Eleanor Roosevelt Quotes About Running

Quotes about: Running

• Courage is more exhilarating than fear, and in the long run, it is easier.

  Eleanor Roosevelt

  Running, Courage, Hero

  Eleanor Roosevelt (1960). “You Learn by Living”, p.41, Westminster John Knox Press

• The basis of world peace is the teaching which runs through almost all the great religions of the world. Love thy neighbor as thyself.

  Eleanor Roosevelt

  Love, Running, Peace

• The basis of world peace is the teaching which runs through almost all the great religions of the world. "Love thy neighbor as thyself." Christ, some of the other great Jewish teachers, Buddha, all preached it. Their followers forgot it. What is the trouble between capital and labor, what is the trouble in many of our communities, but rather a universal forgetting that this teaching is one of our first obligations.

  Eleanor Roosevelt

  Running, Teacher, Peace

• In the long run, we shape our lives, and we shape ourselves. The process never ends until we die. And the choices we make are ultimately our own responsibility.

  Eleanor Roosevelt

  Life, Motivational, Running

  Eleanor Roosevelt (1960). “You Learn by Living”, p.12, Westminster John Knox Press

• You gain strength, courage, and confidence by doing the thing which you think you cannot do.

  Eleanor Roosevelt

  Running, Fear, Cancer

• Courage is more exhilarating than fear and in the long run it is easier. We do not have to become heroes over night. Just a step at a time, meeting each thing that comes up, seeing it is not as dreadful as it appeared, discovering we have the strength to stare it down.

  Eleanor Roosevelt

  Strength, Being Strong, Running

  Eleanor Roosevelt (1960). “You Learn by Living”, p.41, Westminster John Knox Press

• Our children should learn the general framework of their government and then they should know where they come in contact with the government, where it touches their daily lives and where their influence is exerted on the government. It must not be a distant thing, someone else's business, but they must see how every cog in the wheel of a democracy is important and bears its share of responsibility for the smooth running of the entire machine.

  Eleanor Roosevelt

  Running, Children, Responsibility

• ...so much attention is paid to the aggressive sins, such as violence and cruelty, and greed with all their tragic effects, that too little attention is paid to the passive sins, such as apathy and laziness, which in the long run can have a more devastating and destructive effect upon society than the others.

  Eleanor Roosevelt

  Running, Long, Greed

  Eleanor Roosevelt (1960). “You Learn by Living”, p.153, Westminster John Knox Press

• One's philosophy is not best expressed in words; it is expressed in the choices one makes. In stopping to think through the meaning of what I have learned, there is much that I believe intensely, much I am unsure of. In the long run, we shape our lives and we shape ourselves. The process never ends until we die. And, the choices we make are ultimately our own responsibility.

  Eleanor Roosevelt

  Running, Philosophy, Believe

  "You Learn by Living" by Eleanor Roosevelt, (Foreword), 1960.

• What counts, in the long run, is not what you read; it is what you sift through your own mind; it is the ideas and impressions that are aroused in you by your reading. It is the ideas stirred in your own mind, the ideas which are a reflection of your own thinking, which make you an interesting person

  Eleanor Roosevelt

  Running, Reading, Reflection

  Eleanor Roosevelt (2011). “You Learn By Living: Eleven Keys for a More Fulfilling Life”, p.15, Harper Collins

• In the long run there is no more exhilarating experience than to determine one's position, state it bravely and then act boldly.

  Eleanor Roosevelt

  Running, Long, States

  "Tomorrow Is Now" by Eleanor Roosevelt, (pp. 119-120), 1963.

• Each of us has... all the time there is. Those years, weeks, hours, are the sands in the glass running swiftly away. To let them drift through our fingers is tragic waste. To use them to the hilt, making them count for something, is the beginning of wisdom.

  Eleanor Roosevelt

  Running, Glasses, Years

  Eleanor Roosevelt (1960). “You Learn by Living”, p.60, Westminster John Knox Press

• The film industry is a great industry, with infinite possibilities for good and bad. Its primary purpose is to entertain people. On the side, it can do many other things. It can popularize certain ideals, it can make education palatable. But in the long run, the judge who decides whether what it does is good or bad is the man or woman who attends the movies.

  Eleanor Roosevelt

  Running, Men, Judging

  "My Day" Column by Eleanor Roosevelt, www2.gwu.edu. October 29, 1947.

• You get strength and courage, when you stop to look fear in the face.

  Eleanor Roosevelt

  Running, Courage, Faces

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