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Perhaps the basic thing which contributes to charm is the ability to forget oneself and be engrossed in other people.

Perhaps the basic thing which contributes to charm is the ability to forget oneself and be engrossed in other people.

Eleanor Roosevelt
People, Forget, Charm

talking too much is a far greater social fault than talking too little.

Eleanor Roosevelt
Talking, Littles, Too Much
Eleanor Roosevelt (1962). “Book of common sense etiquette”

Furnish an example, stop preaching, stop shielding, don't prevent self-reliance and initiative, allow your children to develop along thier own lines.

Eleanor Roosevelt
Mom, Mother, Children

This is a strange, little, complacent country [Switzerland], in many ways a USA in miniature but of course nearer the center of disturbance!

Eleanor Roosevelt
Country, Usa, Switzerland

the greatest luxury I know is sitting up reading in bed.

Eleanor Roosevelt
Reading, Luxury, Bed
Eleanor Roosevelt (1938). “My Days”

No one is all-knowing and therefore all of us need both love and charity.

Eleanor Roosevelt
Life, Mature Person, Knowing
Eleanor Roosevelt (1954). “It seems to me”

Remember, no one can make you feel inferior without being related to you and repeatedly questioning why you're in nonprofit.

Eleanor Roosevelt
Questioning Why, Nonprofits, Remember

I shall either find a way, or make one (attributed)

Eleanor Roosevelt
Inspirational, Life, Tattoo

To be mature you have to realize what you value most... Not to arrive at a clear understanding of one's own values is a tragic waste. You have missed the whole point of what life is for.

Eleanor Roosevelt
Understanding, Waste, Realizing

A respect for the rights of other peoples to determine their forms of government and their economy will not weaken our democracy. It will inevitably strengthen it.

Eleanor Roosevelt
Government, Rights, Democracy

I'm sure that all the drivers and motorcycle police had once been racing drivers and were eager to get back to that profession.

Eleanor Roosevelt
Police, Motorcycle, Racing
Eleanor Roosevelt (2015). “On My Own: The Years Since The White House”, p.135, Pickle Partners Publishing

Anyone who has gone through great suffering is bound to have a greater sympathy and understanding of the problems of mankind.

Eleanor Roosevelt
Helping Others, Understanding, Suffering

...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
Running, Long, Greed
Eleanor Roosevelt (1960). “You Learn by Living”, p.153, Westminster John Knox Press

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.

Eleanor Roosevelt
Giving, Use, World
Eleanor Roosevelt (1946). “If You Ask Me”

what we need in the world is manners ... I think that if, instead of preaching brotherly love, we preached good manners, we might get a little further. It sounds less righteous and more practical.

Eleanor Roosevelt
Thinking, Good Man, World
Eleanor Roosevelt (1938). “My Days”

So I took an interest in politics, but I don't know whether I enjoyed it! It was a wife's duty to be interested in whatever interested her husband, whether it was politics, books, or a particular dish for dinner.

Eleanor Roosevelt
Husband, Book, Wife

Franklin [D. Roosevelt] had a good way of simplifying things. He made people feel that he had a real understanding of things and they felt they had about the same understanding.

Eleanor Roosevelt
Real, People, Understanding

Old age has deformities enough of its own. It should never add to them the deformity of vice.

Eleanor Roosevelt
Funny Relationship, Age, Vices

...no matter how avid they themselves may be for praise and appreciation, people are often niggardly in giving it to others, however merited it is.

Eleanor Roosevelt
Appreciation, Avid, People
Eleanor Roosevelt (1960). “You learn by living”, HarperCollins Publishers

practically nothing we do ever stands by itself. If it is good, it will serve some good purpose in the future. If it is evil, it may haunt us and handicap our efforts in unimagined ways.

Eleanor Roosevelt
Evil, Effort, Purpose
Eleanor Roosevelt (1961). “Autobiography”

Choose a challenge instead of competence

Eleanor Roosevelt
Challenges, Competence
Eleanor Roosevelt, Allida Mae Black (2013). “Courage in a Dangerous World: The Political Writings of Eleanor Roosevelt”, p.230, Columbia University Press

I wonder if Communists occupied in producing plays are not safer than Communists starving to death. I have always felt that whatever your beliefs might be, if you could earn enough to keep body and soul together and had to be pretty busy doing that, you would not be very apt to have time to plot the overthrow of any existing government.

Eleanor Roosevelt
Government, Play, Political
Eleanor Roosevelt, David Emblidge (2009). “My Day: The Best of Eleanor Roosevelt's Acclaimed Newspaper Columns, 1936-1962”, p.39, Da Capo Press

I have learned long ago to possess my soul in patience and accept the inevitable.

Eleanor Roosevelt
Long Ago, Soul, Accepting
Eleanor Roosevelt, David Emblidge (1989). “Eleanor Roosevelt's My Day: Her Acclaimed Columns, 1936-1945”

Poverty is an expensive luxury. We cannot afford it.

Eleanor Roosevelt
Luxury, Poverty, Expensive

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.

Eleanor Roosevelt
Religious, Believe, School
Eleanor Roosevelt, Allida Mae Black (2013). “Courage in a Dangerous World: The Political Writings of Eleanor Roosevelt”, p.253, Columbia University Press

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