Men are not prisoners of fate, but only prisoners of their own minds.
Quote by Franklin D. Roosevelt
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Men are not prisoners of fate, but only prisoners of their own minds.
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Franklin D. Roosevelt Quotes
- A conservative is a man with two perfectly good legs who, however, has never learned how to walk forward.
- Favor comes because for a brief moment in the great space of human change and progress some general human purpose finds in him a satisfactory embodiment.
- We continue to recognize the greater ability of some to earn more than others. But we do assert that the ambition of the individual to obtain for him a proper security is an ambition to be preferred to the appetite for great wealth and great power.
- Put two or three men in positions of conflicting authority. This will force them to work at loggerheads, allowing you to be the ultimate arbiter.
- True individual freedom cannot exist without economic security and independence. People who are hungry and out of a job are the stuff of which dictatorships are made.
- If civilization is to survive, we must cultivate the science of human relationships - the ability of all peoples, of all kinds, to live together, in the same world at peace.
- A nation that destroys its soils destroys itself. Forests are the lungs of our land, purifying the air and giving fresh strength to our people.
- If you treat people right they will treat you right... ninety percent of the time.
- Physical strength can never permanently withstand the impact of spiritual force.
- Democracy cannot succeed unless those who express their choice are prepared to choose wisely. The real safeguard of democracy, therefore, is education.
Best Quotes
- New York City is a great monument to the power of money and greed... a race for rent.
- Government always finds a need for whatever money it gets.
- I don't care what people say about my relationship I don't care what they say about my boobs. People are buying my songs I have a sold-out tour. I'm getting incredible feedback from my music.
- I decided, very early on, just to accept life unconditionally I never expected it to do anything special for me, yet I seemed to accomplish far more than I had ever hoped. Most of the time it just happened to me without my ever seeking it.
- Happiness is brief. It will not stay. God batters at its sails.
- The moment you have in your heart this extraordinary thing called love and feel the depth, the delight, the ecstasy of it, you will discover that for you the world is transformed.
- Of all escape mechanisms, death is the most efficient.
- Self discipline is that which, next to virtue, truly and essentially raises one man above another.
- If men can develop weapons that are so terrifying as to make the thought of global war include almost a sentence for suicide, you would think that man's intelligence and his comprehension... would include also his ability to find a peaceful solution.
- Just because everyone can, doesn't mean they should.