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Alice Roosevelt Longworth

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ELEANOR ROOSEVELT
Beautiful young people are accidents of nature, but beautiful old people are works of art.
ELEANOR ROOSEVELT
You can often change your circumstances by changing your attitude
ELEANOR ROOSEVELT
To handle yourself, use your head; to handle others, use your heart.
ELEANOR ROOSEVELT
We are afraid to care too much, for fear that the other person does not care at all.
ELEANOR ROOSEVELT
It takes courage to love, but pain through love is the purifying fire which those who love generousl...
ELEANOR ROOSEVELT
The purpose of life is to live it, to taste experience to the utmost, to reach out eagerly and witho...
ELEANOR ROOSEVELT
You gain strength, courage and confidence by every experience in which you really stop to look fear ...
ELEANOR ROOSEVELT
Do what you feel in your heart to be right – for you’ll be criticized anyway.
ELEANOR ROOSEVELT
A woman is like a tea bag; you never know how strong it is until it's in hot water.
ELEANOR ROOSEVELT
No matter how plain a woman may be, if truth and honesty are written across her face, she will be be...
ELEANOR ROOSEVELT
Don't hit at all if it is honorably possible to avoid hitting; but never hit soft!
THEODORE ROOSEVELT
The President is merely the most important among a large number of public servants. He should be sup...
THEODORE ROOSEVELT
Pit race against race, religion against religion, prejudice against prejudice. Divide and conquer! W...
ELEANOR ROOSEVELT
It is better to light a candle than to curse the darkness!
Eleanore Roosevelt
ELEANOR ROOSEVELT
Up to a certain point it is good for us to know that there are people in the world who will give us ...
ELEANOR ROOSEVELT
If man is to be liberated to enjoy more leisure, he must also be prepared to enjoy this leisure full...
ELEANOR ROOSEVELT
To me who dreamed so much as a child, who made a dreamworld in which I was the heroine of an unendin...
ELEANOR ROOSEVELT
Will people ever be wise enough to refuse to follow bad leaders or to take away the freedom of other...
ELEANOR ROOSEVELT
Many people will walk in and out of your life, but only true friends will leave footprints in your h...
ELEANOR ROOSEVELT
It is not the critic who counts; not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles, or where th...
THEODORE ROOSEVELT
No one cares how much you know, until they know how much you care
THEODORE ROOSEVELT
Do what you can, with what you have, where you are.
THEODORE ROOSEVELT
Today is the oldest you've ever been, and the youngest you'll ever be again.
ELEANOR ROOSEVELT
The credit belongs to those who are actually in the arena, who strive valiantly; who know the great ...
THEODORE ROOSEVELT
No man needs sympathy because he has to work, because he has a burden to carry. Far and away the bes...
THEODORE ROOSEVELT
Nothing in the world is worth having or worth doing unless it means effort, pain, difficulty… I ha...
THEODORE ROOSEVELT
In any moment of decision, the best thing you can do is the right thing. The worst thing you can do ...
THEODORE ROOSEVELT
I want to see you shoot the way you shout.
THEODORE ROOSEVELT
The men with the muck-rake are often indispensable to the well-being of society, but only if they kn...
THEODORE ROOSEVELT
A mature person is one who does not think only in absolutes, who is able to be objective even when d...
ELEANOR ROOSEVELT
All the resources we need are in the mind
THEODORE ROOSEVELT
I care not what others think of what I do, but I care very much about what I think of what I do! Tha...
THEODORE ROOSEVELT
It is equality of monotony which makes the strength of the British Isles.
ELEANOR ROOSEVELT
The pacifist is as surely a traitor to his country and to humanity as is the most brutal wrongdoer.
THEODORE ROOSEVELT
Peace is normally a great good, and normally it coincides with righteousness, but it is righteousnes...
THEODORE ROOSEVELT
If we want a free and peaceful world, if we want to make the deserts bloom and man grow to greater d...
ELEANOR ROOSEVELT
Some reformers may urge that in the ages distant future, patriotism, like the habit of monogamous ma...
THEODORE ROOSEVELT
A man who is good enough to shed his blood for his country is good enough to be given a square deal ...
THEODORE ROOSEVELT
Some men can live up to their loftiest ideals without ever going higher than a basement.
THEODORE ROOSEVELT
A man who never graduated from school might steal from a freight car. But a man who attends college ...
THEODORE ROOSEVELT
It is difficult to make our material condition better by the best law, but it is easy enough to ruin...
THEODORE ROOSEVELT
The Roman Republic fell, not because of the ambition of Caesar or Augustus, but because it had alrea...
THEODORE ROOSEVELT
You gain strength, courage, and confidence by every experience in which you really stop to look fear...
ELEANOR ROOSEVELT
We must remember not to judge any public servant by any one act, and especially should we beware of ...
THEODORE ROOSEVELT
Willful sterility is, from the standpoint of the nation, from the standpoint of the human race, the ...
THEODORE ROOSEVELT
Never allow a person to tell you no who doesn't have the power to say yes.
ELEANOR ROOSEVELT
My hat's in the ring. The fight is on and I'm stripped to the buff.
THEODORE ROOSEVELT
And now, first and foremost, you can never afford to forget for a moment what is the object of our f...
THEODORE ROOSEVELT
We of an older generation can get along with what we have, though with growing hardship; but in your...
THEODORE ROOSEVELT
One's philosophy is not best expressed in words; it is expressed in the choices one makes. In the lo...
ELEANOR ROOSEVELT
I am delighted to have you play football. I believe in rough, manly sports. But I do not believe in ...
THEODORE ROOSEVELT