Eleanor Roosevelt World Quotations

Nothing we learn in this world is ever wasted.

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.

All the water in the world cannot drown you unless it gets inside of you.

Each generation supposes that the world was simpler for the one before it.

It is today that we create the world of the future.

Our obligation to the world is, primarily, our obligation to our own future. Obviously, we cannot develop beyond a certain point unless other nations develop, too.

What we apparently have failed to grasp is that, in this new world in which we live, the collective hunger of great masses of people, wherever they may be, will affect our long-range welfare, just as though they were our own people.

We will never have peace without friendship around the world.

The mobilization of world opinion and methods of negotiation should be developed and used by every nation in order to strengthen the United Nations.

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.

Some people are going to leave a mark on this world, while others will leave a stain.

After the discovery in 1918 of love letters revealing that Franklin was involved with Lucy Mercer: The bottom dropped out of my own particular world, I faced myself, my surroundings, my world, honestly for the first time.

A trait no other nation seems to possess in quite the same degree as we do namely, a feeling of almost childish injury and resentment unless the world as a whole recognizes how innocent we are of anything but the most generous and harmless intentions

The world conspires to help those who are in love with the beauty of their dreams.

Nobody else is going to do the things which are yours to be done in the world.

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.

Most of the work that's done in the world gets done by people who weren't feeling all that well at the time that they did it.

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.

I have always seen life personally; my interest or sympathy or indignation is not aroused by an abstract cause but by the plight of a single person...Out of my response to an individual develops an awareness of a problem to the community, then to the country, then to the world.

Human resources are the most valuable assets the world has. They are all needed desperately.

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.

It is very difficult to have a free, fair and honest press anywhere in the world. In the first place, as a rule, papers are largely supported by advertising, and that immediately gives the advertisers a certain hold over the medium they use.

What we must learn to do is to create unbreakable bonds between the sciences and the humanities. We cannot procrastinate. The world of the future is in our making. Tomorrow is now.

Success must include two things: the development of an individual to his utmost potentiality and a contribution of some kind to one's world.

We must be willing to learn the lesson that cooperation may imply compromise, but if it brings a world advance it is a gain for each individual nation.

Actors are one family over the entire world.

To leave the world richer—that is the ultimate success.