48 quotes by Eleanor Roosevelt

“The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams.” — Eleanor Roosevelt

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“Remember no one can make you feel inferior without your consent.” — Eleanor Roosevelt

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“People grow through experience if they meet life honestly and courageously. This is how character is built.” — Eleanor Roosevelt

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“Campaign behavior for wives: Always be on time. Do as little talking as humanly possible. Lean back in the parade car so everybody can see the president.” — Eleanor Roosevelt

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“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.'” — Eleanor Roosevelt

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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.” — Eleanor Roosevelt

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“My experience has been that work is almost the best way to pull oneself out of the depths.” — Eleanor Roosevelt

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“If life were predictable it would cease to be life, and be without flavor.” — Eleanor Roosevelt

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“I can not believe that war is the best solution. No one won the last war, and no one will win the next war.” — Eleanor Roosevelt

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“Perhaps nature is our best assurance of immortality.” — Eleanor Roosevelt

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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.” — Eleanor Roosevelt

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“We are afraid to care too much, for fear that the other person does not care at all.” — Eleanor Roosevelt

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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 Roosevelt

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“Happiness is not a goal; it is a by-product.” — Eleanor Roosevelt

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“It is not fair to ask of others what you are not willing to do yourself.” — Eleanor Roosevelt

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“With the new day comes new strength and new thoughts.” — Eleanor Roosevelt

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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.” — Eleanor Roosevelt

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“Never allow a person to tell you no who doesn't have the power to say yes.” — Eleanor Roosevelt

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“Do what you feel in your heart to be right, for you'll be criticized anyway.” — Eleanor Roosevelt

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“It is not fair to ask of others what you are unwilling to do yourself.” — Eleanor Roosevelt

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“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.” — Eleanor Roosevelt

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“Friendship with ones self is all important, because without it one cannot be friends with anyone else in the world.” — Eleanor Roosevelt

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“I once 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.” — Eleanor Roosevelt

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“Old age has deformities enough of its own. It should never add to them the deformity of vice.” — Eleanor Roosevelt

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“Actors are one family over the entire world.” — Eleanor Roosevelt

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