“The basis of world peace is the teaching which runs through almost all the great religions of the world. “Love thy neighbor as thyself.” Christ, some of the other great Jewish teachers, Buddha, all preached it. Their followers forgot it. What is the trouble between capital and labor, what is the trouble in many of our communities, but rather a universal forgetting that this teaching is one of our first obligations.”

Eleanor Roosevelt
Submitted by Quonation |Category: Religion
Vote Up
0
Vote Down
Favorite
“… any citizen should be willing to give all that he has to give his country in work or sacrifice in times of crisis.”

Eleanor Roosevelt
Submitted by Quonation |Category: War
Vote Up
0
Vote Down
Favorite
“I can not believe that war is the best solution. No one won the last war, and no one will win the next war.”

Eleanor Roosevelt
Submitted by Quonation |Category: War
Vote Up
0
Vote Down
Favorite
“With the new day comes new strength and new thoughts.”

Eleanor Roosevelt
Submitted by Quonation |Category: Motivational
Vote Up
0
Vote Down
Favorite
“Anyone who knows history, particularly the history of Europe, will, I think, recognize that the domination of education or of government by any one particular religious faith is never a happy arrangement for the people.”

Eleanor Roosevelt
Submitted by Quonation |Category: Education
Vote Up
0
Vote Down
Favorite
“The giving of love is an education in itself.”

Eleanor Roosevelt
Submitted by Quonation |Category: Love
Vote Up
0
Vote Down
Favorite
“We need not fear any isms if our democracy is achieving the ends for which it was established …”

Eleanor Roosevelt
Submitted by Quonation |Category: Fear
Vote Up
0
Vote Down
Favorite
“Do what you feel in your heart to be right. You’ll be criticized anyway.”

Eleanor Roosevelt
Submitted by Quonation |Category: Criticism
Vote Up
0
Vote Down
Favorite
“You always admire what you really don’t understand.”

Eleanor Roosevelt
Submitted by Quonation |Category: General
Vote Up
0
Vote Down
Favorite
“When you cease to make a contribution, you begin to die.”

Eleanor Roosevelt
Submitted by Quonation |Category: Work
Vote Up
0
Vote Down
Favorite
“Understanding is a two-way street.”

Eleanor Roosevelt
Submitted by Quonation |Category: Understanding
Vote Up
0
Vote Down
Favorite
“It is not fair to ask of others what you are not willing to do yourself.”

Eleanor Roosevelt
Submitted by Quonation |Category: Character
Vote Up
0
Vote Down
Favorite
“I think somehow we learn who we really are and then we live with that decision.”

Eleanor Roosevelt
Submitted by Quonation |Category: General
Vote Up
0
Vote Down
Favorite
“Never allow a person to tell you no who doesn’t have the power to say yes.”

Eleanor Roosevelt
Submitted by Quonation |Category: General
Vote Up
0
Vote Down
Favorite
“It takes as much energy to wish as it does to plan.”

Eleanor Roosevelt
Submitted by Quonation |Category: Planning
Vote Up
0
Vote Down
Favorite
“I have spent many years of my life in opposition and I like the role.”

Eleanor Roosevelt
Submitted by Quonation |Category: General
Vote Up
0
Vote Down
Favorite
“What one has to do usually can be done.”

Eleanor Roosevelt
Submitted by Quonation |Category: Necessity
Vote Up
0
Vote Down
Favorite
“It is equality of monotony which makes the strength of the British Isles.”

Eleanor Roosevelt
Submitted by Quonation |Category: General
Vote Up
0
Vote Down
Favorite
“If life were predictable it would cease to be life, and be without flavor.”

Eleanor Roosevelt
Submitted by Quonation |Category: Life
Vote Up
0
Vote Down
Favorite
“Nobody can make you feel inferior without your consent.”

Eleanor Roosevelt
Submitted by Quonation |Category: General