracy is tantamount to capitalism.

Eleanor Roosevelt

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

One’s philosophy is not best expressed in words; it is expressed in the choices one makes. In the long run, we shape our lives, and we shape ourselves.

Eleanor Roosevelt

Only a man’s character is the real criterion of worth.

Eleanor Roosevelt

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.

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

She never told me anything, but she allowed me to read anything I wanted in the library, which held a great many books.

Eleanor Roosevelt

Success in marriage depends on being able, when you get over being in love, to really love.

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

Talking too much is a far greater social fault than talking too little.

Eleanor Roosevelt