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It is better to light a candle than to curse the darkness.
- Chinese proverb often quoted by Eleanor Roosevelt
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With the new day comes new strength and new thoughts.
- Eleanor Roosevelt
The future belongs to those
who believe in the beauty of their dreams.
- Eleanor Roosevelt
When you cease to make a contribution, you begin to die.
- Eleanor Roosevelt
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When will our consciences grow so tender
that we will act to prevent human misery rather than avenge it?
- Eleanor Roosevelt
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
What one has to do usually can be done.
- Eleanor Roosevelt
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.
- Eleanor Roosevelt
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 Roosevelt
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
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 Roosevelt
As for accomplishments,
I just did what I had to do as things came along.
- Eleanor Roosevelt
It is not fair to ask of others
what you are not willing to do yourself.
- Eleanor Roosevelt
You gain strength, courage, and confidence by every experience
in which you really stop to look fear in the face.
You must do the thing which you think you cannot do.
- Eleanor Roosevelt
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 Roosevelt
Do what you feel in your heart to be right.
You'll be criticized anyway.
- Eleanor Roosevelt
You must do the thing that you think you cannot do.
- Eleanor Roosevelt
Only a man's character is the real criterion of worth.
- Eleanor Roosevelt
The giving of love is an education in itself.
- Eleanor Roosevelt
Nobody can make you feel inferior without your consent.
- Eleanor Roosevelt
What you don't do can be a destructive force.
- Eleanor Roosevelt
Remember always that you have not only the right to be an individual,
you have an obligation to be one.
- Eleanor Roosevelt
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
No one can make you feel inferior without your consent.
- Eleanor Roosevelt
Women are like teabags.
We don't know our true strength
until we are in hot water!
- Eleanor Roosevelt
Never allow a person to tell you NO
who doesn't have the power to say YES.
- Eleanor Roosevelt
I think that somehow, we learn who we really are
and then live with that decision.
- Eleanor Roosevelt
People grow through experience
if they meet life honestly and courageously.
This is how character is built.
- Eleanor Roosevelt
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.
- Eleanor Roosevelt
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
In all our contacts, it is probably the sense
of being really needed and wanted
which gives us the greatest satisfaction
and creates the most lasting bond.
- Eleanor Roosevelt
It is not more vacation we need -
it is more vocation.
- Eleanor Roosevelt
What is to give light must endure the burning.
- Eleanor Roosevelt
My experience has been that work is
almost the best way to pull oneself out of the depths.
- Eleanor Roosevelt
Friendship with one's self is all important,
because without it one cannot be friends with anyone else in the world.
- Eleanor Roosevelt
A little simplification would be
the first step toward rational living.
- Eleanor Roosevelt
I used to tell my husband that,
if he could make me "understand" something,
it would be clear to all the other people in the country.
- Eleanor Roosevelt
If life were predictable
it would cease to be life,
and be without flavor.
- Eleanor Roosevelt
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
I gain strength, courage and confidence by every experience
in which I must stop and look fear in the face.
I say to myself, I've lived through this
and can take the next thing that comes along.
- Eleanor Roosevelt
The only advantage of not being too good a housekeeper
is that your guests are so pleased
to feel how very much better they are.
- Eleanor Roosevelt
I have spent many years of my life in opposition,
and I rather like the role.
- Eleanor Roosevelt
Have convictions. Be friendly.
Stick to your beliefs as they stick to theirs.
Work as hard as they do.
- Eleanor Roosevelt
Understanding is a two-way street.
- Eleanor Roosevelt
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.
- Eleanor Roosevelt
Perhaps nature is our best assurance of immortality.
- Eleanor Roosevelt
Great minds discuss ideas;
average minds discuss events;
small minds discuss people.
- Eleanor Roosevelt
Life was meant to be lived,
and curiosity must be kept alive.
One must never, for whatever reason,
turn his back on life.
- Eleanor Roosevelt
You can't move so fast that you try to change
the mores faster than people can accept it.
That doesn't mean you do nothing,
but it means that you do the things that
need to be done according to priority.
- Eleanor Roosevelt
Old age has deformities enough of its own.
It should never add to them the deformity of vice.
- Eleanor Roosevelt
Happiness is not a goal; it is a by-product.
- Eleanor Roosevelt
Justice cannot be for one side alone, but must be for both.
- Eleanor Roosevelt
I'm so glad I never feel important, it does complicate life!
- Eleanor Roosevelt
It takes as much energy to wish as it does to plan.
- Eleanor Roosevelt
We are afraid to care too much, for fear
that the other person does not care at all.
- Eleanor Roosevelt
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
The only things one can admire at length
are those one admires without knowing why.
- Eleanor Roosevelt
The battle for the individual rights of women is one of long standing
and none of us should countenance anything which undermines it.
- Eleanor Roosevelt
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
Hate and force cannot be in just a part of the world
without having an effect on the rest of it.
- Eleanor Roosevelt
Autobiographies are only as useful
as the lives you read about and analyze
may suggest to you something that
you may find useful in your own journey through life.
- Eleanor Roosevelt
There are practical little things in housekeeping
which no man really understands.
- Eleanor Roosevelt
Ambition is pitiless.
Any merit that it cannot use it finds despicable.
- Eleanor Roosevelt
The Bible illustrated by Dore occupied many of my hours -
and I think probably gave me many nightmares.
- Eleanor Roosevelt
Anyone who thinks, must think of
the next war as they would of suicide.
- Eleanor Roosevelt
Actors are one family over the entire world.
- Eleanor Roosevelt
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
Anyone who knows history, particularly
the history of Europe, will, I think,
recognize that the domination
of education or of government
by any one particular religious faith
is never a happy arrangement for the people.
- Eleanor Roosevelt
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
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 Roosevelt
Too often the great decisions are originated and given form
in bodies made up wholly of men, or so completely dominated
by them that whatever of special value women
have to offer is shunted aside without expression.
- Eleanor Roosevelt
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