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Eleanor Roosevelt Quotes

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Great minds discuss ideas; average minds discuss events; small minds discuss people.
Eleanor Roosevelt
Great, Small, Minds
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The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams.
Eleanor Roosevelt
Dreams, Beauty, Future
With the new day comes new strength and new thoughts.
Eleanor Roosevelt
Motivational, Strength, Thoughts
We gain strength, and courage, and confidence by each experience in which we really stop to look fear in the face... we must do that which we think we cannot.
Eleanor Roosevelt
Strength, Courage, Experience
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
Courage, Strength, Experience
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, Strong, Woman
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
Heart, Anyway, Criticized
No one can make you feel inferior without your consent.
Eleanor Roosevelt
Inferior, Consent
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, After, Once
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, Die, Until
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
Best, Courage, Important
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
Freedom, Human, Person
Women are like teabags. We don't know our true strength until we are in hot water!
Eleanor Roosevelt
Women, Strength, True
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
Best, Words, Philosophy
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
Birthday, Mother, Child
You must do the things you think you cannot do.
Eleanor Roosevelt
Cannot
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
Peace, Work, Enough
We are afraid to care too much, for fear that the other person does not care at all.
Eleanor Roosevelt
Fear, Care, Person
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, Age, Morning
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, Yourself, Live
Happiness is not a goal; it is a by-product.
Eleanor Roosevelt
Happiness, Goal
Friendship with ones self is all important, because without it one cannot be friends with anyone else in the world.
Eleanor Roosevelt
Friendship, Important, Self
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
Experience, Fear, Successful
It is not fair to ask of others what you are not willing to do yourself.
Eleanor Roosevelt
Yourself, Others, Fair
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
Faith, Education, History

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Nationality: American
Born: October 11, 1884
Died: November 7, 1962

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