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 ROOSEVELTYou can’t move so fast that you try to change the mores faster than people can accept it.
More Eleanor Roosevelt Quotes
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No one can make you feel inferior without your permission.
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It isn’t enough to talk about peace. One must believe in it. And it isn’t enough to believe in it. One must work at it.
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If you fail the first time then you’ll just have to try harder the second time.
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To handle yourself, use your head; to handle others, use your heart.
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Life is what you make it. Always has been, always will be.
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No man is defeated without until he has first been defeated within.
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To be a citizen in a democracy, a human being must be given a healthy start.
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I could not at any age be content to take my place in a corner by the fireside and simply look on.
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Work is always an antidote to depression.
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Don’t be concerned about whether people are watching you or criticizing you.
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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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In the long run, we shape our lives, and we shape ourselves.
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It’s your life-but only if you make it so.
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I think that somehow, we learn who we really are and then live with that decision.
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Only I can let you disrepect me!
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