Eleanor Roosevelt quotes - page 3

You can never really live anyone else's life, not even your child's. The influence you exert is through your own life, and what you've become yourself. (Eleanor Roosevelt)
One should always sleep in all of one's guest beds, to make sure that they are comfortable. View quote
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One of the best ways of enslaving a people is to keep them from education... The second way of enslaving a people is to suppress the sources of information, not only by burning books but by controlling all the other ways in which ideas are transmitted. View quote
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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. View quote
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Will people ever be wise enough to refuse to follow bad leaders or to take away the freedom of other people. View quote
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You must do the thing that you think you cannot do. View quote
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Beautiful young people are accidents of nature, But beautiful old people are works of art. View quote
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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. View quote
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Never allow a person to tell you no who doesn't have the power to say yes. View quote
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I have never felt that anything really mattered by the satisfaction of knowing that you stood for the things in which you believed and had done the very best you could. View quote
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You can often change your circumstances by changing your attitude. (Eleanor Roosevelt)
To handle yourself, use your head; to handle others, use your heart. View quote
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All of life is a constant education. View quote
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If the use of leisure time is confined to looking at TV for a few extra hours every day, we will deteriorate as a people. View quote
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Life is what you make it. Always has been, always will be. View quote
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Every time you meet a situation, though you think at the moment it is an impossibility and you go through the tortures of the damned, once you have met it and lived through it you find that forever after you are freer than you were before. View quote
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Up to a certain point it is good for us to know that there are people in the world who will give us love and unquestioned loyalty to the limit of their ability. I doubt, however, if it is good for us to feel assured of this without the accompanying obligation of having to justify this devotion by our behavior. View quote
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There never has been security. No man has ever known what he would meet around the next corner; if life were predictable it would cease to be life, and be without flavor. View quote
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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. View quote
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No writing has any real value which is not the expression of genuine thought and feeling. View quote
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What we must learn to do is to create unbreakable bonds between the sciences and the humanities. We cannot procrastinate. The world of the future is in our making. Tomorrow is now. (Eleanor Roosevelt)
Human resources are the most valuable assets the world has. They are all needed desperately. View quote
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When you know to laugh and when to look upon things as too absurd to take seriously, the other person is ashamed to carry through even if he was serious about it. View quote
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I have a great belief in spiritual force, but I think we have to realize that spiritual force alone has to have material force with it so long as we live in a material world. The two together make a strong combination. View quote
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You always admire what you really don't understand. View quote
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