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[In the 1979 miniseries] Backstairs at the White House, ... Eleanor.


Eleanor Roosevelt

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CLAIRE BOOTH LUCE She Eleanor Roosevelt got even in a way that was almost cruel. She forgave them.
RALPH MCGILL She (Eleanor Roosevelt) got even in a way that was almost cruel. She forgave them.
RALPH MCGILL She [Eleanor Roosevelt] got even in a way that was almost cruel. She forgave them.
RALPH MCGILL Remember, no one can make you feel inferior without your consent. -Eleanor Roosevelt.
ELEANOR ROOSEVELT Do one thing everyday that scares you.
MARY SCHMICH America is not a pile of goods, more luxury, more comforts, a better telephone system, a greater num...
ELEANOR ROOSEVELT No man is defeated without until he has first been defeated within.
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KATHY COLLINS The Eleanor Roosevelt Award that I received for women's rights activities is one I treasure.
PATTY DUKE The vengeful hag is played by Ingrid Bergman, which is like casting Eleanor Roosevelt as Lizzie Bord...
KENNETH TYNAN No one, Eleanor Roosevelt said, can make you feel inferior without your consent. Never give it.
MARIAN WRIGHT EDELMAN She has a nice voice, but she looks a little bit too much like Eleanor Roosevelt.
LAWRENCE WELK My role models were Amelia Earhart and Eleanor Roosevelt, and my major crush was J. Edgar Hoover.
SHIRLEY TEMPLE But until a person can say deeply and honestly, "I am what I am today because of the choices I made ...
STEPHEN R. COVEY Love can often be misguided and do as much harm as good, but respect can do only good. It assumes th...
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ELEANOR ROOSEVELT Obedience may have its uses, but it is no substitute for willing, uncoerced co-operation.
ELEANOR ROOSEVELT To be mature you have to realize what you value most... Not to arrive at a clear understanding of on...
ELEANOR ROOSEVELT It is a brave thing to have courage to be an individual; it is also, perhaps, a lonely thing. But it...
ELEANOR ROOSEVELT Well-behaved women seldom make history.
LAUREL THATCHER ULRICH ...no matter how avid they themselves may be for praise and appreciation, people are often niggardly...
ELEANOR ROOSEVELT He made her feel like more than the sum of her parts.
RAINBOW ROWELL I think as the century closes draws to a close and we look back on public figures, ... we realize wh...
ELEANOR ROOSEVELT A woman is like a tea bag; you never know how strong it is until it's in hot water.
ELEANOR ROOSEVELT America is all about speed. Hot, nasty, badass speed.
WILL FERRELL If you can develop this ability to see what you look at, to understand its meaning, to readjust your...
ELEANOR ROOSEVELT Theodore Roosevelt had drawn public attention to his attractive family in order to create a bond wit...
ROBERT DALLEK When women were excluded from New Deal programs, Eleanor Roosevelt fought to include them. Roosevelt...
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ELEANOR CATTON I'm not comparing myself to Bobby Kennedy by any stretch, but he was opposed by the liberal esta...
HAROLD FORD, JR. Puede que Park la hubiera paralizado con su magia ninja, con su toque vulcano y estuviera a punto de...
RAINBOW ROWELL A day out-of- doors, someone I loved to talk with, a good book and some simple food and music — th...
ELEANOR ROOSEVELT You never get the totality of Eleanor in The Lion In Winter,
JEAN LECLERC Since you get more joy out of giving joy to others, you should put a good deal of thought into the h...
ELEANOR ROOSEVELT At the age of fifty-six Eleanor Stoddard was still a beautiful woman. She owned three hotels in Fran...
BARBARA TAYLOR BRADFORD He'd stopped trying to bring her back.
RAINBOW ROWELL First lady has been a thankless position. Eleanor Roosevelt was brilliant and had strong views. She ...
KAREN DECROW Great minds discuss ideas. Average minds discuss events. Small minds discuss people.
HENRY THOMAS BUCKLE You probably wouldn’t worry about what people think of you if you could know how seldom they do.
OLIN MILLER When it's better for everyone, it's better for everyone.
