Eleanor Roosevelt Quotes About Values

Quotes about: Values

• 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.

  Eleanor Roosevelt

  Integrity, Surrender, Standards

  Eleanor Roosevelt (1960). “You Learn by Living”, p.111, Westminster John Knox Press

• 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

• To be mature you have to realize what you value most... Not to arrive at a clear understanding of one's own values is a tragic waste. You have missed the whole point of what life is for.

  Eleanor Roosevelt

  Understanding, Waste, Realizing

• 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.

  Eleanor Roosevelt

  Integrity, Important, True And False

  Eleanor Roosevelt (1960). “You Learn by Living”, p.111, Westminster John Knox Press

• It is impossible to be a cynic if you live a good deal with young people. Fundamentally, every young person has a feeling that the future is going to hold something of value.

  Eleanor Roosevelt

  People, Feelings, Impossible

• I believe that all that we go through here must have some value.

  Eleanor Roosevelt

  Believe, Belief, I Believe

• About the only value the story of my life may have is to show that one can, even without any particular gifts, overcome obstacles that seem insurmountable if one is willing to face the fact that they must be overcome.

  Eleanor Roosevelt

  Overcoming, Stories, May

  Eleanor Roosevelt (1961). “Autobiography”

• No writing has any real value which is not the expression of genuine thought and feeling.

  Eleanor Roosevelt

  Real, Writing, Expression

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

• 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

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