Eleanor Roosevelt

Eleanor Roosevelt

"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."
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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."
Eleanor Roosevelt
"One's philosophy is not best expressed in words; it is expressed in the choices one makes. 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"
Eleanor Roosevelt
"Don't call a woman a bitch. Call her an ass-hole. It still gets your point across and it's not sexist."
Eleanor Roosevelt
"The reason that fiction is more interesting than any other form of literature, to those who really like to study people, is that in fiction the author can really tell the truth without humiliating himself."
Eleanor Roosevelt
"Do not stop thinking of life as an adventure. You have no security unless you can live bravely, excitingly, imaginatively; unless you can choose a challenge instead of competence."
Eleanor Roosevelt The Autobiography of Eleanor Roosevelt
"You have to accept whatever comes, and the only important thing is that you meet it with the best you have to give."
Eleanor Roosevelt
"With the new day comes new strength and new thoughts."
Eleanor Roosevelt
"Happiness is not a goal...it's a by-product of a life well lived."
Eleanor Roosevelt
"Do one thing every day that scares you."
Eleanor Roosevelt
"Do what you feel in your heart to be right – for you’ll be criticized anyway."
Eleanor Roosevelt
"It is often the people who refuse to assume any responsibility who are apt to be the sharpest critics of those who do."
Eleanor Roosevelt
"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 would be curiosity."
Eleanor Roosevelt
"It takes as much energy to wish as it does to plan."
Eleanor Roosevelt
"...our children must learn...to face full responsibility for their actions, to make their own choices and cope with the results...the whole democratic system...depends upon it. For our system is founded on self-government, which is untenable if the individuals who make up the system are unable to govern themselves."
Eleanor Roosevelt
"...so much attention is paid to the aggressive sins, such as violence and cruelty, and greed with all their tragic effects, that too little attention is paid to the passive sins, such as apathy and laziness, which in the long run can have a more devastating and destructive effect upon society than the others."
Eleanor Roosevelt
"What one has to do usually can be done."
Eleanor Roosevelt
"America is not a pile of goods, more luxury, more comforts, a better telephone system, a greater number of cars. America is a dream of greater justice and opportunity for the average man and, if we can not obtain it, all our otherachievements amount to nothing."
Eleanor Roosevelt
"Character building begins in our infancy and continues until death."
Eleanor Roosevelt
"You not only have a right to be an individual. You have a responsibility."
Eleanor Roosevelt
"We have to make these young people (of the Depression) feel that they are necessary. (They should be given) "certain things for which youth craves – the chance for self-sacrifice for an ideal."
Eleanor Roosevelt
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