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It's your life - but only if you make it so. The standards by which you live must be your own standards, your own values, your own convictions in regard to what is right and wrong, what is true and false, what is

It's your life - but only if you make it so. The standards by which you live must be your own standards, your own values, your own convictions in regard to what is right and wrong, what is true and false, what is important and what is trivial. When you adopt the standards and the values of someone else . . . you surrender your own integrity. You become, to the extent of your surrender, less of a human being.

Eleanor Roosevelt
Integrity, Important, True And False
Eleanor Roosevelt (1960). “You Learn by Living”, p.111, Westminster John Knox Press

One of the best ways of enslaving a people is to keep them from education... The second way of enslaving a people is to suppress the sources of information, not only by burning books but by controlling all the other ways in which ideas are transmitted.

Eleanor Roosevelt
Book, Ideas, People
Eleanor Roosevelt, David Emblidge (2009). “My Day: The Best of Eleanor Roosevelt's Acclaimed Newspaper Columns, 1936-1962”, p.79, Da Capo Press

Caring comes from being able to put yourself in the position of the other person.

Eleanor Roosevelt
Caring, Able, Position
Eleanor Roosevelt (1961). “Autobiography”

When you have decided what you believe, what you feel must be done, have the courage to stand alone and be counted

Eleanor Roosevelt
Inspirational, Believe, Character

To handle yourself, use your head; to handle others, use your heart.

Eleanor Roosevelt
Inspirational, Leadership, Team

Pit race against race, religion against religion, prejudice against prejudice. Divide and conquer! We must not let that happen here.

Eleanor Roosevelt
Race, Unity, Prejudice

The future is literally in our hands to mold as we like. But we cannot wait until tomorrow. Tomorrow is now.

Eleanor Roosevelt
Future, Hands, Waiting

We must preserve our right to think and differ.

Eleanor Roosevelt
Thinking, Preserves

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.

Eleanor Roosevelt
Unique, Mold, Use
Eleanor Roosevelt (1960). “You Learn by Living”, p.59, Westminster John Knox Press

It takes as much energy to wish as it does to plan.

Eleanor Roosevelt
Inspirational, Life, Motivational

If human beings can be trained for cruelty and greed and a belief in power which comes through hate and fear and force, certainly we can train equally well for greatness and mercy and the power of love which comes because of the strength of the good qualities to be found in the soul of every human being.

Eleanor Roosevelt
Hate, Helping Others, Greatness

Today is the oldest you've ever been, and the youngest you'll ever be again.

Eleanor Roosevelt
Inspirational, Today, Canada Day

Comparison is the thief of all joy.

Eleanor Roosevelt
Joy, Thieves, Comparison

You must do the things you think you cannot do.

Eleanor Roosevelt
Inspirational, Change, Positive
You Learn by Living ch. 2 (1960)

The purpose of life is to live it, to taste experience to the utmost, to reach out eagerly and without fear for newer and richer experience.

Eleanor Roosevelt
Inspirational, Life, Fear
Eleanor Roosevelt (1960). “You Learn by Living”, p.12, Westminster John Knox Press

Where, after all, do universal human rights begin? In small places, close to home - so close and so small that they cannot be seen on any maps of the world ... Such are the places where every man, woman and child seeks equal justice, equal opportunity, equal dignity without discrimination. Unless these rights have meaning there, they have little meaning anywhere.

Eleanor Roosevelt
Inspiring, Children, Home
Eleanor Roosevelt, Allida Mae Black (2013). “Courage in a Dangerous World: The Political Writings of Eleanor Roosevelt”, p.190, Columbia University Press

Beautiful young people are accidents of nature, but beautiful old people are works of art.

Eleanor Roosevelt
Birthday, Beautiful, Art

Nothing has ever been achieved by the person who says, ‘It can’t be done.’

Eleanor Roosevelt
Inspirational, Motivational, Positive
Eleanor Roosevelt (1960). “You Learn by Living”, p.168, Westminster John Knox Press

With the new day comes new strength and new thoughts.

Eleanor Roosevelt
Inspirational, Good Morning, Strength
Eleanor Roosevelt (2001). “My Day: The Best of Eleanor Roosevelt's Acclaimed Newspaper Columns, 1936-1962”

Long ago, there was a noble word, liberal, which derives from the word free. Now a strange thing happened to that word. A man named Hitler made it a term of abuse, a matter of suspicion, because those who were not with him were against him, and liberals had no use for Hitler. And then another man named McCarthy cast the same opprobrium on the word. ... We must cherish and honor the word free or it will cease to apply to us.

Eleanor Roosevelt
Party, Men, Long Ago

To handle yourself, use your head; to handle others, use your heart. Anger is only one letter short of danger. If someone betrays you once, it is his fault; if he betrays you twice, it is your fault. Great minds discuss ideas; average minds discuss events; small minds discuss people. He who loses money, loses much; he who loses a friend, loses much more; he who loses faith, loses all.

Eleanor Roosevelt
Heart, Average, Ideas

In the long run, we shape our lives, and we shape ourselves. The process never ends until we die. And the choices we make are ultimately our own responsibility.

Eleanor Roosevelt
Life, Motivational, Running
Eleanor Roosevelt (1960). “You Learn by Living”, p.12, Westminster John Knox Press

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!

Eleanor Roosevelt
Thank You, Military, Marine

We are given in our newspapers and on TV and radio exactly what we, the public, insist on having, and this very frequently is mediocre information and mediocre entertainment.

Eleanor Roosevelt
Media, Information, Entertainment
Eleanor Roosevelt, Rochelle Chadakoff, David Emblidge (1989). “Eleanor Roosevelt's My Day: First lady of the world, her acclaimed columns, 1953-1962”

People grow through experience if they meet life honestly and courageously. This is how character is built.

Eleanor Roosevelt
Inspirational, Life, Motivational

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