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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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.
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
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Lang LeavLang Leav Respect your body, it’s a home to be thankful for.
SargamSargam My heart holds your name like it’s the only thing it knows.
N.M SanchezN.M Sanchez Listening and empathizing will enable you to look past fake smiles and dive deeper into the pain in their eyes.
Ankur SinghAnkur Singh I heard the universe whisper “take care of her”
Karla GaleanaKarla Galeana Respect me, not because I respect you, but because I deserve your respect.
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No, I don’t have to practice that grunt. You just do it. Once you’re in character, you’re in character. You don’t sit there purposely thinking, Well, I’ll grunt here, or I’ll groan there.
Clint EastwoodClint Eastwood I always liked characters that were more grounded in reality.
Clint EastwoodClint Eastwood There is no surer road to destruction than prosperity without character.
Calvin CoolidgeCalvin Coolidge Envy is so natural to human kind, that it cannot but arise.
HerodotusHerodotus Remember that with her clothes a woman puts off her modesty.
HerodotusHerodotus I am imperfect in many things, nevertheless I want my brethren and kinsfolk to know my nature so that they may be able to perceive my soul’s desire.
Saint PatrickSaint Patrick America has but one main problem — the character of the men and women it shall produce.
Calvin CoolidgeCalvin Coolidge There never will exist anything permanently noble and excellent in the character which is a stranger to resolute self-denial.
Walter ScottWalter Scott