Eleanor Roosevelt Quotes on People (14 Quotes)

Conservation of land and conservation of people frequently go hand in hand.

It is not so much what people do in this world as their reasons for doing it which really makes a difference. Sacrifices are not so important as the reasons for which you sacrifice, and no sacrifice is any good which remains ever present as such.

Beautiful young people are accidents of nature, But beautiful old people are works of art.

One of the best ways of enslaving a people is to keep them from education... The second way of enslaving a people is to suppress the sources of information, not only by burning books but by controlling all the other ways in which ideas are transmitted.

People grow through experience if they meet life honestly and courageously. This is how character is built.

I have felt that people were 'mean-mad' at times and wondered if life were not treating them so harshly that they were unable to retain any of the qualities which make people lovable and that make life worth living.

All human beings have failings, all human beings have needs and temptations and stresses. Men and women who live together through long years get to know one another's failings but they also come to know what is worthy of respect and admiration in those they live with and in themselves. If at the end one can say, This man used to the limit the powers that God granted him he was worthy of love and respect and of the sacrifices of many people, made in order that he might achieve what he deemed to be his task, then that life has been lived well and there are no regrets.

An economic policy which does not consider the well-being of all will not serve the purposes of peace and the growth of well-being among the people of all nations.

You can't move so fast that you try to change the mores faster than people can accept it. That doesn't mean you do nothing, but it means that you do the things that need to be done according to priority.

Will people ever be wise enough to refuse to follow bad leaders or to take away the freedom of other people.

Great minds discuss ideas; average minds discuss events; small minds discuss people.

Happiness may exist under all conditions, given the right kind of people and sufficient economic security for adequate food and shelter.

I think if the people of this country can be reached with the truth, their judgment will be in favor of the many, as against the privileged few

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.