Eleanor Roosevelt Quotes - Page 6

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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. But if you have more projects than you have time for, you are not going to be an unhappy person. This is as much a question of having imagination and curiosity as it is of actually making plans.

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  Unhappy Person, Knowing, People

  Eleanor Roosevelt (1960). “You Learn by Living”, p.55, Westminster John Knox Press

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• Your ambition should be to get as much life out of living as you possibly can, as much enjoyment, as much interest, as much experience, as much understanding. Not simply be what is generally called a 'success.'

  Eleanor Roosevelt

  Ambition, Understanding, Should

  Eleanor Roosevelt (1960). “You Learn by Living”, p.118, Westminster John Knox Press

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• What you don't do can be a destructive force.

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  Choices, Force, Destructive

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• Where, after all, do universal human rights begin? In small places, close to home - so close and so small that they cannot be seen on any maps of the world. Yet they are the world of the individual person...Withou t concerted citizen action to uphold them close to home, we shall look in vain for progress in the larger world.

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  Home, Rights, Progress

  Remarks at presentation of booklet on human rights, In Your Hands, to the United Nations Commission on Human Rights, United Nations, New York, March 27, 1958.

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• We will never have peace without friendship around the world.

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  World, Around The World

  Eleanor Roosevelt, David Emblidge (2009). “My Day: The Best of Eleanor Roosevelt's Acclaimed Newspaper Columns, 1936-1962”, p.103, Da Capo Press

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• When you cease to make a contribution, you begin to die.

  Eleanor Roosevelt

  Inspirational, Life, Happiness

  Quoted in Joseph P. Lash, Eleanor: The Years Alone (1972)

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• We must know what we think and speak out, even at the risk of unpopularity.

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  Thinking, Speaks Out, Risk

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

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• As for accomplishments, I just did what I had to do as things came along.

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  Motivational, Accomplishment, Political

  Joseph P. Lash, Eleanor Roosevelt (1984). “A World of Love: Eleanor Roosevelt and Her Friends, 1943-1962”, Doubleday Books

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• The trouble is that not enough people have come together with the firm determination to live the things which they say they believe.

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  Determination, Believe, Justice

  Eleanor Roosevelt (1960). “You Learn by Living”, p.129, Westminster John Knox Press

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• I think if the people of this country can be reached with the truth, their judgment will be in favor of the many, as against the privileged few

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  Country, Thinking, People

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• America is all about speed. Hot, nasty, bad-ass speed.

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  Bad Ass, America, Hot

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• The mind must be trained, rather than the memory.

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  Memories, Mind

  Eleanor Roosevelt (2012). “Tomorrow Is Now: It Is Today That We Must Create the World of the Future”, p.103, Penguin

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• Anyone who knows history, particularly the history of Europe, will, I think, recognize that the domination of education or of government by any one particular religious faith is never a happy arrangement for the people.

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  Happiness, Faith, Education

  Eleanor Roosevelt, Allida Mae Black (2013). “Courage in a Dangerous World: The Political Writings of Eleanor Roosevelt”, p.258, Columbia University Press

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• It takes courage to love, but pain through love is the purifying fire which those who love generously know. We all know people who are so much afraid of pain that they shut themselves up like clams in a shell and, giving out nothing, receive nothing and therefore shrink until life is a mere living death.

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  Love, Life, Inspiring

  Eleanor Roosevelt, David Emblidge (2009). “My Day: The Best of Eleanor Roosevelt's Acclaimed Newspaper Columns, 1936-1962”, p.36, Da Capo Press

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• If we want a free and peaceful world, if we want to make the deserts bloom and man grow to greater dignity as a human being - we can do it.

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  Inspirational, Peace, Men

  Eleanor Roosevelt (2012). “Tomorrow Is Now: It Is Today That We Must Create the World of the Future”, p.159, Penguin

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• It is not that you set the individual apart from society but that you recognize in any society that the individual must have rights that are guarded.

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  Rights, President, Individual

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• On the whole our armed services have been doing pretty well in the way of keeping us defended, but I hope our State Department will remember that it is really the department of achieving peace.

  Eleanor Roosevelt

  Way, Remember, Achieve

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• Friends, you and me... you brought another friend... and then there were three... we started our group... our circle of friends... and like that circle... there is no beginning or end.

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  Circles, Groups, Three

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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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  Love, Inspirational, Pain

  Eleanor Roosevelt, David Emblidge (2009). “My Day: The Best of Eleanor Roosevelt's Acclaimed Newspaper Columns, 1936-1962”, p.36, Da Capo Press

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• As life developed, I faced each problem as it came along. As my activities and work broadened and reached out, I never tried to shirk. I tried never to evade an issue. When I found I had something to do--I just did it.

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  Courage, Work, Issues

  Joseph P. Lash, Eleanor Roosevelt (1982). “Love, Eleanor: Eleanor Roosevelt and Her Friends”, Doubleday Books

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• The battle for the individual rights of women is one of long standing and none of us should countenance anything which undermines it.

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  Rights, Long, Political

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• Courage is exhilarating.

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  Inspirational, Courageous, Exhilarating

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• To leave the world richer—that is the ultimate success.

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  World, Ultimate Success, Ultimate

  Eleanor Roosevelt (1960). “You Learn by Living”, p.119, Westminster John Knox Press

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• I have spent many years of my life in opposition, and I rather like the role.

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  Life Lesson, Years, Roles

  Eleanor Roosevelt, Allida Mae Black (2012). “The Eleanor Roosevelt Papers: The human rights years, 1949-1952”, Eleanor Roosevelt Papers

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• Friendship with ones self is all important, because without it one cannot be friends with anyone else in the world.

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  Friendship, Relationship, Positive

  "The Beacon Book of Quotations by Women" by Rosalie Maggio, p. 130, 1992.

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