Eleanor Roosevelt Quotes About Decisions

Quotes about: Decisions

• Somewhere along the line of development we discover what we really are and then make our real decision for which we are responsible. Make that decision primarily for yourself because you can never really live anyone else's lie, not even your child's. The influence you exert is through your own life and what you become yourself.

  Eleanor Roosevelt

  Life, Children, Real

• Too often the great decisions are originated and given form in bodies made up wholly of men, or so completely dominated by them that whatever of special value women have to offer is shunted aside without expression.

  Eleanor Roosevelt

  Power, Men, Expression

  Eleanor Roosevelt, Allida Mae Black (2013). “Courage in a Dangerous World: The Political Writings of Eleanor Roosevelt”, p.181, Columbia University Press

• I think that somehow, we learn who we really are and then live with that decision.

  Eleanor Roosevelt

  Life, Self Esteem, Thinking

  "Peter's Quotations : Ideas for Our Time" by Laurence J. Peter, (p. 5), 1972.

• I am convinced that every effort must be made in childhood to teach the young to use their own minds. For one thing is sure: If they don't make up their minds, someone will do it for them.

  Eleanor Roosevelt

  Effort, Childhood, Decision

  Eleanor Roosevelt (1960). “You learn by living”, HarperCollins Publishers

• 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.

  Eleanor Roosevelt

  Organization, Decision, World

• I believe in active citizenship, for men and women equally, as a simple matter of right and justice. I believe we will have better government in all of our countries when men and women discuss public issues together and make their decisions on the basis of their different areas of experience and their common concern for the welfare of their families and their world.

  Eleanor Roosevelt

  Country, Believe, Men

  Eleanor Roosevelt (1995). “What I Hope to Leave Behind: The Essential Essays of Eleanor Roosevelt”, Carlson Pub

• A woman has, first of all, her duties in their own home, and there are many women particularly when they're young, who can do an active job in their community like being a mayor, but who cannot go to Washington or Albany or wherever the capital of the state is. There are others who can, can leave home, whose children are older and so forth. I think it all is a personal decision.

  Eleanor Roosevelt

  Jobs, Children, Home

  Source: archives.nbclearn.com

• The things you refuse to meet today always come back at you later on, usually under circumstances which make the decision twice as difficult as it originally was.

  Eleanor Roosevelt

  Decision, Political, Apathy

  Eleanor Roosevelt, David Emblidge (1989). “Eleanor Roosevelt's My Day: Her Acclaimed Columns, 1936-1945”

• You seem to think that everyone can save money if they have the character to do it. As a matter of fact, there are innumerable people who have a wide choice between saving and giving their children the best possible opportunities. The decision is usually in favor of the children.

  Eleanor Roosevelt

  Children, Character, Opportunity

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