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.'


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I think that somehow, we learn who we really are and then live with that decision.
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I could not at any age be content to take my place in a corner by the fireside and simply look on.
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Friendship with oneself is all-important, because without it one cannot be friends with anyone else ...
ELEANOR ROOSEVELT
Do what you feel in your heart to be right - for you'll be criticized anyway. You'll be damned if yo...
ELEANOR ROOSEVELT
A woman is like a tea bag- you never know how strong she is until she gets in hot water.
ELEANOR ROOSEVELT
Why do they rate a movie "R" for "adult language?" The only people I hear using that language are t...
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There is nothing to regret - either for those who go or for those who are left behind
ELEANOR ROOSEVELT
It is not fair to ask of others what you are unwilling to do yourself
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I could never say in the morning, "I have a headache and cannot do thus and so". Headache or no head...
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When you know to laugh and when to look upon things as too absurd to take seriously, the other perso...
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Show me someone who doesn't dream about the future and I'll show you someone who doesn't know where ...
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No one won the last war, and no one will win the next war.
ELEANOR ROOSEVELT
It isn't enough to talk about peace. One must believe in it. And it isn't enough to believe in it....
ELEANOR ROOSEVELT
If we want a free and peaceful world, if we want to make the deserts bloom and man grow to greater ...
ELEANOR ROOSEVELT
An economic policy which does not consider the well-being of all will not serve the purposes of peac...
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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...
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I have never felt that anything really mattered by the satisfaction of knowing that you stood for th...
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At any age it does us no harm to look over our past shortcomings and plan to improve our characters ...
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One of the best ways of enslaving a people is to keep them from education... The second way of ensla...
ELEANOR ROOSEVELT
At all times, day by day, we have to continue fighting for freedom of religion, freedom of speech, a...
ELEANOR ROOSEVELT
One of the blessings of age is to learn not to part on a note of sharpness, to treasure the moments ...
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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 t...
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Long ago, I made up my mind that when things were said involving only me, I would pay no attention t...
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To some of us, hunger was more academic than real, but we must try to develop the ability to feel th...
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One should always sleep in all of one's guest beds, to make sure that they are comfortable.
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This living in a democracy is a problem, isn't it?
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It is our freedom to progress that makes us all want to live and to go on.
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I have learned long ago to possess my soul in patience and accept the inevitable.
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I think we ought to impress on both our girls and boys that successful marriages require just as muc...
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A milestone passed, new things begun, dreams as shining as the sun, a goal achieved, a victory won! ...
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Beautiful young people are accidents of nature, But beautiful old people are works of art
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The Marines I have seen around the world have the cleanest bodies, the filthiest minds, the highest ...
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It is neither unusual nor new for me to have Negro friends, nor is it unusual for me to have found m...
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Believe in yourself. You gain strength, courage, and confidence by every experience in which you sto...
ELEANOR ROOSEVELT
Friendship with oneself is all important because without it one cannot be friends with anybody else ...
ELEANOR ROOSEVELT
Freedom makes a huge requirement of every human being. With freedom comes responsibility. For the pe...
ELEANOR ROOSEVELT
Do what you feel in your heart to be right, for you'll be criticized anyway. You'll be damned if you...
ELEANOR ROOSEVELT
You have to accept whatever comes and the only important thing is that you meet it with courage and ...
ELEANOR ROOSEVELT
Do one thing everyday that scares you.
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For instance, it is certain that women do not want a woman for President. Nor would they have the sl...
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The freedom of man, I contend, is the freedom to eat
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Those of us who believe in the right of any human being to belong to whatever church he sees fit, an...
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I think if the people of this country can be reached with the truth, their judgment will be in favor...
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The motivating force of the theory of a Democratic way of life is still a belief that as individuals...
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Every woman who fails in a public position confirms this, but every woman who succeeds creates confi...
ELEANOR ROOSEVELT
When all is said and done, and statesmen discuss the future of the world, the fact remains that peop...
ELEANOR ROOSEVELT
You can't move so fast that you try to change the mores faster than people can accept it. That doesn...
ELEANOR ROOSEVELT
I could not, at any age, be content to take my place in a corner by the fireside and simply look on.
ELEANOR ROOSEVELT
«Vous devez faire les choses que vous vous croyez incapable de faire.»
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"The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams." - Eleanor Roosevelt.
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My father would pick me up and hold me high in the air. He dominated my life as long as he lived, an...
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