Eleanor Roosevelt on acceptance
Eleanor Roosevelt94 quotes“You can’t move so fast that you try to change the mores faster than people can accept it.”
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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.
Eleanor RooseveltEleanor Roosevelt No man is defeated without until he has first been defeated within.
Eleanor RooseveltEleanor Roosevelt He who learns but does not think is lost. He who thinks but does not learn is in great danger.
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If you repeat a lie often enough it becomes accepted as truth.
Joseph GoebbelsJoseph Goebbels And now I have to confess the unpardonable and the scandalous. I am a happy man. And I am going to tell you the secret of my happiness. It is quite simple. I love mankind. I love love. I hate hate. I try to understand and accept.
Jean CocteauJean Cocteau People hire me to create some kind of archetype or some culture type, or something. I guess they accept whatever I come up with.
Lily TomlinLily Tomlin Ye Hypocrites, are these your pranks To murder men and gie God thanks Desist for shame, proceed no further God won’t accept your thanks for murder.
Robert BurnsRobert Burns We all know the leopard can’t change his stripes.
Al GoreAl Gore The Lord that I serve says the impossible is unacceptable.
Stevie WonderStevie Wonder Women accept their destiny more readily than men.
Thomas HardyThomas Hardy Do you know, it’s funny, but I never thought of being blind as a disadvantage, and I never thought of being black as a disadvantage.
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