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 ROOSEVELTI 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 ROOSEVELTIt takes courage to love, but pain through love is the purifying fire which those who love generously know.
ELEANOR ROOSEVELTNever mistake knowledge for wisdom. One helps you make a living; the other helps you make a life.
ELEANOR ROOSEVELTFriendship with oneself is all important, because without it one cannot be friends with anyone else in the world.
ELEANOR ROOSEVELTThe person who does not want to carry his own weight, this is a frightening prospect.
ELEANOR ROOSEVELTLearn from the mistakes of others. You can’t live long enough to make them all yourself.
ELEANOR ROOSEVELTDo not stop thinking of life as an adventure.
ELEANOR ROOSEVELTRemember always that you not only have the right to be an individual you have an obligation to be one.
ELEANOR ROOSEVELTBeautiful young people are accidents of nature, but beautiful old people are works of art.
ELEANOR ROOSEVELTHappiness is not a goal, it’s a by-product of a life well lived.
ELEANOR ROOSEVELTDon’t be concerned about whether people are watching you or criticizing you.
ELEANOR ROOSEVELTEffort: You must do the thing you think you cannot do.
ELEANOR ROOSEVELTDo what you feel in your heart to be right – for you’ll be criticized anyway.
ELEANOR ROOSEVELTI believe that anyone can conquer fear by doing the things he fears to do
ELEANOR ROOSEVELTNo matter how plain a woman may be, if truth and honesty are written across her face, she will be beautiful.
ELEANOR ROOSEVELTA great deal of fear is a result of just not knowing.
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