Eleanor Roosevelt Quotes

Touching your cap to the Squire may be damn bad for the Squire, but it's damn good for you.

For years it never occurred to me to question the judgment of those in charge at the studio.

We submit to the majority because we have to. But we are not compelled to call our attitude of subjection a posture of respect.

I don't see success as the goal. Obedience is the goal.

Being bridled, or yielding obediently to restraint, is necessary for our personal growth and progression.

I am not bound to please thee with my answer.

It is one thing to praise discipline, and another to submit to it.

He learned too much and too early that victory goes to the discreet, that one does not speak one's opinion, that ideally one does not even develop one's opinion.

Conformity--the natural instinct to passively yield to that vague something recognized as authority.

I'm a good boy! I do what I'm told; I'm on time. I'm always where I'm supposed to be when I'm supposed to be there. I don't mess around with other people's time and schedule. And I eat my vegetables. And my meats. And my carbs. And my dairy.

I'm not going to kiss any rings from anybody.

I'm a businessman, a company man, but I'm no 'yes' man.

I just do what I'm asked, really.

The only requirement of a fan or a patient is the surrender to authority.

My whole life, I've been told to 'wait my turn' and 'know my place.'

The way to rise is to obey and please.

Fearing servility, people become servile.

One should be wary of talking on end about such subjects as learning, morality or folklore in front of elders or people of rank. It is disagreeable to listen to.

You will have no sensation of a leash around your neck if you sit by the peg. It is only when you stray that you feel the restraining tug.

I find it awfully difficult to determine if the habit of talking about oneself at length runs contrary to the basic rules of propriety, or if instead the man exempt from this vice is rare.

I was always on time, I did my work to exact specifications, I spoke when spoken to.

I'm such a goody two-shoes, I don't even taste the fruit at the grocery store. Like oh, are these grapes good? I can't even do that. I'm that much of a rule-follower.

Respectability is the dickey on the bosom of civilization.

The superior man does what is proper to the station in which he is; he does not desire to go beyond this.

Dancing is, in itself, a very trifling and silly thing: but it is one of those established follies to which people of sense are sometimes obliged to conform; and then they should be able to do it well. And though I would not have you a dancer, yet, when you do dance, I would have you dance well, as I would have you do everything you do well.