ELEANOR ROOSEVELT Cowell Devlin sighed. Yes, he understood Anna Wetherell at long last, but it was not a happy underst...
ELEANOR CATTON Looking back I see that I was always afraid of something: of the dark, of displeasing people, of fai...
ELEANOR ROOSEVELT I learned the power of radio watching Eleanor Roosevelt do her show. I used to go up to Hyde Park an...
ALLEN FUNT Eleanor is more vibrant than any female icon in our own century,
JEAN LECLERC I'm going to tell Mrs. Burt that my mom doesn't want me to do anything that might rupture my hymen,"...
RAINBOW ROWELL Your fangs are showing, Miss Lyndon."

"Are they?" she asked, reaching up to touch her fac...
JULIA QUINN Am I not allowed to speak in hyperbole?"

"Only," he said, a bit too smoothly, "if you are...
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LAVYRLE SPENCER Park stood up when she got to their row, and as soon as she sat down, he took her hand and kissed it...
RAINBOW ROWELL History teacher Mrs. (Eleanor) Glass inspired her to look beyond Michigan.
DAN BOONE The bible says no man can take your joy. That means no person can make you live with a negative atti...
JOEL OSTEEN The world turned itself into a better place around him.
RAINBOW ROWELL And when Eleanor smiled, something broke inside of him.
Something always did.
RAINBOW ROWELL God Hates divorce."
"He hates cruelty even more."
Caring For Eleanor
SONIA RUMZI There was, it seemed, no Eleanor-shaped social hole for me to slot
GAIL HONEYMAN Is it the smoke?' the boy said, shivering slightly. 'I've never touched the stuff, myself, but how i...
ELEANOR CATTON You think that holding someone hard will bring them closer. You think that you can hold them so hard...
RAINBOW ROWELL That's what people say- 'it's not good-bye' - when they're too afraid to face what they're really fe...
RAINBOW ROWELL It's going to be okay.
Right.
Because I love you.
Is that why?
It is, actually.
RAINBOW ROWELL Ni siquiera puedo respirar cuando no estamos juntos —susurró ella—. Y eso significa que, cuando...
RAINBOW ROWELL I DIDN’T WRITE THEM A HAPPY ENDING BECAUSE 17-YEAR-OLDS DON’T GET ENDINGS.
THEY GET BEGINN...
RAINBOW ROWELL I just want to break that song into pieces," she said, "and love them all to death.
RAINBOW ROWELL It's our last chance.

No. No, I can't... I, no, I need to believe that it isn't our last ...
RAINBOW ROWELL Dear Park, I like you so much. You have really beautiful cheeks.
RAINBOW ROWELL Real love isn't about drama or heartbreak. Real love just is.
SUSAN DENNARD Pourquoi?" Kingsley demanded. "Why? You take her every way you can, every chance you have. Why her a...
TIFFANY REISZ Eleanor went to her room "where she was free to think and be wretched.
JANE AUSTEN What was glimpsed in Aquarius—what was envisioned, believed in, prophesied, predicted, doubted, an...
ELEANOR CATTON Eleanor and I were fighting about her not knowing how to cook, and Freddy was sitting there watching...
ANDREW CLAY Eleanor and I were fighting about her not knowing how to cook, and Freddy was sitting there watching...
ANDREW DICE CLAY Eleanor had never thought about killing herself – ever – but she thought a lot about stopping.
RAINBOW ROWELL The library of my elementary school had this great biography section, and I read all of these paperb...
CHRISTINE QUINN Losing Sarah and my boy was the hardest thing I've ever lived through. But even then, you see, I kne...
JENNIFER ASHLEY Was it a good idea or not? Was it a good idea or not? ...Be straight, Eleanor!
RICH LOWRY Frank Raines stood on the sidelines, leaving Eleanor Holmes Norton all by herself to fend against th...
MARION BARRY You have to accept whatever comes and the only important thing is that you meet it with courage and ...
ELEANOR ROOSEVELT «Qualunque cosa succeda, io non tornerò mai a casa» disse lei risoluta.
«Lo so.»
Ele...
RAINBOW ROWELL Eleanor laughs. “Oh, I know that, silly. But it’s easier not to let them realize it, because the...
