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Eleanor Roosevelt Quotes
American
-
First Lady
October 11, 1884 - November 7, 1962
With the new day comes new strength and new thoughts.
Eleanor Roosevelt
Motivational
Strength
Thoughts
Day
New
New Day
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.'
Eleanor Roosevelt
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.
Eleanor Roosevelt
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.
Eleanor Roosevelt
You
Remember
Always
Only
Individual
Obligation
Right
You must do the things you think you cannot do.
Eleanor Roosevelt
Inspirational
You
Think
Things
Must
Cannot
When you cease to make a contribution, you begin to die.
Eleanor Roosevelt
You
Die
Contribution
Make
Begin
Cease
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
Long
Responsibility
Never
Die
Choices
Ends
Lives
Long Run
Make
Our
Our Lives
Ourselves
Own
Process
Run
Shape
Ultimately
Until
A woman is like a tea bag - you can't tell how strong she is until you put her in hot water.
Eleanor Roosevelt
Women
You
Water
Hot
Tea
Bag
Her
Hot Water
How
Like
Put
She
Strong
Tell
Until
Woman
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
Life
You
Yourself
Never
Anyone
Become
Child
Else
Even
Exert
Influence
Live
Own
Really
Through
Your
Justice cannot be for one side alone, but must be for both.
Eleanor Roosevelt
Alone
Justice
Must
Cannot
Both
Side
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
Women
Great
Men
Value
Aside
Bodies
Decisions
Dominated
Expression
Form
Given
Made
Offer
Often
Originated
Special
Them
Too
Up
Whatever
Wholly
Without
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
Politics
Go
Grow
Always
Definite
Ever
Everyone
Generalities
Grow Up
Little
Mean
Our
Say
Shall
Something
Sometimes
Subscribe
Things
Up
Using
Very
Whether
Which
Wonder
I Wonder
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No one can make you feel inferior without your consent.
Eleanor Roosevelt
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.
Eleanor Roosevelt
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.
Eleanor Roosevelt
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.
Eleanor Roosevelt
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.
Eleanor Roosevelt
Life
Character
Experience
People
Built
Courageously
Grow
Honestly
How
Meet
Through
Happiness is not a goal; it is a by-product.
Eleanor Roosevelt
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.
Eleanor Roosevelt
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.
Eleanor Roosevelt
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.
Eleanor Roosevelt
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.
Eleanor Roosevelt
Age
Old Age
Never
Enough
Add
Deformity
Old
Own
Should
Them
Vice
Ambition is pitiless. Any merit that it cannot use it finds despicable.
Eleanor Roosevelt
Ambition
Cannot
Merit
Use
Any
Despicable
Finds
Actors are one family over the entire world.
Eleanor Roosevelt
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.
Eleanor Roosevelt
Wisdom
Best
Responsibility
Words
Choices
Expressed
Make
Makes
Our
Philosophy
Ultimately
A little simplification would be the first step toward rational living, I think.
Eleanor Roosevelt
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.
Eleanor Roosevelt
More
Need
Vacation
Vocation
Life must be lived and curiosity kept alive. One must never, for whatever reason, turn his back on life.
Eleanor Roosevelt
Life
Curiosity
Never
Alive
Back
His
Kept
Lived
Must
Reason
Turn
Whatever
Only a man's character is the real criterion of worth.
Eleanor Roosevelt
Man
Character
Real
Only
Criterion
Worth
The Bible illustrated by Dore occupied many of my hours - and I think probably gave me many nightmares.
Eleanor Roosevelt
Me
Bible
Think
Nightmares
Gave
Hours
Illustrated
Many
Occupied
I Think
There are practical little things in housekeeping which no man really understands.
Eleanor Roosevelt
Man
Little Things
Things
Little
Housekeeping
Practical
Really
Understands
Which
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
Life
Rich
Poor
Must
Beware
Blows
Come
Easy
Everyone
Later
May
Meet
Ready
Sooner
Sooner Or Later
Too
Us
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.
Eleanor Roosevelt
Work
Peace
Believe
Enough
About
Must
Talk
Understanding is a two-way street.
Eleanor Roosevelt
Street
Understanding
Two-Way
Two-Way Street
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
Car
Time
Always
See
Back
Behavior
Campaign
Everybody
Lean
Little
Parade
Possible
President
Talking
Wives
Hate and force cannot be in just a part of the world without having an effect on the rest of it.
Eleanor Roosevelt
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.
Eleanor Roosevelt
Women
Long
Battle
Us
Anything
Countenance
Individual
Individual Rights
None
Rights
Should
Standing
Which
Long-Standing
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
Me
People
Country
Husband
Clear
Could
He
Make
Other
Something
Tell
Understand
Used
Would
Would-Be
As for accomplishments, I just did what I had to do as things came along.
Eleanor Roosevelt
Things
Just
Did
Along
Accomplishments
Came
Had
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
Education
Faith
History
Government
Any
Anyone
Arrangement
Domination
Europe
For The People
Happy
Knows
Never
Particular
Particularly
People
Recognize
Religious
Religious Faith
The History Of
Think
Who
Will
I Think
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
Good
Me
Rose
Bed
After
Against
Catalogue
Description
Fine
Flattered
Had
Named
Once
Pleased
Read
Up
Very
Wall
The giving of love is an education in itself.
Eleanor Roosevelt
Love
Education
Love Is
Giving
Itself
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
Mother
Birthday
Curiosity
Gift
Ask
Birth
Child
Could
Endow
Fairy
Godmother
Most
Should
Think
Useful
I Think
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
Life
Morning
Age
Evening
Almost
Begun
Disappear
Eager
Entirely
Frequently
Happiest
Large
Midday
Middle
Middle Age
Most
Passions
Period
See
Shadows
Which
Youth
Friendship with ones self is all important, because without it one cannot be friends with anyone else in the world.
Eleanor Roosevelt
Friendship
World
Self
Important
Anyone
Anyone Else
Because
Cannot
Else
Friends
Without
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
Change
You
People
Nothing
Accept
According
Done
Fast
Faster
Mean
Means
Move
Need
Priority
Than
Things
Try
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 his own weight, this is a frightening prospect.
Eleanor Roosevelt
Freedom
Responsibility
Grow
Person
Being
Carry
Does
Every
Frightening
Grow Up
His
Huge
Human
Human Being
Makes
Own
Prospect
Requirement
Unwilling
Up
Want
Weight
Who
What you don't do can be a destructive force.
Eleanor Roosevelt
You
Force
Destructive
It takes as much energy to wish as it does to plan.
Eleanor Roosevelt
Energy
Wish
Plan
Does
Much
Takes
What one has to do usually can be done.
Eleanor Roosevelt
Done
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