Eleanor Roosevelt famous quotes
Last updated: Sep 5, 2024
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The Marines I have seen around the world have the cleanest bodies, the filthiest minds, the highest morale, and the lowest morals of any group of animals I have ever seen. Thank God for the United States Marine Corps!
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The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams.
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People grow through experience if they meet life honestly and courageously. This is how character is built.
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Happiness is not a goal; it is a by-product.
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We will have to want peace, want it enough to pay for it, before it becomes an accepted rule.
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We gain strength, and courage, and confidence by each experience in which we really stop to look fear in the face... we must do that which we think we cannot.
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It takes as much energy to wish as it does to plan.
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Do what you feel in your heart to be right- for you'll be criticized anyway. You'll be damned if you do, and damned if you don't.
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The purpose of life is to live it, to taste experience to the utmost, to reach out eagerly and without fear for newer and richer experience.
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No matter how plain a woman may be, if truth and honesty are written across her face, she will be beautiful.
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Do one thing every day that scares you.
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Courage is more exhilarating than fear, and in the long run, it is easier.
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Great minds discuss ideas; average minds discuss events; small minds discuss people.
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No one can make you feel inferior without your consent.
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It isn't enough to talk about peace. One must believe in it. And it isn't enough to believe in it. One must work at it.
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If you lose money you lose much, If you lose friends you lose more, If you lose faith you lose all.
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When will our consciences grow so tender that we will act to prevent human misery rather than avenge it?
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A woman is like a tea bag - you can't tell how strong she is until you put her in hot water.
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The word liberal comes from the word free. We must cherish and honor the word free or it will cease to apply to us.
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When you adopt the standards and the values of someone else … you surrender your own integrity. You become, to the extent of your surrender, less of a human being.
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The giving of love is an education in itself.
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Never allow a person to tell you no who doesn't have the power to say yes.
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If you believe that a nation is really better off which achieves for a comparative few, those who are capable of attaining it, high culture, ease, opportunity, and that these few from their enlightenment should give what they consider best to those less favored, then you naturally belong to the Republican Party. But if you believe that people must struggle slowly to the light for themselves, then it seems to me that you are a Democrat.
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Always be on time. Never try to make any personal engagements. Do as little talking as humanly possible. Never be disturbed by anything. Always do what you're told to do as quickly as possible. Remember to lean back in a parade, so that people can see your husband. Don't get too fat to ride three on a seat. Get out of the way as quickly as you're not needed.
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You wouldn't worry so much about what others think of you if you realized how seldom they do.
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I am who I am today because of the choices I made yesterday.
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You never know anyone until you marry them.
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The future is literally in our hands to mold as we like. But we cannot wait until tomorrow. Tomorrow is now.
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When you look fear in the face, you are able to say to yourself, 'I lived through this horror. I can take the next thing that comes along.'
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Someone once asked me what I regarded as the three most important requirements for happiness. My answer was: A feeling that you have been honest with yourself and those around you; a feeling that you have done the best you could both in your personal life and in your work; and the ability to love others.
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When you cease to make a contribution, you begin to die.
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Beautiful young people are accidents of nature, but beautiful old people are works of art.
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It takes courage to love, but pain through love is the purifying fire which those who love generously know. We all know people who are so much afraid of pain that they shut themselves up like clams in a shell and, giving out nothing, receive nothing and therefore shrink until life is a mere living death.
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True patriotism springs from a belief in the dignity of the individual, freedom and equality not only for Americans but for all people on earth, universal brotherhood and good will, and a constant and earnest striving toward the principles and ideals on which this country was founded.
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I think if the people of this country can be reached with the truth, their judgment will be in favor of the many, as against the privileged few
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We are afraid to care too much, for fear that the other person does not care at all.
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For our own success to be real, it must contribute to the success of others.
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You must do the things you think you cannot do.
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Sometimes I wonder if we shall ever grow up in our politics and say definite things which mean something, or whether we shall always go on using generalities to which everyone can subscribe, and which mean very little.
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The most important thing in any relationship is not what you get but what you give.... In any case, the giving of love is an education in itself.
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One thing life has taught me: if you are interested, you never have to look for new interests. They come to you. When you are genuinely interested in one thing, it will always lead to something else.
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A mature person is one who does not think only in absolutes, who is able to be objective even when deeply stirred emotionally, who has learned that there is both good and bad in all people and in all things, and who walks humbly and deals charitably with the circumstances of life, knowing that in this world no one is all knowing and therefore all of us need both love and charity.
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A little simplification would be the first step toward rational living, I think.
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Many people will walk in and out of your life, but only true friends will leave footprints in your heart
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Do not stop thinking of life as an adventure. You have no security unless you can live bravely, excitingly, imaginatively; unless you can choose a challenge instead of competence.
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Your ambition should be to get as much life out of living as you possibly can, as much enjoyment, as much interest, as much experience, as much understanding. Not simply be what is generally called a 'success.'
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It is better to light a candle than curse the darkness.
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You have to accept whatever comes and the only important thing is that you meet it with courage and with the best that you have to give.