KIERSTEN WHITE Yes Leopold," Eleanor said in a low, mocking voice. "Do start to shine, please. I think I saw the ri...
ELOISA JAMES It is not fair to ask of others what you are not willing to do yourself.
ELEANOR ROOSEVELT With the new day comes new strength and new thoughts.
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ELEANOR ROOSEVELT The mother of a family should look upon her housekeeping and the planning of meals as a scientific o...
ELEANOR ROOSEVELT I do not think that I am a natural born mother... If I ever wanted to mother anyone, it was my fathe...
ELEANOR ROOSEVELT Actors are one family over the entire world.
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ELEANOR ROOSEVELT

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It is not fair to ask of others what you are not willing to do yourself.
ELEANOR ROOSEVELT With the new day comes new strength and new thoughts.
ELEANOR ROOSEVELT Campaign behavior for wives: Always be on time. Do as little talking as humanly possible. Lean back ...
ELEANOR ROOSEVELT The mother of a family should look upon her housekeeping and the planning of meals as a scientific o...
ELEANOR ROOSEVELT I do not think that I am a natural born mother... If I ever wanted to mother anyone, it was my fathe...
ELEANOR ROOSEVELT Actors are one family over the entire world.
ELEANOR ROOSEVELT I think I lived those years very impersonally. It was almost as though I had erected someone outside...
ELEANOR ROOSEVELT I can not believe that war is the best solution. No one won the last war, and no one will win the ne...
ELEANOR ROOSEVELT Ambition is pitiless. Any merit that it cannot use it finds despicable.
ELEANOR ROOSEVELT Have convictions. Be friendly. Stick to your beliefs as they stick to theirs. Work as hard as they d...
ELEANOR ROOSEVELT I believe that anyone can conquer fear by doing the things he fears to do, provided he keeps doing t...
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ELEANOR ROOSEVELT The only things one can admire at length are those one admires without knowing why.
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ELEANOR ROOSEVELT If life were predictable it would cease to be life, and be without flavor.
ELEANOR ROOSEVELT Only a man's character is the real criterion of worth.
ELEANOR ROOSEVELT It is not more vacation we need - it is more vocation.
ELEANOR ROOSEVELT Happiness is not a goal; it is a by-product.
ELEANOR ROOSEVELT In the long run, we shape our lives, and we shape ourselves. The process never ends until we die. An...
ELEANOR ROOSEVELT No one can make you feel inferior without your consent.
ELEANOR ROOSEVELT It is better to light a candle than curse the darkness.
ELEANOR ROOSEVELT Old age has deformities enough of its own. It should never add to them the deformity of vice.
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ELEANOR ROOSEVELT My experience has been that work is almost the best way to pull oneself out of the depths.
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ELEANOR ROOSEVELT Anyone who thinks must think of the next war as they would of suicide.
ELEANOR ROOSEVELT Freedom makes a huge requirement of every human being. With freedom comes responsibility. For the pe...
ELEANOR ROOSEVELT I have spent many years of my life in opposition, and I rather like the role.
ELEANOR ROOSEVELT You can never really live anyone else's life, not even your child's. The influence you exert...
ELEANOR ROOSEVELT When you cease to make a contribution, you begin to die.
ELEANOR ROOSEVELT In all our contacts it is probably the sense of being really needed and wanted which gives us the gr...
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ELEANOR ROOSEVELT Since you get more joy out of giving joy to others, you should put a good deal of thought into the h...
ELEANOR ROOSEVELT What you don't do can be a destructive force.
ELEANOR ROOSEVELT Remember always that you not only have the right to be an individual, you have an obligation to be o...
ELEANOR ROOSEVELT I'm so glad I never feel important, it does complicate life!
ELEANOR ROOSEVELT You can't move so fast that you try to change the mores faster than people can accept it. That d...
ELEANOR ROOSEVELT It isn't enough to talk about peace. One must believe in it. And it isn't enough to believe ...
ELEANOR ROOSEVELT Perhaps in His wisdom the Almighty is trying to show us that a leader may chart the way, may point o...
ELEANOR ROOSEVELT Learn from the mistakes of others, you can't live long enough to make them all yourself.
