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"42 Eleanor Roosevelt Quotes & Sayings

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Born: 11 October 1884. Died: 7 November 1962 | Diplomat | Activist | First Lady |

A woman is like a tea bag; you never know how strong it is until it's in hot water.

Woman Strong Hot Teabag
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With the new day comes new strength and new thoughts.

Day New New Day Strength
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The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams.
Beauty Believe Belongs Dreams
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Great minds discuss ideas; average minds discuss events; small minds discuss people.
Average Discuss Events Great
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You must do the things you think you cannot do.

Cannot Must Things Think
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When you cease to make a contribution, you begin to die.

Begin Cease Contribution Die
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A woman is like a tea bag - you can't tell how strong she is until you put her in hot water.

Bag Her Hot Hot Water
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It is not fair to ask of others what you are not willing to do yourself.

Ask Fair Not Fair Others
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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.

Choices Die Ends Lives
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Remember always that you not only have the right to be an individual, you have an obligation to be one.

Always Individual Obligation Only
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People grow through experience if they meet life honestly and courageously. This is how character is built.

Built Character Courageously Experience
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You can never really live anyone else's life, not even your child's. The influence you exert is through your own life, and what you've become yourself.

Anyone Become Else Even
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Happiness is not a goal; it is a by-product.

By-Product A Goal Happiness
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Do what you feel in your heart to be right- for you'll be criticized anyway. You'll be damned if you do, and damned if you don't.

Anyway Criticized Feel Heart
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Justice cannot be for one side alone, but must be for both.

Both Cannot Justice Must
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We are afraid to care too much, for fear that the other person does not care at all.

Afraid Care Does Fear
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The only things one can admire at length are those one admires without knowing why.

Admire Admires Knowing Length
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Ambition is pitiless. Any merit that it cannot use it finds despicable.

Ambition Any Cannot Despicable
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Actors are one family over the entire world.
Actor Entire Entire World Family
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A little simplification would be the first step toward rational living, I think.

Be The First First First Step I Think
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It is not more vacation we need - it is more vocation.

More Need Vacation Vocation
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Life must be lived and curiosity kept alive. One must never, for whatever reason, turn his back on life.

Alive Back Curiosity His
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Only a man's character is the real criterion of worth.

Character Criterion Man Only
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The Bible illustrated by Dore occupied many of my hours - and I think probably gave me many nightmares.

Bible Gave Hours I Think
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There are practical little things in housekeeping which no man really understands.

Housekeeping Little Little Things Practical
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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.

Beware Blows Come Easy
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It isn't enough to talk about peace. One must believe in it. And it isn't enough to believe in it. One must work at it.

About Believe Enough Must
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Understanding is a two-way street.

Street Two Way Two Way Street Understanding
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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.

Always Back Behavior Campaign
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Hate and force cannot be in just a part of the world without having an effect on the rest of it.

Cannot Effect Force Hate
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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.

Anything Battle Countenance Individual
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I used to tell my husband that, if he could make me 'understand' something, it would be clear to all the other people in the country.

Clear Could Country He
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As for accomplishments, I just did what I had to do as things came along.

Accomplishments Along Came Did
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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.

Any Anyone Arrangement Domination
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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.

After Bed Catalogue Description
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The giving of love is an education in itself.
Education Giving Itself Love
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No one can make you feel inferior without your consent.
Consent Feel Inferior Make
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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.

Ask Birth Child Could
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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.

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

Anyone Anyone Else Because Cannot
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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.

Accept According Change Done Fast
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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 his own weight, this is a frightening prospect.

Carry Does Every Freedom
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Eleanor Roosevelt Quotes & Sayings