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Eleanor Roosevelt [1884-1962]
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Anne Eleanor Roosevelt was the wife of Franklin Delano Roosevelt from 1905 to his death in 1945 and greatly expanded the role of First Lady; after widowhood, she began a career as a diplomat, with appointments to various roles at the United Nations.
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You must do the thing [that] you think you cannot do. {Issue #42}
The giving of love is an education in itself. {Issue #71}
Small people talk of other people, average people talk of things, great people talk of ideas. {blog 10/2007}
When will our consciences grow so tender that we will act to prevent human misery rather than avenge it? {blog 12/2007}
The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams. {blog 9/2009}
If life were predictable it would cease to be life, and be without flavor. {blog 9/2011}
Remember always that you not only have the right to be an individual, you have an obligation to be one. {blog 12/2012}
It takes as much energy to wish as it does to plan. {blog 11/2013}
You wouldn't worry so much about what others think of you if you realized how seldom they do. {blog 11/2013}
No one can make you feel inferior without your consent. {blog 1/2014}
The purpose of life is to live it, to taste experience to the utmost, to reach out eagerly and without fear
for newer and richer experience. {blog 4/2014}
To handle yourself, use your head; to handle others, use your heart. {blog 4/2015}
The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams. {blog 11/2016}
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. {blog 9/2017}
Be confident, not certain. {blog 3/2018}
You have to accept whatever comes, and the only important thing is that you meet it with the best [that] you have to give. {blog 7/2018}
Many people will walk in and out of your life, but only true friends will leave footprints in your heart. {blog 10/2018}
The giving of love is an education in itself. {blog 12/2019}
Once I had a rose named after me and I was very flattered. But I was not pleased to read the description in the catalog:
'No good in a bed, but fine up against a wall'. {blog 10/2022}
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. {blog 4/2024}
Eleanor Roosevelt Quotations Not Yet Used on Blog
"Do one thing every day that scares you."
"A good leader inspires people to have confidence in the leader, a great leader inspires people to have confidence in themselves."
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