ELEANOR ROOSEVELT Where, after all, do universal human rights begin? In small places, close to home - so close and so ...
ELEANOR ROOSEVELT One's philosophy is not best expressed in words; it is expressed in the choices one makes. In the lo...
ELEANOR ROOSEVELT Happiness is not a goal, it is a by-product.
ELEANOR ROOSEVELT The purpose of life, after all, is to live it, to taste experience to the utmost, to reach out eager...
ELEANOR ROOSEVELT Since you get more joy out of giving joy to others, you should put a good deal of thought into the h...
ELEANOR ROOSEVELT A trait no other nation seems to possess in quite the same degree that we do -- namely, a feeling of...
ELEANOR ROOSEVELT Do what you feel in your heart to be right. You'll be criticized anyway.
ELEANOR ROOSEVELT It isn't enough to talk about peace. One must believe in it. And it isn't enough to believe in it. O...
ELEANOR ROOSEVELT You gain strength, courage and confidence by every experience in which you really stop to look fear ...
ELEANOR ROOSEVELT I think I have a good deal of my Uncle Theodore in me, because I could not, at any age, be content t...
ELEANOR ROOSEVELT Understanding is a two-way street.
ELEANOR ROOSEVELT Light a candle instead of cursing the darkness.
ELEANOR ROOSEVELT Do one thing every day that scares you.
ELEANOR ROOSEVELT Never mistake knowledge for wisdom. One helps you make a living; the other helps you make a life.
ELEANOR ROOSEVELT Never allow a person to tell you no who doesn't have the power to say
yes.
ELEANOR ROOSEVELT Friendship with oneself is all important, because without it one cannot be friends with anyone else ...
ELEANOR ROOSEVELT Once I had a rose named after me and I was very flattered. But I was not pleased to read the descrip...
ELEANOR ROOSEVELT A mature person is one who does not think only in absolutes, who is able to be objective even when d...
ELEANOR ROOSEVELT What could we accomplish if we knew we could not fail?
ELEANOR ROOSEVELT You have to accept whatever comes, and the only important thing is that you meet it with the best yo...
ELEANOR ROOSEVELT Life is what you make it. Always has been, always will be.
ELEANOR ROOSEVELT Happiness is not a goal...it's a by-product of a life well lived.
ELEANOR ROOSEVELT Life was meant to be lived, and curiosity must be kept alive. One must never, for whatever reason, t...
ELEANOR ROOSEVELT Do not stop thinking of life as an adventure. You have no security unless you can live bravely, exci...
ELEANOR ROOSEVELT If someone betrays you once, it’s their fault; if they betray you twice, it’s your fault.
ELEANOR ROOSEVELT The reason that fiction is more interesting than any other form of literature, to those who really l...
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...
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ELEANOR ROOSEVELT Do what you feel in your heart to be right – for you’ll be criticized anyway.
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ELEANOR 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
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ELEANOR ROOSEVELT If man is to be liberated to enjoy more leisure, he must also be prepared to enjoy this leisure full...
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ELEANOR ROOSEVELT Today is the oldest you've ever been, and the youngest you'll ever be again.
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ELEANOR ROOSEVELT It is equality of monotony which makes the strength of the British Isles.
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ELEANOR ROOSEVELT Never allow a person to tell you no who doesn't have the power to say yes.
ELEANOR ROOSEVELT One's philosophy is not best expressed in words; it is expressed in the choices one makes. In the lo...
ELEANOR ROOSEVELT I think somehow we learn who we really are and then we live with that decision.
ELEANOR ROOSEVELT Somewhere along the line of development we discover what we really are, and then we make our real de...
ELEANOR ROOSEVELT I think, at a child's birth, if a mother could ask a fairy godmother to endow it with the most usefu...
ELEANOR ROOSEVELT All human beings have failings, all human beings have needs and temptations and stresses. Men and wo...
ELEANOR ROOSEVELT You have to accept whatever comes and the only important thing is that you meet it with the best you...
ELEANOR ROOSEVELT Nobody can make you feel inferior without your consent.
ELEANOR ROOSEVELT Perhaps nature is our best assurance of immortality.
