Eleanor Roosevelt
Old age has deformities enough of its own. It should never add to them the deformity of vice.
-Eleanor Roosevelt
age
Probably the happiest period in life most frequently is in middle age, when the eager passions of youth are cooled, and the infirmities of age not yet begun as we see that the shadows, which are at morning and evening so large, almost entirely disappear at midday.
-Eleanor Roosevelt
age
Justice cannot be for one side alone, but must be for both.
-Eleanor Roosevelt
alone
The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams.
-Eleanor Roosevelt
beauty
You have to accept whatever comes and the only important thing is that you meet it with courage and with the best that you have to give.
-Eleanor Roosevelt
best
One's philosophy is not best expressed in words it is expressed in the choices one makes... and the choices we make are ultimately our responsibility.
-Eleanor Roosevelt
best
My experience has been that work is almost the best way to pull oneself out of the depths.
-Eleanor Roosevelt
best
I can not believe that war is the best solution. No one won the last war, and no one will win the next war.
-Eleanor Roosevelt
best
Perhaps nature is our best assurance of immortality.
-Eleanor Roosevelt
best
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 should be curiosity.
-Eleanor Roosevelt
birthday
Campaign behavior for wives: Always be on time. Do as little talking as humanly possible. Lean back in the parade car so everybody can see the president.
-Eleanor Roosevelt
car
You can't move so fast that you try to change the mores faster than people can accept it. That doesn't mean you do nothing, but it means that you do the things that need to be done according to priority.
-Eleanor Roosevelt
change
You gain strength, courage, and confidence by every experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face. You are able to say to yourself, 'I lived through this horror. I can take the next thing that comes along.'
-Eleanor Roosevelt
courage
We gain strength, and courage, and confidence by each experience in which we really stop to look fear in the face... we must do that which we think we cannot.
-Eleanor Roosevelt
courage
You have to accept whatever comes and the only important thing is that you meet it with courage and with the best that you have to give.
-Eleanor Roosevelt
courage
The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams.
-Eleanor Roosevelt
dreams
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.
-Eleanor Roosevelt
education
The giving of love is an education in itself.
-Eleanor Roosevelt
education
People grow through experience if they meet life honestly and courageously. This is how character is built.
-Eleanor Roosevelt
experience
We gain strength, and courage, and confidence by each experience in which we really stop to look fear in the face... we must do that which we think we cannot.
-Eleanor Roosevelt
experience
You gain strength, courage, and confidence by every experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face. You are able to say to yourself, 'I lived through this horror. I can take the next thing that comes along.'
-Eleanor Roosevelt
experience
I believe that anyone can conquer fear by doing the things he fears to do, provided he keeps doing them until he gets a record of successful experience behind him.
-Eleanor Roosevelt
experience
My experience has been that work is almost the best way to pull oneself out of the depths.
-Eleanor Roosevelt
experience
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.
-Eleanor Roosevelt
faith
Actors are one family over the entire world.
-Eleanor Roosevelt
family
We gain strength, and courage, and confidence by each experience in which we really stop to look fear in the face... we must do that which we think we cannot.
-Eleanor Roosevelt
fear
You gain strength, courage, and confidence by every experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face. You are able to say to yourself, 'I lived through this horror. I can take the next thing that comes along.'
-Eleanor Roosevelt
fear
We are afraid to care too much, for fear that the other person does not care at all.
-Eleanor Roosevelt
fear
I believe that anyone can conquer fear by doing the things he fears to do, provided he keeps doing them until he gets a record of successful experience behind him.
-Eleanor Roosevelt
fear
Freedom makes a huge requirement of every human being. With freedom comes responsibility. For the person who is unwilling to grow up, the person who does not want to carry is own weight, this is a frightening prospect.
-Eleanor Roosevelt
freedom
Friendship with ones self is all important, because without it one cannot be friends with anyone else in the world.
-Eleanor Roosevelt
friendship
The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams.
-Eleanor Roosevelt
future
I once had a rose named after me and I was very flattered. But I was not pleased to read the description in the catalogue: no good in a bed, but fine up against a wall.
-Eleanor Roosevelt
good
Since you get more joy out of giving joy to others, you should put a good deal of thought into the happiness that you are able to give.
-Eleanor Roosevelt
good
The only advantage of not being too good a housekeeper is that your guests are so pleased to feel how very much better they are.
-Eleanor Roosevelt
good
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.
-Eleanor Roosevelt
government
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