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Quotes by Eleanor Roosevelt
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Great minds discuss ideas; average minds discuss events; small minds discuss people.
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.
We are afraid to care too much, for fear that the other person does not care at all.
A woman is like a tea bag - you can't tell how strong she is until you put her in hot water.
The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams.
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 lived through this horror. I can take the next thing that comes along.'
No one can make you feel inferior without your consent.
People grow through experience if they meet life honestly and courageously. This is how character is built.
You must do the things you think you cannot do.
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.
In the long run, we shape our lives, and we shape ourselves. The process never ends until we die. And the choices we make are ultimately our own responsibility.
It is better to light a candle than curse the darkness.
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.
I think, at a child's birth, if a mother could ask a fairy godmother to endow it with the most useful gift, that gift should be curiosity.
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.
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.
Happiness is not a goal; it is a by-product.
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 is own weight, this is a frightening prospect.
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.
Justice cannot be for one side alone, but must be for both.
It takes as much energy to wish as it does to plan.
Have convictions. Be friendly. Stick to your beliefs as they stick to theirs. Work as hard as they do.
Never allow a person to tell you no who doesn't have the power to say yes.
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