He who learns but does not think is lost. He who thinks but does not learn is in great danger.
ELEANOR ROOSEVELTI could not at any age be content to take my place in a corner by the fireside and simply look on.
More Eleanor Roosevelt Quotes
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Do not stop thinking of life as an adventure.
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Courage is exhilarating.
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Don’t be concerned about whether people are watching you or criticizing you.
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I believe that anyone can conquer fear by doing the things he fears to do
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Understanding is a two-way street.
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Great minds talk about ideas; small minds talk about people.
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No one won the last war, and no one will win the next war.
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Learn from the mistakes of others. You can’t live long enough to make them all yourself.
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Only a man’s character is the real criterion of worth.
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In the long run, we shape our lives, and we shape ourselves.
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Friendship with oneself is all important, because without it one cannot be friends with anyone else in the world.
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No one can make you feel inferior without your permission.
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Do the things that interest you and do them with all your heart.
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Light a candle instead of cursing the darkness.
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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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You gain strength, courage and confidence by every experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face.
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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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It takes as much energy to wish as it does to plan.
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I cannot go to bed tonight without a word to you.
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You should always own a black dress because no one ever remembers a black dress.
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Good leaders inspire people to have confidence in their leader. Great leaders inspire people to have confidence in themselves.
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To be a citizen in a democracy, a human being must be given a healthy start.
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Only I can let you disrepect me!
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Beautiful young people are accidents of nature, but beautiful old people are works of art.
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Success in marriage depends on being able, when you get over being in love, to really love.
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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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