Eleanor Roosevelt Quotations | Page 5

I carried it (a revolver) religiously and during the summer I asked a friend, a man who had been one of Franklin's bodyguards in New York State, to give me some practice in target shooting so that if the need arose I would know how to use the gun.

Friendship with ones self is all important, because without it one cannot be friends with anyone else in the world.

When you cease to make a contribution, you begin to die.

The future is literally in our hands to mold as we like. But we cannot wait until tomorrow. Tomorrow is now.

All of life is a constant education.

The battle for the individual rights of women is one of long standing and none of us should countenance anything which undermines it.

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

When will our consciences grow so tender that we will act to prevent human misery rather than avenge it?

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.

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.