Eleanor Roosevelt on character
Eleanor Roosevelt94 quotes“People grow through experience if they meet life honestly and courageously. This is how character is built.”
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Only I can let you disrepect me!
Eleanor RooseveltEleanor Roosevelt All of life is a constant education.
Eleanor RooseveltEleanor Roosevelt Happiness is not a goal, it’s a by-product of a life well lived.
Eleanor RooseveltEleanor Roosevelt If someone betrays you once, it’s their fault; if they betray you twice, it’s your fault.
Eleanor RooseveltEleanor Roosevelt 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.
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Marcus Tullius CiceroMarcus Tullius Cicero If you point out that they’re walking in shit they scream it’s you that have dirty feet.
Simone de BeauvoirSimone de Beauvoir If your humanity is dead, you need a lot of morality. If your humanity is alive and overflowing, you will naturally do the best for yourself and everyone around you.
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