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Great minds discuss ideas; average minds discuss events; small minds discuss people.

Great minds discuss ideas; average minds discuss events; small minds discuss people.

Eleanor Roosevelt
Inspirational, Life, Motivational

No one can make you feel inferior without your consent.

Eleanor Roosevelt
Inspirational, Motivational, Happiness
Quoted in Vidette-Messenger (Valparaiso, Ind.), 7 June 1941 See Channing 1

A good leader inspires people to have confidence in the leader, a great leader inspires people to have confidence in themselves.

Eleanor Roosevelt
Inspirational, Leadership, Confidence

For our own success to be real, it must contribute to the success of others.

Eleanor Roosevelt
Success, Stress, Real
Eleanor Roosevelt (2016). “The Moral Basis of Democracy”, p.11, Open Road Media

You gain strength, courage, and confidence by doing the thing which you think you cannot do.

Eleanor Roosevelt
Running, Fear, Cancer

The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams.

Eleanor Roosevelt
Inspirational, Change, Positive
Quoted in Providence Journal-Bulletin, 8 June 1994

A woman is like a tea bag - you can't tell how strong she is until you put her in hot water.

Eleanor Roosevelt
Inspirational, Funny, Strength

I am convinced that every effort must be made in childhood to teach the young to use their own minds. For one thing is sure: If they don't make up their minds, someone will do it for them.

Eleanor Roosevelt
Effort, Childhood, Decision
Eleanor Roosevelt (1960). “You learn by living”, HarperCollins Publishers

Do what you feel in your heart to be right - for you'll be criticized anyway. You'll be damned if you do, and damned if you don't.

Eleanor Roosevelt
Integrity, Heart, Positivity
"How to Stop Worrying and Start Living". Book by Dale Carnegie, 1948.

Tomorrow is a mystery. Today is a gift. That is why it is called the present.

Eleanor Roosevelt
Inspirational, Life, Motivational

We gain strength, and courage, and confidence by each experience in which we really stop to look fear in the face... we must do that which we think we cannot.

Eleanor Roosevelt
Inspirational, Life, Motivational

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

Eleanor Roosevelt
Inspirational, Leadership, Loyalty
Eleanor Roosevelt, David Emblidge (1990). “Eleanor Roosevelt's My Day: The post-war years, her acclaimed columns, 1945-1952”, 1990.

Education is the cornerstone of liberty.

Eleanor Roosevelt
Education, Liberty, Cornerstones

It is better to light a candle than curse the darkness.

Eleanor Roosevelt
Inspirational, Motivational, Leadership

I can't tell you how to succeed, but I can tell you how to fail: Try to please everybody.

Eleanor Roosevelt
Trying, Succeed, Failing

I am who I am today because of the choices I made yesterday.

Eleanor Roosevelt
Inspirational, Cancer, Loving Life
"Seven Habits of Highly Effective People". Book by Steven Covey, 1989.

You wouldn't worry so much about what others think of you if you realized how seldom they do.

Eleanor Roosevelt
Inspirational, Life, Motivational

True patriotism springs from a belief in the dignity of the individual, freedom and equality not only for Americans but for all people on earth, universal brotherhood and good will, and a constant and earnest striving toward the principles and ideals on which this country was founded.

Eleanor Roosevelt
Country, Spring, Patriotic
Eleanor Roosevelt (1962). “Book of common sense etiquette”

Many people will walk in and out of your life, but only true friends will leave footprints in your heart

Eleanor Roosevelt
Friendship, Best Friend, True Friend

Someone once asked me what I regarded as the three most important requirements for happiness. My answer was: A feeling that you have been honest with yourself and those around you; a feeling that you have done the best you could both in your personal life and in your work; and the ability to love others.

Eleanor Roosevelt
Happiness, Feelings, Important
Eleanor Roosevelt (1960). “You Learn by Living”, p.96, Westminster John Knox Press

Some people are going to leave a mark on this world, while others will leave a stain.

Eleanor Roosevelt
People, World, Catchy

Never allow a person to tell you no who doesn't have the power to say yes.

Eleanor Roosevelt
Life, Strength, Encouraging

Do one thing every day that scares you.

Eleanor Roosevelt
Inspirational, Positive, New Year

You can often change your circumstances by changing your attitude

Eleanor Roosevelt
Inspirational, Attitude, Courageous

Courage is more exhilarating than fear and in the long run it is easier. We do not have to become heroes over night. Just a step at a time, meeting each thing that comes up, seeing it is not as dreadful as it appeared, discovering we have the strength to stare it down.

Eleanor Roosevelt
Strength, Being Strong, Running
Eleanor Roosevelt (1960). “You Learn by Living”, p.41, Westminster John Knox Press

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