More from Eleanor Roosevelt
Friendship with oneself is all important, because without it one cannot be friends with anyone else in the world.
Eleanor RooseveltEleanor Roosevelt It is not fair to ask of others what you are not willing to do yourself.
Eleanor RooseveltEleanor Roosevelt When will our consciences grow so tender that we will act to prevent human misery rather than avenge it?
Eleanor RooseveltEleanor Roosevelt I believe that anyone can conquer fear by doing the things he fears to do
Eleanor RooseveltEleanor Roosevelt You should always own a black dress because no one ever remembers a black dress.
Eleanor RooseveltEleanor Roosevelt If you lose money you lose much, If you lose friends you lose more, If you lose faith you lose all.
Eleanor RooseveltEleanor Roosevelt Many people will walk in and out of your life, but only true friends will leave footprints in your heart.
Eleanor RooseveltEleanor Roosevelt Life is what you make it. Always has been, always will be.
Eleanor RooseveltEleanor Roosevelt Good leaders inspire people to have confidence in their leader. Great leaders inspire people to have confidence in themselves.
Eleanor RooseveltEleanor Roosevelt There is not human being from whom we cannot learn something if we are interested enough to dig deep.
Eleanor RooseveltEleanor Roosevelt You always admire what you really don’t understand.
Eleanor RooseveltEleanor Roosevelt The most unhappy people in the world are those who face the days without knowing what to do with their time.
Eleanor RooseveltEleanor Roosevelt Never be bored, and you will never be boring.
Eleanor RooseveltEleanor Roosevelt One’s philosophy is not best expressed in words; it is expressed in the choices one makes.
Eleanor RooseveltEleanor Roosevelt Freedom makes a huge requirement of every human being.
Eleanor RooseveltEleanor Roosevelt I cannot go to bed tonight without a word to you.
Eleanor RooseveltEleanor Roosevelt
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Caught inside my mind trapped between its horrid lines losing precious time.
Carmen AmadosCarmen Amados Some women will have you look at life differently.
Eleni SophiaEleni Sophia The biggest reward often require the largest risks.
Nicole BrownNicole Brown Being with you is familiar, like playing guitar after some time; the theory is there but my fingers have forgotten the chords.
AstaAsta Late-night conservations, Breathtaking memories, and an endless sky full of unseen dazzling stars. That’s how I want to remember us.
AurthurAurthur Nothing is more terrifying than falling in love.
Helena DegnHelena Degn People who cannot see through souls will keep searching for beauty in faces and will never find it.
Shilpa GoelShilpa Goel There is someone out there waiting to love you in all the ways you deserve.
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It is He who is revealed in every face, sought in every sign, gazed upon by every eye, worshipped in every object of worship, and pursued in the unseen and the visible. Not a single one of His creatures can fail to find Him in its primordial and original nature.
Ibn ArabiIbn Arabi We must complain. Yes, plain, blunt complaint, ceaseless agitation, unfailing exposure of dishonesty and wrong – this is the ancient, unerring way to liberty and we must follow it.
W. E. B. Du BoisW. E. B. Du Bois Some of us learn control, more or less by accident. The rest of us go all our lives not even understanding how it is possible, and blaming our failure on being born the wrong way.
B. F. SkinnerB. F. Skinner Am I more afraid of failing or succeeding?
Sarah J. MarvinSarah J. Marvin Temerity is not always successful.
LivyLivy In the end, it’s not about failure, it’s about how much you love what you do.
Vera WangVera Wang The church that preaches the gospel in all of its fullness, except as it applies to the great social ills of the day, is failing to preach the gospel.
Martin LutherMartin Luther Expose not the secret failings of mankind, otherwise you must verily bring scandal upon them and distrust upon yourself.
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