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To leave the world richer—that is the ultimate success.
Eleanor Roosevelt
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Eleanor Roosevelt
Age: 78 †
Born: 1884
Born: October 11
Died: 1962
Died: November 7
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Diplomat
Feminist
Former First Lady Of The United States
Human Rights Activist
Journalist
Peace Activist
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Manhattan borough
New York City
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Since everybody is an individual, nobody can be you. You are unique. No one can tell you how to use your time. It is yours. Your life is your own. You mold it. You make it.
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The Marines I have seen around the world have the cleanest bodies, the filthiest minds, the highest morale, and the lowest morals of any group of animals I have ever seen. Thank God for the United States Marine Corps!
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The trouble is that not enough people have come together with the firm determination to live the things which they say they believe.
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To most teenagers, life is a strange uncharted land filled with a mixture of new joys, intensely felt, and painful confusions for which they know no anodyne.
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Mozart, who was buried in a pauper’s grave, was one of the greatest successes we know of, a man who in his early thirties had poured out his inexhaustible gift of music, leaving the world richer because he had passed that way. To leave the world richer—that is the ultimate success.
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Nothing has ever been achieved by the person who says, ‘It can’t be done.’
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It is our freedom to progress that makes us all want to live and to go on.
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People can only make you inferior with your consent.
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Never be bored, and you will never be boring.
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Do one thing everyday that scares you. Those small things that make us uncomfortable help us build courage to do the work we do.
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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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I was perfectly certain that I had nothing to offer of an individual nature and that my only chance of doing my duty as the wife of a public official was to do exactly as the majority of women were doing.
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The mobilization of world opinion and methods of negotiation should be developed and used by every nation in order to strengthen the United Nations.
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Poor minds talk about people average minds talk about events great minds talk about ideas
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Nobody else is going to do the things which are yours to be done in the world.
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Marriage and the up-bringing of children in the home require as well-trained a mind and as well-disciplined a character as any other occupation that might be considered a career.
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Once your children are grown up and have children of their own, the problems are theirs and the less the older generation interferes the better.
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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.
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For our own success to be real, it must contribute to the success of others.
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It takes as much energy to wish as it does to plan.
Eleanor Roosevelt