ELEANOR ROOSEVELT What one has to do usually can be done.
ELEANOR ROOSEVELT I have spent many years of my life in opposition and I like the role.
ELEANOR ROOSEVELT You always admire what you really don't understand.
ELEANOR ROOSEVELT You always admire what you really don't understand.
ELEANOR ROOSEVELT A mature person is one who is does not think only in absolutes, who is able to be objective even whe...
ELEANOR ROOSEVELT The kind of man who thinks that helping with the dishes is beneath him will also think that helping ...
ELEANOR ROOSEVELT I once had a rose named after me and I was very flattered. But I was not pleased to read the descrip...
ELEANOR ROOSEVELT It is better to light 1 candle than to curse the darkness.
ELEANOR ROOSEVELT One's philosophy is not best expressed in words; it is expressed in the choices one makes ... and th...
ELEANOR ROOSEVELT I hope your dreams take you... to the corners of your smiles, to the highest of your hopes, to the w...
ELEANOR ROOSEVELT Good friends are like stars.... You don't always see them, but you know they are always there
ELEANOR ROOSEVELT Sometimes I wonder if we shall ever grow up in our politics and say definite things which mean somet...
ELEANOR ROOSEVELT Great minds discuss ideas; Average minds discuss events; Small minds discuss people
ELEANOR ROOSEVELT So much attention is paid to the aggressive sins, such as violence and cruelty and greed with all th...
ELEANOR ROOSEVELT It was a wife's duty to be interested in whatever interested her husband, whether it was politics, b...
ELEANOR ROOSEVELT I used to tell my husband that, if he could make me 'understand' something, it would be clear to all...
ELEANOR ROOSEVELT Hate and force cannot be in just a part of the world without having an effect on the rest of it.
ELEANOR ROOSEVELT The battle for the individual rights of women is one of long standing and none of us should countena...
ELEANOR ROOSEVELT You must do the thing you think you cannot do
ELEANOR ROOSEVELT Whatever come we have to meet it.
ELEANOR ROOSEVELT A woman is like a teabag, you never know how strong she is until she gets into hot water.
ELEANOR ROOSEVELT You must do the thing you think you cannot do. -Eleanor Roosevelt.
ELEANOR ROOSEVELT Remember, no one can make you feel inferior without your consent. -Eleanor Roosevelt.
ELEANOR ROOSEVELT Remember always that you not only have the right to be an individual you have an obligation to be on...
ELEANOR ROOSEVELT Never allow a person to tell you no who doesn't have the power to say yes.
ELEANOR ROOSEVELT As for accomplishments, I just did what I had to do as things came along.
ELEANOR ROOSEVELT One's philosophy is not best expressed in words; it is expressed in the choices one makes... and...
ELEANOR ROOSEVELT People grow through experience if they meet life honestly and courageously. This is how character is...
ELEANOR ROOSEVELT You gain strength, courage, and confidence by every experience in which you really stop to look fear...
ELEANOR ROOSEVELT Great minds discuss ideas; average minds discuss events; small minds discuss people.
ELEANOR ROOSEVELT The giving of love is an education in itself.
ELEANOR ROOSEVELT It takes as much energy to wish as it does to plan.
ELEANOR ROOSEVELT I think, at a child's birth, if a mother could ask a fairy godmother to endow it with the most u...
ELEANOR ROOSEVELT You have to accept whatever comes and the only important thing is that you meet it with courage and ...
ELEANOR ROOSEVELT You must do the things you think you cannot do.
ELEANOR ROOSEVELT Justice cannot be for one side alone, but must be for both.
ELEANOR ROOSEVELT The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams.
ELEANOR ROOSEVELT A stumbling block to the pessimist is a stepping-stone to the optimist.
ELEANOR ROOSEVELT Probably the happiest period in life most frequently is in middle age, when the eager passions of yo...
ELEANOR ROOSEVELT Autobiographies are only useful as the lives you read about and analyze may suggest to you something...
ELEANOR ROOSEVELT When will our consciences grow so tender that we will act to prevent human misery rather than avenge...
ELEANOR ROOSEVELT Too often the great decisions are originated and given form in bodies made up wholly of men, or so c...