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Enjoy every minute you have with those you love, my dear, for no one can take joy that is past away from you. It will be there in your heart to live on when the dark days come.
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A good leader inspires people to have confidence in the leader, a great leader inspires people to have confidence in themselves.
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I think that somehow, we learn who we really are and then live with that decision.
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If someone betrays you once, it’s their fault; if they betray you twice, it’s your fault.
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In all our contacts it is probably the sense of being really needed and wanted which gives us the greatest satisfaction and creates the most lasting bond.
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I believe that anyone can conquer fear by doing the things he fears to do, provided he keeps doing them until he gets a record of successful experience behind him.
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I believe that anyone can conquer fear by doing the things he fears to do ...
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What one has to do usually can be done.
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Only a man's character is the real criterion of worth.
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The battle for the individual rights of women is one of long standing and none of us should countenance anything which undermines it.
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Probably the happiest period in life most frequently is in middle age, when the eager passions of youth are cooled, and the infirmities of age not yet begun; as we see that the shadows, which are at morning and evening so large, almost entirely disappear at midday.
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Have convictions. Be friendly. Stick to your beliefs as they stick to theirs. Work as hard as they do.
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I have spent many years of my life in opposition, and I rather like the role.
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As for accomplishments, I just did what I had to do as things came along.
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With the new day comes new strength and new thoughts.
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It seems to me that it is the basic right of any human being to work.
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To leave the world richer—that is the ultimate success.
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Women are like tea bags.They do not know how strong they are until they get into hot water.
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Courage is more exhilarating than fear and in the long run it is easier. We do not have to become heroes over night. Just a step at a time, meeting each thing that comes up, seeing it is not as dreadful as it appeared, discovering we have the strength to stare it down.
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Education is the cornerstone of liberty.
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Life has got to be lived - that's all there is to it. At seventy, I would say the advantage is that you take life more calmly. You know that 'this, too, shall pass!'
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Nothing has ever been achieved by the person who says, ‘It can’t be done.’
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The basis of world peace is the teaching which runs through almost all the great religions of the world. Love thy neighbor as thyself.
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It seems to me of great importance to teach children respect for life.
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Surely, in the light of history, it is more intelligent to hope rather than to fear, to try rather than not to try. For one thing we know beyond all doubt: nothing has ever been achieved by the person who says: it can't be done.
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Happiness is not a goal, it is a by-product. Paradoxically, the one sure way not to be happy is deliberately to map out a way of life in which one would please oneself completely and exclusively.
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If we want a free and peaceful world, if we want to make the deserts bloom and man grow to greater dignity as a human being - we can do it.
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Love can often be misguided and do as much harm as good, but respect can do only good. It assumes that the other person's stature is as large as one's own, his rights as reasonable, his needs as important.
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Success must include two things: the development of an individual to his utmost potentiality and a contribution of some kind to one's world.
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The very next thing you need to be doing is the thing that terrifies you the most.
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Obedience may have its uses, but it is no substitute for willing, uncoerced co-operation.
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We all create the person we become by our choices as we go through life. In a real sense, by the time we are adults, we are the sum total of the choices we have made.
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Usefulness, whatever form it may take, is the price we should pay for the air we breathe and the food we eat and the privilege of being alive.
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No man is defeated without until he has first been defeated within.
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Do the things that interest you and do them with all your heart. Don't be concerned about whether people are watching you or criticizing you. The chances are that they aren't paying attention to you.
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I know that we will be the sufferers if we let great wrongs occur without exerting ourselves to correct them.
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This is not a time when women should be patient. We are in a war and we need to fight it with all our ability and every weapon possible. Women pilots, in this particular case, are a weapon waiting to be used.
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To handle yourself, use your head; to handle others, use your heart.
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Franklin's illness...gave him strength and courage he had not had before. He had to think out the fundamentals of living and learn the greatest of all lessons - infinite patience and never ending persistence.
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Tomorrow is a mystery. Today is a gift. That is why it is called the present.
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The basis of world peace is the teaching which runs through almost all the great religions of the world. "Love thy neighbor as thyself." Christ, some of the other great Jewish teachers, Buddha, all preached it. Their followers forgot it. What is the trouble between capital and labor, what is the trouble in many of our communities, but rather a universal forgetting that this teaching is one of our first obligations.
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When you have decided what you believe, what you feel must be done, have the courage to stand alone and be counted
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If human beings can be trained for cruelty and greed and a belief in power which comes through hate and fear and force, certainly we can train equally well for greatness and mercy and the power of love which comes because of the strength of the good qualities to be found in the soul of every human being.
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Think as little as possible about yourself and as much as possible about other people.
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You gain strength, courage, and confidence by every experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face.... The danger lies in refusing to face the fear, in not daring to come to grips with it. If you fail anywhere along the line it will take away your confidence. You must make yourself succeed every time. You must do the thing you think you cannot do.
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Women are like tea bags: put them in hot water and they get stronger.
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You gain strength, courage, and confidence by doing the thing which you think you cannot do.
-- Eleanor Roosevelt
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