Eleanor Roosevelt quotes - page 8

I have learned long ago to possess my soul in patience and accept the inevitable. (Eleanor Roosevelt)
I think we ought to impress on both our girls and boys that successful marriages require just as much work, just as much intelligence and just as much unselfish devotion, as they give to any position they undertake to fill on a paid basis. View quote
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I wonder if Communists occupied in producing plays are not safer than Communists starving to death. I have always felt that whatever your beliefs might be, if you could earn enough to keep body and soul together and had to be pretty busy doing that, you would not be very apt to have time to plot the overthrow of any existing government. View quote
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Whatever come we have to meet it. View quote
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I believe that all that we go through here must have some value. View quote
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To some of us, hunger was more academic than real, but we must try to develop the ability to feel the urgency of such a situation. View quote
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My life can be so arranged that I can live on whatever I have. If I cannot live as I have lived in the past, I shall live differently, and living differently does not mean living with less attention to the things that make life gracious and pleasant or with less enjoyment of things of the mind. View quote
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For instance, it is certain that women do not want a woman for President. Nor would they have the slightest confidence in her ability to fulfill the functions of that office. View quote
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When all is said and done, and statesmen discuss the future of the world, the fact remains that people fight these wars. View quote
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Perhaps in His wisdom the Almighty is trying to show us that a leader may chart the way, may point out the road to lasting peace, but that many leaders and many peoples must do the building. View quote
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After the discovery in 1918 of love letters revealing that Franklin was involved with Lucy Mercer The bottom dropped out of my own particular world, I faced myself, my surroundings, my world, honestly for the first time. (Eleanor Roosevelt)
Spiritual leadership should remain spiritual leadership and the temporal power should not become too important in any church. View quote
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All wars eventually act as boomerangs and the victor suffers as much as the vanquished. View quote
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When you build a memorial, you build it not because the person wanted it, but for the future -- for generations who didn't know the man and didn't know the era in which he lived. View quote
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It is equality of monotony which makes the strength of the British Isles. View quote
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You future first ladies will feel that you are no longer clothing yourself, you are dressing a public monument. View quote
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This is a strange, little, complacent country Switzerland, in many ways a USA in miniature but of course nearer the center of disturbance. View quote
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It is our freedom to progress that makes us all want to live and to go on. View quote
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I would not be happy unless I had some regular work to do every day and I imagine that I will always feel that way no matter how old I am. View quote
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An economic policy which does not consider the well-being of all will not serve the purposes of peace and the growth of well-being among the people of all nations. View quote
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At any age it does us no harm to look over our past shortcomings and plan to improve our characters and actions in the coming year. (Eleanor Roosevelt)
Marriage and the up-bringing of children in the home require as well-trained a mind and as well-disciplined a character as any other occupation that might be considered a career. View quote
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I could never say in the morning, I have a headache and cannot do thus and so. Headache or no headache, thus and so had to be done. View quote
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A trait no other nation seems to possess in quite the same degree as we do namely, a feeling of almost childish injury and resentment unless the world as a whole recognizes how innocent we are of anything but the most generous and harmless intentions. View quote
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One thing life has taught me: if you are interested, you never have to look for new interests. They come to you. View quote
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