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Of course Mahatma Gandhi you might say did not have so much physical vigor but he certainly seemed to have extraordinary resistance, which perhaps is rather different from physical vigor.

Of course Mahatma Gandhi you might say did not have so much physical vigor but he certainly seemed to have extraordinary resistance, which perhaps is rather different from physical vigor.

Eleanor Roosevelt
Different, Vigor, Might
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The choices we make are ultimately our responsibility.

Eleanor Roosevelt
Being Yourself, Responsibility, Personal Accountability
Eleanor Roosevelt (1960). “You Learn by Living”, p.12, Westminster John Knox Press

Do one thing everyday that scares you. Those small things that make us uncomfortable help us build courage to do the work we do.

Eleanor Roosevelt
Everyday, Scare, Helping

Strength that goes wrong is even more dangerous than weakness that goes wrong.

Eleanor Roosevelt
Strength, Weakness, Dangerous
Eleanor Roosevelt (1991). “Eleanor Roosevelt's My Day: First lady of the world, her acclaimed columns, 1953-1962”

Smearing good people like Lauchlin Currie [former administrative assistant to President Roosevelt], Alger Hiss and others is, I think, unforgiveable... Anyone knowing Mr. Currie or Mr. Hiss, who are the two people whom I happen to know fairly well, would not need any denial on their part to know they are not Communists. Their records prove it.

Eleanor Roosevelt
Thinking, Knowing, Two

My life can be so arranged that I can live on whatever I have. If I cannot live as I have lived in the past, I shall live differently, and living differently does not mean living with less attention to the things that make life gracious and pleasant or with less enjoyment of things of the mind.

Eleanor Roosevelt
Mean, Past, Mind

We stand today at the threshold of a great event both in the life of the United Nations and in the life of mankind. This declaration may well become the international Magna Carta for all men everywhere. We hope its proclamation by the General Assembly will be an event comparable to the proclamation in 1789 [of the French Declaration of the Rights of Man], the adoption of the Bill of Rights by the people of the U.S., and the adoption of comparable declarations at different times in other countries.

Eleanor Roosevelt
Country, Men, Rights

The morality of a [political] party must grow out of the conscience and the participation of the voters.

Eleanor Roosevelt
Party, Political, Voters
Eleanor Roosevelt (1961). “Autobiography”

If man is to be liberated to enjoy more leisure, he must also be prepared to enjoy this leisure fully and creatively.

Eleanor Roosevelt
Men, Leisure, Enjoy
Eleanor Roosevelt, David Emblidge (2009). “My Day: The Best of Eleanor Roosevelt's Acclaimed Newspaper Columns, 1936-1962”, p.265, Da Capo Press

All big things in human history have been arrived at slowly and through many compromises.

Eleanor Roosevelt
Compromise, Bigs, Humans

Nothing was ever accomplished by anyone who said 'It can't be done.'

Eleanor Roosevelt
Done, Said, Accomplished

The constant pressure to bring about conformity is a dangerous thing.

Eleanor Roosevelt
Pressure, Conformity, Dangerous
Eleanor Roosevelt (1960). “You learn by living”, HarperCollins Publishers

Life was meant to be lived.

Eleanor Roosevelt
Strong Women, Inspirational Life, Were Meant To Be
The Autobiography of Eleanor Roosevelt preface (1961)

You [future first ladies] will feel that you are no longer clothing yourself, you are dressing a public monument.

Eleanor Roosevelt
Future, Firsts, First Lady

You in the unions do not yet represent all of labor. But I hope some day you will, because I believe that it is through strength, through the fact that people who know what people need are working to make this country a better place for all people, that we will help the world to accept our leadership and understand that, under our form of government and through our way of life, we have something to offer them.

Eleanor Roosevelt
Strength, Country, Believe

Democracy cannot be static. Whatever is static is dead.

Eleanor Roosevelt
Justice, Diversity, Democracy
Eleanor Roosevelt (1995). “What I Hope to Leave Behind: The Essential Essays of Eleanor Roosevelt”, Carlson Pub

There are no have-to's, just choices

Eleanor Roosevelt
Inspirational, Choices, Courageous

More people are ruined by victory, I imagine, than be defeat.

Eleanor Roosevelt
Inspirational, People, Victory
Eleanor Roosevelt (1938). “My Days”

You should always own a black dress because no one ever remembers a black dress.

Eleanor Roosevelt
Black, Dresses, Remember

No one from the beginning of time has had security.

Eleanor Roosevelt
Adventure, Security

Perhaps in His wisdom the Almighty is trying to show us that a leader may chart the way, may point out the road to lasting peace, but that many leaders and many peoples must do the building.

Eleanor Roosevelt
Leadership, Peace, Trying
Eleanor Roosevelt, David Emblidge (2009). “My Day: The Best of Eleanor Roosevelt's Acclaimed Newspaper Columns, 1936-1962”, p.99, Da Capo Press

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.

Eleanor Roosevelt
Marriage, Country, Soulmate

There is not human being from whom we cannot learn something if we are interested enough to dig deep.

Eleanor Roosevelt
Enough, Dig Deep, Humans
Eleanor Roosevelt (1960). “You Learn by Living”, p.8, Westminster John Knox Press

Absence makes the heart grow fonder

Eleanor Roosevelt
I Miss You, Romantic, Missing You

Nearly all great civilizations that perished did so because they had crystallized, because they were incapable of adapting themselves to new conditions, new methods, new points of view. It is as though people would rather die than change.

Eleanor Roosevelt
Change, Views, Civilization

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