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Happiness is not a goal; it is a by-product.

Happiness is not a goal; it is a by-product.

Eleanor Roosevelt
Happiness, Success, Happy
Eleanor Roosevelt (1960). “You Learn by Living”, p.95, Westminster John Knox Press

Anger is one letter short of danger.

Eleanor Roosevelt
Inspirational, Positive, Wise

The greatest tragedy of old age is the tendency for the old to feel unneeded, unwanted, and of no use to anyone; the secret of happiness in the declining years is to remain interested in life, as active as possible, useful to others, busy, and forward looking.

Eleanor Roosevelt
Years, Secret, Tragedy
Eleanor Roosevelt (1962). “Book of common sense etiquette”

You have to accept whatever comes and the only important thing is that you meet it with courage and with the best that you have to give.

Eleanor Roosevelt
Inspirational, Life, Motivational
Eleanor Roosevelt, Harry S. Truman, Steve Neal (2002). “Eleanor and Harry: The Correspondence of Eleanor Roosevelt and Harry S. Truman”, p.174, Simon and Schuster

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, Surrender, Standards
Eleanor Roosevelt (1960). “You Learn by Living”, p.111, Westminster John Knox Press

A mature person is one who does not think only in absolutes, who is able to be objective even when deeply stirred emotionally, who has learned that there is both good and bad in all people and in all things, and who walks humbly and deals charitably with the circumstances of life, knowing that in this world no one is all knowing and therefore all of us need both love and charity.

Eleanor Roosevelt
Life, Motivational, Humility
Eleanor Roosevelt (1960). “You Learn by Living”, p.63, Westminster John Knox Press

If someone betrays you once, it’s their fault; if they betray you twice, it’s your fault.

Eleanor Roosevelt
Inspirational, Betrayed, Faults

Lest I keep my complacent way I must remember somewhere out there a person died for me today. As long as there must be war, I ask and I must answer was I worth dying for?

Eleanor Roosevelt
War, Long, Dying

All of life is a constant education.

Eleanor Roosevelt
Inspiring, Education, Learning
Eleanor Roosevelt, David Emblidge (2009). “My Day: The Best of Eleanor Roosevelt's Acclaimed Newspaper Columns, 1936-1962”, p.107, Da Capo Press

No matter how plain a woman may be, if truth and honesty are written across her face, she will be beautiful.

Eleanor Roosevelt
Beauty, Beautiful, Truth

Do not stop thinking of life as an adventure. You have no security unless you can live bravely, excitingly, imaginatively; unless you can choose a challenge instead of competence.

Eleanor Roosevelt
Inspirational, Travel, Women
Eleanor Roosevelt (1961). “Autobiography”

...without equality there can be no democracy.

Eleanor Roosevelt
Political, Democracy, Politics

I believe that anyone can conquer fear by doing the things he fears to do, provided he keeps doing them until he gets a record of successful experience behind him.

Eleanor Roosevelt
Life, Success, Fear

I once had a rose named after me and I was very flattered. But I was not pleased to read the description in the catalogue: no good in a bed, but fine up against a wall.

Eleanor Roosevelt
Funny, Wall, Flower
Speech given at the White Shrine Club, Fresno, California. "The Event Makers I've Known". Book by Elvin C. Bell, p. 161, 2012.

Enjoy every minute you have with those you love, my dear, for no one can take joy that is past away from you. It will be there in your heart to live on when the dark days come.

Eleanor Roosevelt
Heart, Dark, Past
Eleanor Roosevelt, David Emblidge (1989). “Eleanor Roosevelt's My Day: Her Acclaimed Columns, 1936-1945”

Women are like teabags. We don't know our true strength until we are in hot water!

Eleanor Roosevelt
Strength, Women, Humor

If you lose money you lose much, If you lose friends you lose more, If you lose faith you lose all.

Eleanor Roosevelt
Friends, Faith, Spiritual

A stumbling block to the pessimist is a stepping-stone to the optimist.

Eleanor Roosevelt
Inspirational, Motivational, Attitude

The war for freedom will never really be won because the price of freedom is constant vigilance over ourselves and over our Government.

Eleanor Roosevelt
Freedom, War, Libertarian Party

Nothing we learn in this world is ever wasted.

Eleanor Roosevelt
Educational, World, This World
Eleanor Roosevelt (1961). “Autobiography”

Poor minds talk about people average minds talk about events great minds talk about ideas

Eleanor Roosevelt
Average, Ideas, People

Power corrupts. Knowledge is power. Study hard. Be evil.

Eleanor Roosevelt
Learning, Knowledge And Power, Evil

Courage is more exhilarating than fear, and in the long run, it is easier.

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

Life is like a parachute jump, you've got to get it right the first time.

Eleanor Roosevelt
Motivational, Life Is Like, Firsts

Think as little as possible about yourself and as much as possible about other people.

Eleanor Roosevelt
Positive, Thinking, People

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