More from Eleanor Roosevelt
What you don’t do can be a destructive force.
Eleanor RooseveltEleanor Roosevelt I am who I am today because of the choices I made yesterday.
Eleanor RooseveltEleanor Roosevelt Once I had a rose named after me and I was very flattered.
Eleanor RooseveltEleanor Roosevelt In all our contacts it is probably the sense of being really needed and wanted which gives us the greatest satisfaction and creates the most lasting bond.
Eleanor RooseveltEleanor Roosevelt There is nothing to fear except fear it’s self.
Eleanor RooseveltEleanor Roosevelt Tomorrow is a mystery. Today is a gift. That is why it is called the present.
Eleanor RooseveltEleanor Roosevelt You can’t move so fast that you try to change the mores faster than people can accept it.
Eleanor RooseveltEleanor Roosevelt Life was meant to be lived, and curiosity must be kept alive. One must never, for whatever reason, turn his back on life.
Eleanor RooseveltEleanor Roosevelt To be a citizen in a democracy, a human being must be given a healthy start.
Eleanor RooseveltEleanor Roosevelt Light a candle instead of cursing the darkness.
Eleanor RooseveltEleanor Roosevelt When it’s better for everyone, it’s better for everyone.
Eleanor RooseveltEleanor Roosevelt 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.
Eleanor RooseveltEleanor Roosevelt People grow through experience if they meet life honestly and courageously. This is how character is built.
Eleanor RooseveltEleanor Roosevelt Every woman wants to be first to someone sometime in her life and that desire is the explanation for many strange things women do.
Eleanor RooseveltEleanor Roosevelt Character building begins in our infancy and continues until death.
Eleanor RooseveltEleanor Roosevelt To handle yourself, use your head; to handle others, use your heart.
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I saw myself in a different light.
Post MalonePost Malone The best revenge is to be unlike him who performed the injury.
Marcus AureliusMarcus Aurelius What makes you different is what makes you beautiful.
I never think of myself as an icon. What is in other people’s minds is not in my mind. I just do my thing.
The best is yet to come.
Some people imagine that they are well informed because they have memorized a whole galaxy of trendy dogmas and fashionable attitudes.
He is so rich, he has no room to shit.
Yes, I deserve a spring – I owe nobody nothing.
