Love can often be misguided and do as much harm as good, but respect can do only good.
ELEANOR ROOSEVELTGreat minds talk about ideas; small minds talk about people.
More Eleanor Roosevelt Quotes
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It seems to me of great importance to teach children respect for life.
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If someone betrays you once, it’s their fault; if they betray you twice, it’s your fault.
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The most unhappy people in the world are those who face the days without knowing what to do with their time.
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A stumbling block to the pessimist is a stepping-stone to the optimist.
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Only a man’s character is the real criterion of worth.
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Many people will walk in and out of your life, but only true friends will leave footprints in your heart.
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We are afraid to care too much, for fear that the other person does not care at all.
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If man is to be liberated to enjoy more leisure, he must also be prepared to enjoy this leisure fully and creatively.
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You always admire what you really don’t understand.
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Your life is your own. You mold it. You make it.
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You can’t move so fast that you try to change the mores faster than people can accept it.
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Each time you learn something new you must readjust the whole framework of your knowledge
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You can not live at all if you do not learn to adapt yourself to your life as it happens to be.
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Happiness is not a goal, it’s a by-product of a life well lived.
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Do the things that interest you and do them with all your heart.
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When you cease to make a contribution, you begin to die.
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As for accomplishments, I just did what I had to do as things came along.
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When will our consciences grow so tender that we will act to prevent human misery rather than avenge it?
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Remember always that you not only have the right to be an individual you have an obligation to be one.
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A great deal of fear is a result of just not knowing.
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Freedom makes a huge requirement of every human being.
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We are the sum total of all the choices we have made.
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With the new day comes new strength and new thoughts.
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You should always own a black dress because no one ever remembers a black dress.
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What could we accomplish if we knew we could not fail?
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Today is the oldest you’ve ever been, and the youngest you’ll ever be again.
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