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Eleanor Roosevelt Inspirational Quotes (291)

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Think as little as possible about yourself and as much as possible about other people.
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It's your life-but only if you make it so.
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No human being can ever own another, whether in friendship, love, marriage or parenthood. Many human relationships have been ruined and happiness far too often changed to misery by a failure to understand this.
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It is very difficult to have a free, fair and honest press anywhere in the world. In the first place, as a rule, papers are largely supported by advertising, and that immediately gives the advertisers a certain hold over the medium they use.
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Some people are going to leave a mark on this world, while others will leave a stain.
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Enjoy every minute you have with those you love, my dear, for no one can take joy that is past away from you. It will be there in your heart to live on when the dark days come.
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Those of us who believe in the right of any human being to belong to whatever church he sees fit, and to worship God in his own way, cannot be accused of prejudice when we do not want to see public education connected with religious control of the schools, which are paid for by taxpayers' money.
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Character building begins in our infancy and continues until death.
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the greatest luxury I know is sitting up reading in bed.
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Life is like a parachute jump, you've got to get it right the first time.
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You can't move so fast that you try to change the mores faster than people can accept it.
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In all our contacts it is probably the sense of being really needed and wanted which gives us the greatest satisfaction and creates the most lasting bond.
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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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Nothing alive can stand still, it goes forward or back. Life is interesting only as long as it is a process of growth or, to put it another way, we can only grow as long as we are interested.
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If man is to be liberated to enjoy more leisure, he must also be prepared to enjoy this leisure fully and creatively.
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the term 'young adults' which is so often used today seems to me a misnomer, and one which, if taken seriously, may lead the adolescent into misunderstanding as to his nature and his role in life. 'Young he is 'adult' he is not.
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No man is defeated without until he has first been defeated within.
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The word liberal comes from the word free. We must cherish and honor the word free or it will cease to apply to us.
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I think the thing we must look for actually is a growth in our people and in whoever comes in a quality of courage to tell our people just what world conditions are.
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When you cease to make a contribution, you begin to die.
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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.
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What one has to do usually can be done.
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The purpose of life afterall is to live it.
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We have reached a point today where labor-saving devices are good only when they do not throw the worker out of his job.
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