Inspirational Quotations by Franklin Roosevelt

  • The only thing we have to fear is fear itself.
    From Issue 10
  • Happiness...
    it lies in the joy of achievement,
    in the thrill of creative effort.
    From Issue 85
  • We have always held hope, the belief, the conviction that
    there is a better life, a better world, beyond the horizon.
    From Issue 229
  • It is common sense to take a method and try it.
    If it fails, admit it frankly and try another.
    But above all, try something.
    From Issue 241
  • Human kindness has never weakened the stamina or softened the fiber of a free people. A nation does not have to be cruel to be tough.
    From Issue 361
  • We can't always build the future for our youth, but we can build our youth for the future.
    From Issue 361
  • If you treat people right they will treat you right -- ninety percent of the time.
    From Issue 361
  • Peace, like charity, begins at home.
    From Issue 361
  • Freedom to learn is the first necessity of guaranteeing that man himself shall be self-reliant enough to be free.
    From Issue 361
  • The only limit to our realization of tomorrow will be our doubts of today. Let us move forward with strong and active faith.
    From Issue 361
  • Confidence... thrives on honesty, on honor, on the sacredness of obligations, on faithful protection and on unselfish performance. Without them it cannot live.
    From Issue 361
  • Keep your eyes on the stars and your feet on the ground.
    From Issue 361
  • Men are not prisoners of fate, but prisoners of their own minds.
    From Issue 361
  • The test of our progress is not whether we add more to the abundance of those who have much; it is whether we provide enough for those who have too little.
    From Issue 361
  • Those who have long enjoyed such privileges as we enjoy, forget in time that men have died to win them.
    From Issue 361
  • Remember you are just an extra in everyone else's play.
    From Issue 361
  • There is no indispensable man.
    From Issue 361
  • Do what you feel in your heart to be right -- for you'll be criticized anyway.
    From Issue 361
  • Happiness lies not in the mere possession of money; it lies in the joy of achievement, in the thrill of creative effort.
    From Issue 361
  • We have always known that heedless self-interest was bad morals; we know now that it is bad economics.
    From Issue 361

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