100+ Eleanor Roosevelt Quotes & Sayings

Remember always that you not only have the right to be an individual you have an obligation to be one.
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Individual Obligation Remember Responsiblity
In the long run, we shape our lives, and we shape ourselves.
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Future Inspirational Live Run Shape
In the long run, we shape our lives, and we shape ourselves.
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Future Inspirational Live Run Shape
Beautiful young people are accidents of nature, but beautiful old people are works of art.
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Accident Art Beautiful People Work Young Youth
Only I can let you disrepect me!
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Attitude One Liner Respect Self Love Self Respect
All of life is a constant education.
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Constant Education Knowledge Life One Liner
Happiness is not a goal, it’s a by-product of a life well lived.
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Goals Happiness Life Live One Liner Product
If someone betrays you once, it’s their fault; if they betray you twice, it’s your fault.
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Betrayal Fault Hurt Suffering
It takes as much energy to wish as it does to plan.
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Energy One Liner Planning Wish
No one won the last war, and no one will win the next war.
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Failure One Liner Success Victory War Win
Great minds talk about ideas; small minds talk about people.
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Human Nature Ideas One Liner People Talk
Only a man’s character is the real criterion of worth.
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Character Man One Liner Worth
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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Creative Leisure Liberty Man Prepare
Learn from the mistakes of others. You can’t live long enough to make them all yourself.
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Enough Inspirational Learning Mistake
A stumbling block to the pessimist is a stepping-stone to the optimist.
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Block Optimist Stumble
A stumbling block to the pessimist is a stepping-stone to the optimist.
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Block Optimist Stumble
When you cease to make a contribution, you begin to die.
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Beginning Cease Contribution Death One Liner
Do what you feel in your heart to be right – for you’ll be criticized anyway.
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Criticize Feeling Freedom Inspirational
It seems to me of great importance to teach children respect for life.
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Children Important Life Respect Understand Value
I think that somehow, we learn who we really are and then live with that decision.
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Decision Learning Live Understand
Love can often be misguided and do as much harm as good, but respect can do only good.
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Goodness Harm Love Misguide Respect
Your life is your own. You mold it. You make it.
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Inspirational Life Success
No man is defeated without until he has first been defeated within.
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Defeat Failure Inspirational Man One Liner Success
He who learns but does not think is lost. He who thinks but does not learn is in great danger.
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DAngry Learning Lost Thinking
What could we accomplish if we knew we could not fail?
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Accomplishment Failure Success
Never mistake knowledge for wisdom. One helps you make a living; the other helps you make a life.
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Helping Knowledge Life Live Mistake never Wisdom
With the new day comes new strength and new thoughts.
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Ideas Inspirational Life One Liner Strength Success

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