Wisdom Quotes
Quotations to challenge and inspire

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Eleanor Roosevelt Quotes

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The giving of love is an education in itself.

- Eleanor Roosevelt

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It is not fair to ask of others what you are unwilling to do yourself.

- Eleanor Roosevelt

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I have spent many years of my life in opposition and I rather like the role.

- Eleanor Roosevelt

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Do one thing every day that scares you.

- Eleanor Roosevelt

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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

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Life has got to be lived -- that's all there is to it.

- Eleanor Roosevelt

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Character building begins in our infancy, and continues until death.

- Eleanor Roosevelt

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

- Eleanor Roosevelt

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

- Eleanor Roosevelt

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

- Eleanor Roosevelt

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When will our consciences grow so tender that we will act to prevent human misery rather than avenge it?

- Eleanor Roosevelt

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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.

- Eleanor Roosevelt

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Friendship with oneself is all important because without it one cannot be friends with anybody else in the world.

- Eleanor Roosevelt

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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.

- Eleanor Roosevelt

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I could not, at any age, be content to take my place by the fireside and simply look on. Life was meant to be lived. Curiosity must be kept alive. One must never, for whatever reason, turn his back on life.

- Eleanor Roosevelt

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You must do the things you think you cannot do.

- Eleanor Roosevelt

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You gain strength, courage, and confidence by every experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face. You must do the thing which you think you cannot do.

- Eleanor Roosevelt

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