Eleanor Roosevelt

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.

Eleanor Roosevelt

I’m so glad I never feel important, it does complicate life!

Eleanor Roosevelt

I’m sure that all the drivers and motorcycle police had once been racing drivers and were eager to get back to that profession.

Eleanor Roosevelt

If anyone were to ask me what I want out of life I would say – the opportunity for doing something useful, for in no other way, I am convinced, can true happiness be attained.

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 people only realized what a war goes on in a child’s mind and heart in a situation of this kind, I think they would try to explain more than they do,

Eleanor Roosevelt

If quitting smoking seems hard right now, it is exactly what you should start doing.

Eleanor Roosevelt

If the use of leisure time is confined to looking at TV for a few extra hours every day, we will deteriorate as a people.

Eleanor Roosevelt

If we do not pay for children in good schools, then we are going to pay for them in prisons and mental hospitals.

Eleanor Roosevelt

If we fail to meet our problems here, no one else in the world will do so. If we fail, the heart goes out of progressives throughout the world.

Eleanor Roosevelt