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Quote by Eleanor Roosevelt
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Great minds discuss ideas average minds discuss events small minds discuss people.
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Eleanor Roosevelt Quotes
- Never allow a person to tell you no who doesn't have the power to say yes.
- 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.
- 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.
- I can not believe that war is the best solution. No one won the last war, and no one will win the next war.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- My experience has been that work is almost the best way to pull oneself out of the depths.
- People grow through experience if they meet life honestly and courageously. This is how character is built.
- The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams.
Best Quotes
- When I did 'Bumble-ardy,' I was so intensely aware of death. Eugene, my friend and partner, was dying here in the house when I did 'Bumble-ardy'. I did 'Bumble-ardy' to save myself. I did not want to die with him. I wanted to live, as any human being does.
- Cross country skiing is great if you live in a small country.
- A man of genius has been seldom ruined but by himself.
- I know that war is very cruel and that life is harder when you aren't able to live in the place you called home.
- Wealth is not without its advantages and the case to the contrary, although it has often been made, has never proved widely persuasive.
- I think kids ought to travel. I think it's very good to carry kids around. It's good for them. Of course it's tough on the parents.
- We are a nation that is unenlightened because of religion. I do believe that. I think religion stops people from thinking. I think it justified crazies.
- The Middle East is ailing. The malady stems from pervasive violence, shortages of food, water and educational opportunities, discrimination against women and - the most virulent cause of all - the absence of freedom.
- Fear attracts attack.
- Life is all memory, except for the one present moment that goes by you so quickly you hardly catch it going.