A stumbling block to the pessimist is a stepping-stone to the optimist.
ELEANOR ROOSEVELTUnderstanding is a two-way street.
More Eleanor Roosevelt Quotes
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Effort: You must do the thing you think you cannot do.
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The most unhappy people in the world are those who face the days without knowing what to do with their time.
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You gain strength, courage and confidence by every experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face.
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What could we accomplish if we knew we could not fail?
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We are the sum total of all the choices we have made.
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No one can make you feel inferior without your permission.
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Your life is your own. You mold it. You make it.
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It takes courage to love, but pain through love is the purifying fire which those who love generously know.
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Justice cannot be for one side alone, but must be for both.
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You can’t move so fast that you try to change the mores faster than people can accept it.
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No one can make you feel inferior without your consent.
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Today is the oldest you’ve ever been, and the youngest you’ll ever be again.
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One’s philosophy is not best expressed in words; it is expressed in the choices one makes.
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No one won the last war, and no one will win the next war.
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Be confident, not certain
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If you lose money you lose much, If you lose friends you lose more, If you lose faith you lose all.
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Nothing has ever been achieved by the person who says, It can’t be done.
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No matter how plain a woman may be, if truth and honesty are written across her face, she will be beautiful.
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Never mistake knowledge for wisdom. One helps you make a living; the other helps you make a life.
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When you cease to make a contribution, you begin to die.
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To be a citizen in a democracy, a human being must be given a healthy start.
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You always admire what you really don’t understand.
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Courage is exhilarating.
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No man is defeated without until he has first been defeated within.
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All of life is a constant education.
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Only I can let you disrepect me!
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