62 quotes
When will our consciences grow so tender that we will act to prevent human misery rather than avenge it?
It takes courage to love, but pain through love is the purifying fire which those who love generously know.
My Day (1935)
One's philosophy is not best expressed in words; it is expressed in the choices one makes.
You Learn by Living (1960)
This is a time for action — not for war, but for mobilization of every bit of peace machinery.
My Day (1935)
In the long run there is no more exhilarating experience than to determine one's position, state it bravely and then act boldly.
Tomorrow Is Now (1963)
One thing life has taught me: if you are interested, you never have to look for new interests. They come to you.
You Learn by Living (1960)
Life was meant to be lived, and curiosity must be kept alive. One must never, for whatever reason, turn his back on life.
There never has been security. No man has ever known what he would meet around the next corner; if life were predictable it would cease to be life, and be without flavor.
Tomorrow Is Now (1963)
Understanding is a two-way street.
Modern Quotations for Ready Reference (1947)
You always admire what you really don't understand.
Human resources are the most valuable assets the world has. They are all needed desperately.
Tomorrow Is Now (1963)
We must know what we think and speak out, even at the risk of unpopularity.
Tomorrow Is Now (1963)
The purpose of life...is to live it, to taste experience to the utmost, to reach out eagerly and without fear for newer and richer experience.
You Learn by Living (1960)
Where, after all, do universal human rights begin? In small places, close to home—so close and so small that they cannot be seen on any map of the world.
Friendship with oneself is all-important, because without it one cannot be friends with anyone else in the world.
The Beacon Book of Quotations by Women (1992)
I think, at a child's birth, if a mother could ask a fairy godmother to endow it with the most useful gift, that gift should be curiosity.
It isn't enough to talk about peace. One must believe in it. And it isn't enough to believe in it. One must work at it.
When you cease to make a contribution, you begin to die.
Eleanor : The Years Alone (1972)
In the long run, we shape our lives and we shape ourselves. The process never ends until we die. And, the choices we make are ultimately our own responsibility.
You Learn by Living (1960)
Do what you feel in your heart to be right — for you'll be criticized anyway. You'll be "damned if you do, and damned if you don't."