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Eleanor Roosevelt

27 quotes

Selected quotes · 27
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Since you get more joy out of giving joy to others, you should put a good deal of thought into the happiness that you are able to give.
Eleanor RooseveltHappiness
02
The giving of love is an education in itself.
Eleanor RooseveltLove
03
The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams.
Eleanor RooseveltMindset
04
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.
Eleanor RooseveltMindset
05
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.
Eleanor RooseveltCourage
06
You must do the things you think you cannot do.
Eleanor RooseveltMindset
07
Old age has deformities enough of its own. It should never add to them the deformity of vice.
Eleanor RooseveltWisdom
08
Never allow a person to tell you no who doesn't have the power to say yes.
Eleanor RooseveltWisdom
09
A woman is like a tea bag; you never know how strong it is until it's in hot water.
Eleanor RooseveltTime
10
Never mistake knowledge for wisdom. One helps you make a living; the other helps you make a life.
Eleanor RooseveltFailure
11
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.
Eleanor RooseveltFreedom
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When life is too easy for us, we must beware or we may not be ready to meet the blows which sooner or later come to everyone, rich or poor.
Eleanor RooseveltLife
13
Anyone who thinks must think of the next war as they would of suicide.
Eleanor RooseveltMindset
14
With the new day comes new strength and new thoughts.
Eleanor RooseveltMindset
15
If life were predictable it would cease to be life, and be without flavor.
Eleanor RooseveltLife
16
No one can make you feel inferior without your consent.
Eleanor RooseveltWisdom
17
Friendship with ones self is all important, because without it one cannot be friends with anyone else in the world.
Eleanor RooseveltFriendship
18
One's philosophy is not best expressed in words; it is expressed in the choices one makes... and the choices we make are ultimately our responsibility.
Eleanor RooseveltFreedom
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Great minds discuss ideas; average minds discuss events; small minds discuss people.
Eleanor RooseveltMindset
20
No matter how plain a woman may be, if truth and honesty are written across her face, she will be beautiful.
Eleanor RooseveltCourage
21
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.
Eleanor RooseveltLife
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Many people will walk in and out of your life, but only true friends will leave footprints in your heart
Eleanor RooseveltCreativity
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Happiness is not a goal; it is a by-product.
Eleanor RooseveltHappiness
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Do what you feel in your heart to be right - for you'll be criticized anyway.
Eleanor RooseveltCreativity
25
Do one thing every day that scares you.
Eleanor RooseveltWisdom
26
We are afraid to care too much, for fear that the other person does not care at all.
Eleanor RooseveltCourage
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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.
Eleanor RooseveltCourage