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The things you refuse to meet today always come back at you later on, usually under circumstances which make the decision twice as difficult as it originally was.

The things you refuse to meet today always come back at you later on, usually under circumstances which make the decision twice as difficult as it originally was.

Eleanor Roosevelt
Decision, Political, Apathy
Eleanor Roosevelt, David Emblidge (1989). “Eleanor Roosevelt's My Day: Her Acclaimed Columns, 1936-1945”

Do the things that interest you and do them with all your heart. Don't be concerned about whether people are watching you or criticizing you. The chances are that they aren't paying any attention to you. It's your attention to yourself that is so stultifying. But you have to disregard yourself as completely as possible. If you fail the first time then you'll just have to try harder the second time. After all, there's no real reason why you should fail. Just stop thinking about yourself.

Eleanor Roosevelt
Real, Heart, Thinking
Eleanor Roosevelt (1960). “You Learn by Living”, p.32, Westminster John Knox Press

To me who dreamed so much as a child, who made a dreamworld in which I was the heroine of an unending story, the lives of people around me continued to have a certain storybook quality. I learned something which has stood me in good stead many times - The most important thing in any relationship is not what you get but what you give.

Eleanor Roosevelt
Children, People, Giving
"The Autobiography of Eleanor Roosevelt" by Eleanor Roosevelt, (p. xvi), 1961.

It is a brave thing to have courage to be an individual; it is also, perhaps, a lonely thing. But it is better than not being an individual, which is to be nobody at all.

Eleanor Roosevelt
Lonely, Brave, Individual
Eleanor Roosevelt (1960). “You Learn by Living”, p.114, Westminster John Knox Press

Sometimes I wonder if we shall ever grow up in our politics and say definite things which mean something, or whether we shall always go on using generalities to which everyone can subscribe, and which mean very little.

Eleanor Roosevelt
Growing Up, Mean, Political
Eleanor Roosevelt, David Emblidge (1989). “Eleanor Roosevelt's My Day: Her Acclaimed Columns, 1936-1945”

When will our consciences grow so tender that we will act to prevent human misery rather than avenge it?

Eleanor Roosevelt
Forgiveness, Peace, Honesty
Eleanor Roosevelt (2007). “The Eleanor Roosevelt Papers: The human rights years, 1945-1948”, Charles Scribner's Sons

Philosophy is not best expressed in words; it is expressed in the choices one makes.

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

The more we simplify our material needs the more we are free to think of other things.

Eleanor Roosevelt
Spiritual, Thinking, Needs
Eleanor Roosevelt, David Emblidge (2009). “My Day: The Best of Eleanor Roosevelt's Acclaimed Newspaper Columns, 1936-1962”, p.197, Da Capo Press

Basically we could not have peace, or an atmosphere in which peace could grow, unless we recognized the rights of individual human beings... their importance, their dignity... and agreed that was the basic thing that had to be accepted throughout the world.

Eleanor Roosevelt
Acceptance, Rights, Atmosphere

Before we can make friends with anyone else, we must first make friends with ourselves.

Eleanor Roosevelt
Inner Peace, Firsts
"The Life You Were Born to Live : A Guide to Finding Your Life Purpose". Book by Dan Millman, p. 38, 1995.

The encouraging thing is that every time you meet a situation, though you may think at the time it is an impossibility and you go through the tortures of the damned, once you have met it and lived through it you find that forever after you are freer than you ever were before. . . . You gain strength, courage, and confidence by every experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face. You are able to say to yourself, “I lived through this horror. I can take the next thing that comes along.

Eleanor Roosevelt
Thinking, Forever, Looks

Success is not something that can be measured or worn on a watch or hung on a wall. It is not the esteem of colleagues, or the admiration of the community, or the appreciation of patients. Success is the certain knowledge that you have become yourself, the person you will meant to be from all time. That should be reward enough.

Eleanor Roosevelt
Appreciation, Wall, Community

What could we accomplish if we knew we could not fail?

Eleanor Roosevelt
Inspirational, Confidence, Courageous

Remember always that you have not only the right to be an individual; you have an obligation to be one.

Eleanor Roosevelt
Motivational, Strength, Being Yourself
"You Learn by Living".

You never know anyone until you marry them.

Eleanor Roosevelt
Knows

A number of people still think of the United States as being overwhelmingly English, Protestant, and white. This erroneous idea influences their whole outlook.

Eleanor Roosevelt
Thinking, Ideas, White
Eleanor Roosevelt (2012). “Tomorrow Is Now: It Is Today That We Must Create the World of the Future”, p.49, Penguin

When you look fear in the face, you are able to say to yourself, 'I lived through this horror. I can take the next thing that comes along.'

Eleanor Roosevelt
Strong Women, Courage, Fear

We will have to want peace, want it enough to pay for it, before it becomes an accepted rule.

Eleanor Roosevelt
Military, Want, Pay
Eleanor Roosevelt (1995). “What I Hope to Leave Behind: The Essential Essays of Eleanor Roosevelt”, Carlson Pub

Freedom makes a huge requirement of every human being. With freedom comes responsibility. For the person who is unwilling to grow up, the person who does not want to carry is own weight, this is a frightening prospect.

Eleanor Roosevelt
Growing Up, Freedom, 4th Of July
Eleanor Roosevelt (1960). “You Learn by Living”, p.152, Westminster John Knox Press

All human beings are born free and equal in dignity and rights.

Eleanor Roosevelt
Rights, Dignity, Born Free
Eleanor Roosevelt, Harry S. Truman, Steve Neal (2002). “Eleanor and Harry: The Correspondence of Eleanor Roosevelt and Harry S. Truman”, p.277, Simon and Schuster

Justice cannot be for one side alone, but must be for both.

Eleanor Roosevelt
Inspirational, Justice, Political

You gain strength, courage, and confidence by every experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face.... The danger lies in refusing to face the fear, in not daring to come to grips with it. If you fail anywhere along the line it will take away your confidence. You must make yourself succeed every time. You must do the thing you think you cannot do.

Eleanor Roosevelt
Lying, Thinking, Growth
Eleanor Roosevelt (1960). “You Learn by Living”, p.29, Westminster John Knox Press

We are afraid to care too much, for fear that the other person does not care at all.

Eleanor Roosevelt
Inspirational, Life, Relationship
Eleanor Roosevelt (1962). “Book of common sense etiquette”

The basis of world peace is the teaching which runs through almost all the great religions of the world. Love thy neighbor as thyself.

Eleanor Roosevelt
Love, Running, Peace

The destiny of human rights is in the hands of all our citizens in all our communities.

Eleanor Roosevelt
Destiny, Rights, Hands

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