Eleanor Roosevelt Quotes
Eleanor Roosevelt Quotes
Happiness is not a goal...it's a by-product of a life well lived.
1659 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.
3832 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.
2046 No one can make you feel inferior without your consent.
1731 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.
2551 The reason that fiction is more interesting than any other form of literature, to those who really like to study people, is that in fiction the author can really tell the truth without humiliating himself.
1007 Life was meant to be lived, and curiosity must be kept alive. One must never, for whatever reason, turn his back on life.
1595 Never allow a person to tell you no who doesn't have the power to say
yes.
3545 Do what you feel in your heart to be right – for you’ll be criticized anyway.
4282 The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams.
3484 No matter how plain a woman may be, if truth and honesty are written across her face, she will be beautiful.
2763 Friendship with oneself is all important, because without it one cannot be friends with anyone else in the world.
1184 It's your life-but only if you make it so.
1031 Today is the oldest you've ever been, and the youngest you'll ever be again.
4040 All of life is a constant education.
3047 Do one thing every day that scares you.
2886 With the new day comes new strength and new thoughts.
1886 You gain strength, courage and confidence by every experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face. You are able to say to yourself, ‘I have lived through this horror. I can take the next thing that comes along.’ You must do the thing you think you cannot do.
1083 You gain strength, courage, and confidence by every experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face. You must do the thing which you think you cannot do.
4466 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.
3841 When will our consciences grow so tender that we are moved to prevent suffering, not just avenge it?
1357 No one won the last war, and no one will win the next war.
3839 Lest I keep my complacent way I must remember somewhere out there a person died for me today. As long as there must be war, I ask and I must answer was I worth dying for?
3690 Anyone who thinks must think of the next war as they would of suicide.
3353 You have to accept whatever comes, and the only important thing is that you meet it with the best you have to give.
2672 You must do things that you cannot do.
4749 Freedom makes a huge requirement of every human being. With freedom comes responsibility. For the person who is unwilling to grow up, the person who does not want to carry his own weight, this is a frightening prospect.
1346 You can't move so fast that you try to change the mores faster than people can accept it. That doesn't mean you do nothing, but it means that you do the things that need to be done according to priority.
4903 You must do the things you think you cannot.
2987 Once I had a rose named after me and I was very flattered. But I was not pleased to read the description in the catalogue: "No good in a bed, but fine up against a wall.
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