F. D. Roosevelt Quotes

The mobilization of world opinion and methods of negotiation should be developed and used by every nation in order to strengthen the United Nations.

Great leaders inspire people to have confidence in themselves.

If you must compromise, compromise up.

It has been a long fight to put the control of our economic system in the hands of the government.

How hard it is to project oneself into the future. We are always prone to think of the conditions which are with us today as being permanent conditions.

practically nothing we do ever stands by itself. If it is good, it will serve some good purpose in the future. If it is evil, it may haunt us and handicap our efforts in unimagined ways.

The word communist, of course, has become a rallying cry for certain people here just as the word Jew was in Hitler's Germany, a way of arousing emotion without engendering thought.

Life is meant to be lived.

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

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.

One thing is for sure-none of the arts flourishes on censorship and repression. And by this time it should be evident that the American public is capable of doing its own censoring.

What we must learn to do is to create unbreakable bonds between the sciences and the humanities. We cannot procrastinate. The world of the future is in our making. Tomorrow is now.

The purpose of life afterall is to live it.

You achieve strength, braveness and confidence by each experience in which you really halt to search dread during the deal with

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

The motivating force of the theory of a Democratic way of life is still a belief that as individuals we live cooperatively, and, to the best of our ability, serve the community in which we live.

Life's not about expecting, hoping and wishing. It's about doing, being and becoming. It's about t Learn from the mistakes of others. You can't live long enough to make them all yourself.

it is always easier to do nothing than to try a new line of action.

Nothing alive can stand still, it goes forward or back. Life is interesting only as long as it is a process of growth; or, to put it another way, we can only grow as long as we are interested.

I wonder if one of the penalties of growing older is that you become more and more conscious that nothing is very permanent.

Whatever come we have to meet it.

Every age is an unknown country.

I would not be happy unless I had some regular work to do every day and I imagine that I will always feel that way no matter how old I am.

This living in a democracy is a problem, isn't it?

Long ago, I made up my mind that, when things were said involving only me, I would pay no attention to them, except when valid criticism was carried by which I could profit.

It is our freedom to progress that makes us all want to live and to go on.

An economic policy which does not consider the well-being of all will not serve the purposes of peace and the growth of well-being among the people of all nations.

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

For instance, it is certain that women do not want a woman for President. Nor would they have the slightest confidence in her ability to fulfill the functions of that office.

Every woman wants to be first to someone sometime in her life and that desire is the explanation for many strange things women do.

Success in marriage depends on being able, when you get over being in love, to really love....You never know anyone until you marry them.

Be confident, not certain

When you know to laugh and when to look upon things as too absurd to take seriously, the other person is ashamed to carry through even if he was serious about it.

...real prosperity can only come when everybody prospers.

I consider those are rich who are doing something they feel worthwhile and which they enjoy doing.

When all is said and done, and statesmen discuss the future of the world, the fact remains that people fight these wars.

Democracy cannot be static. Whatever is static is dead.

All big things in human history have been arrived at slowly and through many compromises.

This is a strange, little, complacent country [Switzerland], in many ways a USA in miniature but of course nearer the center of disturbance!

The Bible illustrated by Dore occupied many of my hours - and I think probably gave me many nightmares.

You [future first ladies] will feel that you are no longer clothing yourself, you are dressing a public monument.

When you are genuinely interested in one thing, it will always lead to something else.

We need our radicals.

More people are ruined by victory, I imagine, than be defeat.

Keep us at tasks too hard for us that we may be driven to Thee for strength.

No, I have never wanted to be a man. I have often wanted to be more effective as a woman, but I have never felt that trousers would do the trick!

You should always own a black dress because no one ever remembers a black dress.

The hard part of loving is that one has to learn so often to let go of those we love, so they can do things, so they can grow, so they can return to us with an even richer, deeper love.

The constant pressure to bring about conformity is a dangerous thing.

I have learned long ago to possess my soul in patience and accept the inevitable.