Quotes by Eleanor Roosevelt

Eleanor Roosevelt

Eleanor Roosevelt

American "First Lady" and columnist

Lived from: 1884 - 1962

Born: 11 october 1884 Died: 7 november 1962

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  • Friendship with oneself is all-important, because without it one cannot be friends with anyone else in the world.
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  • Perhaps in His wisdom the Almighty is trying to show us that a leader may chart the way, may point out the road to lasting peace, but that many leaders and many peoples must do the building.
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  • My experience has been that work is almost the best way to pull oneself out of the depths.
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  • A trait no other nation seems to possess in quite the same degree that we do - namely, a feeling of almost childish injury and resentment unless the world as a whole recognizes how innocent we are of anything but the most generous and harmless intentions.
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  • Do what you feel in your heart to be right. You'll be criticized anyway.
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  • Friendship with our self is all-important, because without it one cannot be friends with anyone else in the world.
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  • Happiness is not a goal, it is a by-product.
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  • 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.
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  • I cannot believe that war is the best solution. No one won the last war and no one will win the next.
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  • I have spent many years of my life in opposition and I like the role.
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  • 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.
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  • I think somehow we learn who we really are and then we live with that decision.
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  • 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 would be curiosity.
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  • 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.
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  • If life were predictable it would cease to be life, and be without flavor.
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  • If we want a free and peaceful world, if we want to make the deserts bloom and man grow to greater dignity as a human being-we can do it.
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  • It is better to light a candle than curse the darkness.
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  • It is equality of monotony which makes the strength of the British Isles.
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  • It is not fair to ask of others what you are not willing to do yourself.
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  • 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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