Eleanor Roosevelt Quotes About Work

Quotes about: Work

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

  Eleanor Roosevelt

  Inspirational, Life, Happiness

  Quoted in Joseph P. Lash, 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.

  Eleanor Roosevelt

  Life, Motivational, Running

  Eleanor Roosevelt (1960). “You Learn by Living”, p.12, Westminster John Knox Press

• What one has to do usually can be done.

  Eleanor Roosevelt

  Encouraging, Work, Political

  Eleanor Roosevelt (1961). “Autobiography”

• My experience has been that work is almost the best way to pull oneself out of the depths.

  Eleanor Roosevelt

  Strong Women, Work, Way

• Have convictions. Be friendly. Stick to your beliefs as they stick to theirs. Work as hard as they do.

  Eleanor Roosevelt

  Work, Friendly, Sticks

  Eleanor Roosevelt (2007). “The Eleanor Roosevelt Papers: The human rights years, 1945-1948”, Charles Scribner's Sons

• I never thought of achievement. I just did what came along for me to do - the thing that gave me the most pleasure.

  Eleanor Roosevelt

  Work, Achievement, Pleasure

• If the use of leisure time is confined to looking at TV for a few extra hours every day, we will deteriorate as a people.

  Eleanor Roosevelt

  Work, People, Use

  Eleanor Roosevelt, David Emblidge (2009). “My Day: The Best of Eleanor Roosevelt's Acclaimed Newspaper Columns, 1936-1962”, p.265, Da Capo Press

• As life developed, I faced each problem as it came along. As my activities and work broadened and reached out, I never tried to shirk. I tried never to evade an issue. When I found I had something to do--I just did it.

  Eleanor Roosevelt

  Courage, Work, Issues

  Joseph P. Lash, Eleanor Roosevelt (1982). “Love, Eleanor: Eleanor Roosevelt and Her Friends”, Doubleday Books

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