Eleanor Roosevelt on defeat
Eleanor Roosevelt94 quotes“No man is defeated without until he has first been defeated within.”
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Happiness is not a goal, it’s a by-product of a life well lived.
Eleanor RooseveltEleanor Roosevelt If someone betrays you once, it’s their fault; if they betray you twice, it’s your fault.
Eleanor RooseveltEleanor Roosevelt It takes as much energy to wish as it does to plan.
Eleanor RooseveltEleanor Roosevelt No one won the last war, and no one will win the next war.
Eleanor RooseveltEleanor Roosevelt Great minds talk about ideas; small minds talk about people.
Eleanor RooseveltEleanor Roosevelt Only a man’s character is the real criterion of worth.
Eleanor RooseveltEleanor Roosevelt If man is to be liberated to enjoy more leisure, he must also be prepared to enjoy this leisure fully and creatively.
Eleanor RooseveltEleanor Roosevelt Learn from the mistakes of others. You can’t live long enough to make them all yourself.
Eleanor RooseveltEleanor Roosevelt A stumbling block to the pessimist is a stepping-stone to the optimist.
Eleanor RooseveltEleanor Roosevelt A stumbling block to the pessimist is a stepping-stone to the optimist.
Eleanor RooseveltEleanor Roosevelt When you cease to make a contribution, you begin to die.
Eleanor RooseveltEleanor Roosevelt Do what you feel in your heart to be right – for you’ll be criticized anyway.
Eleanor RooseveltEleanor Roosevelt It seems to me of great importance to teach children respect for life.
Eleanor RooseveltEleanor Roosevelt I think that somehow, we learn who we really are and then live with that decision.
Eleanor RooseveltEleanor Roosevelt Love can often be misguided and do as much harm as good, but respect can do only good.
Eleanor RooseveltEleanor Roosevelt Your life is your own. You mold it. You make it.
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Since you are gone, I collect the stars each night building my own night sky, so I have something to hold onto forever.
Laura ChouetteLaura Chouette Can anybody hear me? Are my words going to waste I need to believe there was a purpose to all the pain?
Allie MillerAllie Miller The universe hears what you say, but it knows what you mean.
Brianna PastorBrianna Pastor Enough of this. The next one I love will return my passion.
Iestyn TudorIestyn Tudor It’s unconditional; their chemistry is unconditional – forever.
Ophelia ScarlettOphelia Scarlett I love you so much that it hurts and that’s the problem I love you so much that it hurts.
Olivia CliffordOlivia Clifford Let’s always bloom, savor and delight others with our beauty.
Mariya FedulovaMariya Fedulova Shadows follow me the way a vulture stalks death. One small step ahead.
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Death is nothing, but to live defeated and inglorious is to die daily.
Napoleon BonaparteNapoleon Bonaparte He who fears being conquered is sure of defeat.
Napoleon BonaparteNapoleon Bonaparte We’ve had to handle defeat many times, and you can’t drawn any conclusions.
Sergio RamosSergio Ramos The primitive ideals of centralization are now largely self-defeating. Human crucifixion by vertically on the now static checkerboard of the old city is pattern already in agony; yet for lack of any organic planning it is going on and on-not living, but rather hanging by its eyebrows from its nervous system.
Frank Lloyd WrightFrank Lloyd Wright Once you hear the details of victory, it is hard to distinguish it from a defeat.
Jean-Paul SartreJean-Paul Sartre If you have no confidence in self, you are twice defeated in the race of life. With confidence, you have won even before you have started.
Marcus Tullius CiceroMarcus Tullius Cicero Sobriety is something I’ll never reach. There’s always another day, another urge to defeat.
Aletheia LiolaAletheia Liola If you live long enough, you’ll see that every victory turns into a defeat.
Simone de BeauvoirSimone de Beauvoir