Eleanor Roosevelt Quotes - Page 7

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• We all create the person we become by our choices as we go through life. In a real sense, by the time we are adults, we are the sum total of the choices we have made.

  Eleanor Roosevelt

  Real, Choices, Accountability

  Eleanor Roosevelt (1960). “You Learn by Living”, p.151, Westminster John Knox Press

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• No human being can ever 'own' another, whether in friendship, love, marriage, or parenthood.

  Eleanor Roosevelt

  Friendship Love, Marriage Love, Parenthood

  Eleanor Roosevelt (1962). “Book of common sense etiquette”

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• A great deal of fear is a result of just “not knowing.” We do not know what is involved in a new situation. We do not know whether we can deal with it. The sooner we learn what it entails, the sooner we can dissolve our fear.

  Eleanor Roosevelt

  Inspirational, Knowing, Courageous

  Eleanor Roosevelt (1960). “You Learn by Living”, p.34, Westminster John Knox Press

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• Develop a skin as thick as a rhinoceros hide!

  Eleanor Roosevelt

  Skins, Thick, Rhinoceros

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• The kind of man who thinks that helping with the dishes is beneath him will also think that helping with the baby is beneath him, and then he certainly is not going to be a very successful father.

  Eleanor Roosevelt

  Fathers Day, Baby, Successful

  Eleanor Roosevelt (1946). “If You Ask Me”

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• This is a time for action — not for war, but for mobilization of every bit of peace machinery.

  Eleanor Roosevelt

  Peace, War, Action

  Eleanor Roosevelt, David Emblidge (2001). “My Day: The Best of Eleanor Roosevelt's Acclaimed Newspaper Columns, 1936-1962”, p.211, Da Capo Press

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• Women are like tea bags: put them in hot water and they get stronger.

  Eleanor Roosevelt

  Inspirational, Courage, Water

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• The American Dream can no more remain static than can the American nation.... We cannot any longer take an old approach to world problems. They aren't the same problems. It isn't the same world. We must not adopt the methods of our ancestors; instead, we must emulate that pioneer quality in our ancestors that made them attempt new methods for a New World.

  Eleanor Roosevelt

  Dream, America, Quality

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• 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.

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• Only a man's character is the real criterion of worth.

  Eleanor Roosevelt

  Real, Character, Men

  Eleanor Roosevelt, David Emblidge (2009). “My Day: The Best of Eleanor Roosevelt's Acclaimed Newspaper Columns, 1936-1962”, p.93, Da Capo Press

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• It is always disagreeable to take stands. It is always easier to compromise, always easier to let things go. To many women, and I am one of them, it is extraordinarily difficult to care about anything enough to cause disagreement or unpleasant feelings, but I have come to the conclusion that this must be done for a time until we can prove our strength and demand respect for our wishes. We cannot even be of real service in the coming campaign and speak as a united body of women unless we have the respect of men and show that when we express a wish, we are willing to stand by it.

  Eleanor Roosevelt

  Real, Men, Feelings

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

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• Anyone who thinks must think of the next war as they would of suicide.

  Eleanor Roosevelt

  Suicide, War, Thinking

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• The only joy in this hard life is serving others.

  Eleanor Roosevelt

  Joy, Hard Life, Life Is

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• I think that somehow, we learn who we really are and then live with that decision.

  Eleanor Roosevelt

  Life, Self Esteem, Thinking

  "Peter's Quotations : Ideas for Our Time" by Laurence J. Peter, (p. 5), 1972.

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• The giving of love and understanding is an education in itself.

  Eleanor Roosevelt

  Love, Inspiring, Teacher

  "Your Teens and Mine".

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• Women are like tea bags.They do not know how strong they are until they get into hot water.

  Eleanor Roosevelt

  Strong, Water, Tea

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• The purpose of life afterall is to live it.

  Eleanor Roosevelt

  Purpose, Purpose Of Life

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

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• If many of our young people have lost the excitement of the early settlers, who had a country to explore and develop, it is because no one remembers to tell them that the world has never been so challenging, so exciting... Perhaps the older generation is often to blame with its cautious warning: “Take a job that will give you security, not adventure.” But I say to the young: “Do not stop thinking of life as an adventure. You have no security unless you can live bravely, excitingly, and imaginatively; unless you can choose a challenge instead of a competence.

  Eleanor Roosevelt

  Country, Jobs, Adventure

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• All the water in the world cannot drown you unless it gets inside of you.

  Eleanor Roosevelt

  Water, World

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• For all of us, as we grow older, perhaps the most important thing is to keep alive our love of others and to believe that our love and interest are as vitally necessary to them as to us. This is what makes us keep on growing and refills the fountains of energy.

  Eleanor Roosevelt

  Believe, Important, Energy

  Eleanor Roosevelt (1995). “What I Hope to Leave Behind: The Essential Essays of Eleanor Roosevelt”, Carlson Pub

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• There is nothing to fear except fear it's self.

  Eleanor Roosevelt

  Inspirational, Self, Courageous

  "2012 Crossing Over: A New Beginning". Documentary, www.imdb.com. 2012.

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• Success must include two things: the development of an individual to his utmost potentiality and a contribution of some kind to one's world.

  Eleanor Roosevelt

  Two, Development, World

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

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• I carried it (a revolver) religiously and during the summer I asked a friend, a man who had been one of Franklin's bodyguards in New York State, to give me some practice in target shooting so that if the need arose I would know how to use the gun.

  Eleanor Roosevelt

  Summer, New York, Men

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• When life is too easy for us, we must beware or we may not be ready to meet the blows which sooner or later come to everyone, rich or poor.

  Eleanor Roosevelt

  Life, Blow, Rich Or Poor

  Eleanor Roosevelt, David Emblidge (1989). “Eleanor Roosevelt's My Day: Her Acclaimed Columns, 1936-1945”

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• I know that we will be the sufferers if we let great wrongs occur without exerting ourselves to correct them.

  Eleanor Roosevelt

  Ifs, Knows, Sufferers

  Eleanor Roosevelt, David Emblidge (2009). “My Day: The Best of Eleanor Roosevelt's Acclaimed Newspaper Columns, 1936-1962”, p.83, Da Capo Press

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