Eleanor Roosevelt Quotes

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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Strength Courage You Fear Able Along Confidence Every Experience Face Gain Horror Lived Look Next Next Thing Really Say Stop Take Thing Through Which Yourself I Can

The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams.

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Beauty Future Dreams Believe Belongs Those Who

Remember always that you not only have the right to be an individual, you have an obligation to be one.

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You Remember Always Only Individual Obligation Right

You must do the things you think you cannot do.

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Inspirational You Think Things Must Cannot

When you cease to make a contribution, you begin to die.

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You Die Contribution Make Begin Cease

Justice cannot be for one side alone, but must be for both.

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Alone Justice Must Cannot Both Side

No one can make you feel inferior without your consent.

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You Feel Your Without Make Consent Inferior No-One

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.

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Good Better Feel Your Advantage Being Guests Housekeeper How Much Only Pleased Too Very

Great minds discuss ideas; average minds discuss events; small minds discuss people.

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Great People Ideas Small Average Discuss Events Great Minds Minds Small Minds

It is not fair to ask of others what you are not willing to do yourself.

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You Yourself Others Willing Not Fair Ask Fair

People grow through experience if they meet life honestly and courageously. This is how character is built.

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Life Character Experience People Built Courageously Grow Honestly How Meet Through

Happiness is not a goal; it is a by-product.

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Happiness Goal By-Product

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.

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You Heart Feel Your Anyway Criticized Right

We are afraid to care too much, for fear that the other person does not care at all.

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Fear Relationship Care Person Afraid Does Much Other Too Too Much

The only things one can admire at length are those one admires without knowing why.

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Only Admire Things Knowing Admires Length Those Why Without

Old age has deformities enough of its own. It should never add to them the deformity of vice.

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Age Old Age Never Enough Add Deformity Old Own Should Them Vice

Ambition is pitiless. Any merit that it cannot use it finds despicable.

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Ambition Cannot Merit Use Any Despicable Finds

Actors are one family over the entire world.

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Family World Over Entire World Actor Entire

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.

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Wisdom Best Responsibility Words Choices Expressed Make Makes Our Philosophy Ultimately

A little simplification would be the first step toward rational living, I think.

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Step Think First Step Living First Be The First Little Rational Simplification Toward Would I Think Would-Be

It is not more vacation we need - it is more vocation.

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More Need Vacation Vocation

Life must be lived and curiosity kept alive. One must never, for whatever reason, turn his back on life.

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Life Curiosity Never Alive Back His Kept Lived Must Reason Turn Whatever

Only a man's character is the real criterion of worth.

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Man Character Real Only Criterion Worth

The Bible illustrated by Dore occupied many of my hours - and I think probably gave me many nightmares.

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Me Bible Think Nightmares Gave Hours Illustrated Many Occupied I Think

There are practical little things in housekeeping which no man really understands.

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Man Little Things Things Little Housekeeping Practical Really Understands Which

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.

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Work Peace Believe Enough About Must Talk

Understanding is a two-way street.

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Street Understanding Two-Way Two-Way Street

Hate and force cannot be in just a part of the world without having an effect on the rest of it.

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Hate World Rest Cannot Effect Force Having Just Part Without

The battle for the individual rights of women is one of long standing and none of us should countenance anything which undermines it.

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Women Long Battle Us Anything Countenance Individual Individual Rights None Rights Should Standing Which Long-Standing

As for accomplishments, I just did what I had to do as things came along.

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Things Just Did Along Accomplishments Came Had

The giving of love is an education in itself.

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Love Education Love Is Giving Itself

Friendship with ones self is all important, because without it one cannot be friends with anyone else in the world.

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Friendship World Self Important Anyone Anyone Else Because Cannot Else Friends Without

What you don't do can be a destructive force.

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You Force Destructive

It takes as much energy to wish as it does to plan.

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Energy Wish Plan Does Much Takes

What one has to do usually can be done.

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Done

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