Eleanor Roosevelt Important Quotations

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

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.

The important thing is neither your nationality nor the religion you professed, but how your faith translated itself in your life.

The most important word in the English language is hope.

I have always felt that it was important that everyone who was a worker join a labor organization.

Spiritual leadership should remain spiritual leadership and the temporal power should not become too important in any church.

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.

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.

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.

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.