ELEANOR ROOSEVELT Anyone who knows history, particularly the history of Europe, will, I think, recognize that the domi...
ELEANOR ROOSEVELT Do what you feel in your heart to be right- for you'll be criticized anyway. You'll be damne...
ELEANOR ROOSEVELT A woman is like a tea bag - you can't tell how strong she is until you put her in hot water.
ELEANOR ROOSEVELT A little simplification would be the first step toward rational living, I think.
ELEANOR ROOSEVELT When life is too easy for us, we must beware or we may not be ready to meet the blows which sooner o...
ELEANOR ROOSEVELT There are practical little things in housekeeping which no man really understands.
ELEANOR ROOSEVELT We gain strength, and courage, and confidence by each experience in which we really stop to look fea...
ELEANOR ROOSEVELT One thing life has taught me: if you are interested, you never have to look for new interests. They ...
ELEANOR ROOSEVELT Learn from the mistakes of others. You can’t live long enough to make them all yourself.
ELEANOR ROOSEVELT It is not fair to ask of others what you are unwilling to do yourself.
ELEANOR ROOSEVELT If someone betrays you once, it’s their fault; if they betray you twice, it’s your fault.
ELEANOR ROOSEVELT I think that somehow, we learn who we really are and then live with that decision.
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 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...
ELEANOR ROOSEVELT 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
ELEANOR ROOSEVELT I could never say in the morning, "I have a headache and cannot do thus and so". Headache or no head...
ELEANOR ROOSEVELT When you know to laugh and when to look upon things as too absurd to take seriously, the other perso...
ELEANOR ROOSEVELT Show me someone who doesn't dream about the future and I'll show you someone who doesn't know where ...
ELEANOR ROOSEVELT 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...
ELEANOR ROOSEVELT I would not be happy unless I had some regular work to do every day and I imagine that I will always...
ELEANOR ROOSEVELT I have never felt that anything really mattered by the satisfaction of knowing that you stood for th...
ELEANOR ROOSEVELT At any age it does us no harm to look over our past shortcomings and plan to improve our characters ...
ELEANOR ROOSEVELT 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 ...
ELEANOR ROOSEVELT My life can be so arranged that I can live on whatever I have. If I cannot live as I have lived in t...
ELEANOR ROOSEVELT Long ago, I made up my mind that when things were said involving only me, I would pay no attention t...
ELEANOR ROOSEVELT To some of us, hunger was more academic than real, but we must try to develop the ability to feel th...
ELEANOR ROOSEVELT One should always sleep in all of one's guest beds, to make sure that they are comfortable.
ELEANOR ROOSEVELT This living in a democracy is a problem, isn't it?
ELEANOR ROOSEVELT It is our freedom to progress that makes us all want to live and to go on.
ELEANOR ROOSEVELT I have learned long ago to possess my soul in patience and accept the inevitable.
ELEANOR ROOSEVELT I think we ought to impress on both our girls and boys that successful marriages require just as muc...
ELEANOR ROOSEVELT A milestone passed, new things begun, dreams as shining as the sun, a goal achieved, a victory won! ...
ELEANOR ROOSEVELT Beautiful young people are accidents of nature, But beautiful old people are works of art
ELEANOR ROOSEVELT The Marines I have seen around the world have the cleanest bodies, the filthiest minds, the highest ...
ELEANOR ROOSEVELT It is neither unusual nor new for me to have Negro friends, nor is it unusual for me to have found m...
ELEANOR ROOSEVELT 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.
ELEANOR ROOSEVELT For instance, it is certain that women do not want a woman for President. Nor would they have the sl...
ELEANOR ROOSEVELT The freedom of man, I contend, is the freedom to eat
ELEANOR ROOSEVELT Those of us who believe in the right of any human being to belong to whatever church he sees fit, an...
ELEANOR ROOSEVELT I think if the people of this country can be reached with the truth, their judgment will be in favor...
ELEANOR ROOSEVELT The motivating force of the theory of a Democratic way of life is still a belief that as individuals...
ELEANOR ROOSEVELT 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.»
ELEANOR ROOSEVELT "The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams." - Eleanor Roosevelt.
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