Eleanor Roosevelt on friendship
Eleanor Roosevelt94 quotes“Friendship with oneself is all important, because without it one cannot be friends with anyone else in the world.”
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The giving of love is an education in itself.
Eleanor RooseveltEleanor Roosevelt Effort: You must do the thing you think you cannot do.
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Eleanor RooseveltEleanor Roosevelt It takes courage to love, but pain through love is the purifying fire which those who love generously know.
Eleanor RooseveltEleanor Roosevelt Don’t be concerned about whether people are watching you or criticizing you.
Eleanor RooseveltEleanor Roosevelt If you fail the first time then you’ll just have to try harder the second time.
Eleanor RooseveltEleanor Roosevelt 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.
Eleanor RooseveltEleanor Roosevelt As for accomplishments, I just did what I had to do as things came along.
Eleanor RooseveltEleanor Roosevelt You must do the thing you think you cannot do.
Eleanor RooseveltEleanor Roosevelt Absence makes the heart grow fonder.
Eleanor RooseveltEleanor Roosevelt Don’t call a woman a bitch. Call her an ass-hole. It still gets your point across and it’s not sexist.
Eleanor RooseveltEleanor Roosevelt We are the sum total of all the choices we have made.
Eleanor RooseveltEleanor Roosevelt Courage is exhilarating.
Eleanor RooseveltEleanor Roosevelt Justice cannot be for one side alone, but must be for both.
Eleanor RooseveltEleanor Roosevelt Nothing has ever been achieved by the person who says, It can’t be done.
Eleanor RooseveltEleanor Roosevelt Understanding is a two-way street.
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