You always admire what you really don’t understand.
ELEANOR ROOSEVELTOnce I had a rose named after me and I was very flattered.
More Eleanor Roosevelt Quotes
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Today is the oldest you’ve ever been, and the youngest you’ll ever be again.
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To be a citizen in a democracy, a human being must be given a healthy start.
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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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Many people will walk in and out of your life, but only true friends will leave footprints in your heart.
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As for accomplishments, I just did what I had to do as things came along.
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Light a candle instead of cursing the darkness.
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It’s your life-but only if you make it so.
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In the long run, we shape our lives, and we shape ourselves.
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Love can often be misguided and do as much harm as good, but respect can do only good.
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In all our contacts it is probably the sense of being really needed and wanted which gives us the greatest satisfaction and creates the most lasting bond.
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What could we accomplish if we knew we could not fail?
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Character building begins in our infancy and continues until death.
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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.
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Do not stop thinking of life as an adventure.
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Great minds talk about ideas; small minds talk about people.
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