F. D. Roosevelt Quotes

There is not human being from whom we cannot learn something if we are interested enough to dig deep.

The most important word in the English language is hope.

The world conspires to help those who are in love with the beauty of their dreams.

There is a widespread understanding among the people of this nation, and probably among the people of the world, that there is no safety except through the prevention of war.

People can only make you inferior with your consent.

We have reached a point today where labor-saving devices are good only when they do not throw the worker out of his job.

Losing money is a big loss, losing friends is greater than the loss, also lost all faith is lost

We must do what we think we can't do.

I found that almost everyone had something interesting to contribute to my education.

To tell the people in the West not to use their cars means that these people may never see another soul for weeks and weeks nor have a way of getting a sick person to a doctor.

Because they have so little, children must rely on imagination rather than experience.

If you have to compromise, be sure to compromise up.

Marriage and the up-bringing of children in the home require as well-trained a mind and as well-disciplined a character as any other occupation that might be considered a career.

I could never say in the morning, "I have a headache and cannot do thus and so". Headache or no headache, thus and so had to be done.

We have come to accept bigger and bigger things as meaning greater and greater efficiency, more and more prosperity and more and more freedom. The two do not go together of necessity.

Men have to be reminded that women exist.

Everybody wants something.

Get out of the way as quickly as you're not needed.

I believe that it is a great mistake not to stand up for people, even when you differ with them, if you feel that they are trying to do things that will help our country.

I have a great objection to seeing anyone, particularly anyone whom I care about, lose his self-control.

The economy of communism is an economy which grows in an atmosphere of misery and want.

To most teenagers, life is a strange uncharted land filled with a mixture of new joys, intensely felt, and painful confusions for which they know no anodyne.

the greatest luxury I know is sitting up reading in bed.

I learned then that practically no one in the world is entirely bad or entirely good, and that motives are often more important than actions.

Manipulate the situation to create the reality of your desire

One of the best ways of enslaving a people is to keep them from education.

Human resources are the most valuable assets the world has. They are all needed desperately.

I think it is impossible for one human being really to know another without first knowing and being at peace with himself.

I'm sure that all the drivers and motorcycle police had once been racing drivers and were eager to get back to that profession.

A respect for the rights of other peoples to determine their forms of government and their economy will not weaken our democracy. It will inevitably strengthen it.

talking too much is a far greater social fault than talking too little.

The leisure class is one in which individuals have sufficient economic security and sufficient leisure to find opportunity for a variety of satisfactions in life.

The morality of a [political] party must grow out of the conscience and the participation of the voters.

Perhaps the basic thing which contributes to charm is the ability to forget oneself and be engrossed in other people.

In business courtesy and efficiency have a symbiotic relationship.

We do not move forward by curtailing people's liberty because we are afraid of what they may do or say.

We cannot exist as a little island of well-being in a world where two-thirds of the people go to bed hungry every night.

You need not be proud of me.... I'm only being active till you can be again--it isn't such a great desire on my part to serve theworld and I'll fall back into habits of sloth quite easily!

I do not think I will ever become deadened, because I live in other people's lives, I must admit there are times when it weighs medown because I can't do some of the things I want.

Franklin [D. Roosevelt] had a good way of simplifying things. He made people feel that he had a real understanding of things and they felt they had about the same understanding.

Somehow we must be able to show people that democracy is not about words, but action.

If quitting smoking seems hard right now, it is exactly what you should start doing

One has to live in Washington to know what a city of rumors it is.

it is harder to be philosophical when you are young.

I have often thought that less is expected of the president of a great corporation than of an American wife.

Mr. [Richard M.] Nixon never has anything but hindsight.

Our obligation to the world is, primarily, our obligation to our own future. Obviously, we cannot develop beyond a certain point unless other nations develop, too.

Perhaps in His wisdom the Almighty is trying to show us that a leader may chart the way, may point out the road to lasting peace, but that many leaders and many peoples must do the building.

There is in every country an antipathy to the foreigner.

Poverty is an expensive luxury. We cannot afford it.