Eleanor Roosevelt Quotes

I can bear pain myself, he said softly, but I couldna bear yours. That would take more strength than I have.

You can't just sit there and put everyone's lives ahead of yours and think that counts as love. You just can't. You have to do things.

I start every day by wanting more for others than I do for myself. I think that is how God works, and that is how I think we have to work.

Some day you will find out that there is far more happiness in another's happiness than in your own.

…I think,' concluded Anne, hitting on a very vital truth, 'that we always love best the people who need us.

Anything that forces you to act at the possible harm of your own existence is going to exact a cost. You have to then think about, "Can I pay this? What will this mean to me - to my relationships, to my family, to everybody? What is this going to take? How much of me is this going to take?"

My guys are morally weak, and they reach toward a tenuous knowledge of self-sacrifice, and sometimes it's too late. I find that moving. It's not a life I'd want to live. But, then, I'm not completely my books.

The idea of being strong for someone else having never entered their heads, I find myself in the position of having to console them. Since I'm the person going in to be slaughtered, this is somewhat annoying.

I think really that's just the basic Christian lesson that sometimes takes us years and years to understand - have equal concern for another human being as you have for yourself or perhaps even more concern for another human being than you have for yourself.

It's kind of a reflex for me to ignore my own wishes and think about other people first.

People who care for you inevitably become beautiful.

To get from people you had to give a piece of yourself, a real piece that mattered. Just being nice was not enough.

Art can compel people freely, gladly, and spontaneously to sacrifice themselves in the service of man.

Love burdens itself with the wants and woes and losses and even the wrongs of others.

My greatest strength is the love for my people, my greatest weakness is that I love them too much.

No one should have to pay for love in flesh or blood. (Acheron)

Love places someone else in the centre of your being and your own self is blurred.

Friendship is but another name for an alliance with the follies and the misfortunes of others. Our own share of miseries is sufficient: why enter then as volunteers into those of another?

I'd rather have happiness than money. People ask for it. Sometimes when I don't have it. I make other people's problems my problem because they want me to; they ask me to.

There is no sense to a sacrifice after you come to feel that it is a sacrifice.

I fight for other people better than I fight for myself.

One the one hand, the simple fact that there are children and that I do have an effect on them has been one of the most potent antidepressants that I've ever had. And on the other hand, there are moments when I feel imprisoned by the reality that I can no longer make my decisions just for myself, that I have to consider the interests of others.

Man, I wanna be there for everybody. I wanna make everybody happy, and I can't... That's why I stay in the studio.

I've always put everybody else's child first before my own health, before my own outfit, before my own time frame.

When we stop thinking about ourselves, when we stop being so devoted to 'me,' we can start behaving in a way that actually benefits others!