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Curiously enough, it is often the people who refuse to assume any responsibility who are apt to be the sharpest critics of those who do.

Curiously enough, it is often the people who refuse to assume any responsibility who are apt to be the sharpest critics of those who do.

Eleanor Roosevelt
Responsibility, People, Assuming
Eleanor Roosevelt (1960). “You Learn by Living”, p.157, Westminster John Knox Press

As life developed, I faced each problem as it came along. As my activities and work broadened and reached out, I never tried to shirk. I tried never to evade an issue. When I found I had something to do--I just did it.

Eleanor Roosevelt
Courage, Work, Issues
Joseph P. Lash, Eleanor Roosevelt (1982). “Love, Eleanor: Eleanor Roosevelt and Her Friends”, Doubleday Books

America is all about speed. Hot, nasty, bad-ass speed.

Eleanor Roosevelt
Bad Ass, America, Hot

The trouble is that not enough people have come together with the firm determination to live the things which they say they believe.

Eleanor Roosevelt
Determination, Believe, Justice
Eleanor Roosevelt (1960). “You Learn by Living”, p.129, Westminster John Knox Press

When you cease to make a contribution, you begin to die.

Eleanor Roosevelt
Inspirational, Life, Happiness
Quoted in Joseph P. Lash, Eleanor: The Years Alone (1972)

I think if the people of this country can be reached with the truth, their judgment will be in favor of the many, as against the privileged few

Eleanor Roosevelt
Country, Thinking, People

What you don't do can be a destructive force.

Eleanor Roosevelt
Choices, Force, Destructive

The mind must be trained, rather than the memory.

Eleanor Roosevelt
Memories, Mind
Eleanor Roosevelt (2012). “Tomorrow Is Now: It Is Today That We Must Create the World of the Future”, p.103, Penguin

Anyone who knows history, particularly the history of Europe, will, I think, recognize that the domination of education or of government by any one particular religious faith is never a happy arrangement for the people.

Eleanor Roosevelt
Happiness, Faith, Education
Eleanor Roosevelt, Allida Mae Black (2013). “Courage in a Dangerous World: The Political Writings of Eleanor Roosevelt”, p.258, Columbia University Press

It takes courage to love, but pain through love is the purifying fire which those who love generously know. We all know people who are so much afraid of pain that they shut themselves up like clams in a shell and, giving out nothing, receive nothing and therefore shrink until life is a mere living death.

Eleanor Roosevelt
Love, Life, Inspiring
Eleanor Roosevelt, David Emblidge (2009). “My Day: The Best of Eleanor Roosevelt's Acclaimed Newspaper Columns, 1936-1962”, p.36, Da Capo Press

If we want a free and peaceful world, if we want to make the deserts bloom and man grow to greater dignity as a human being - we can do it.

Eleanor Roosevelt
Inspirational, Peace, Men
Eleanor Roosevelt (2012). “Tomorrow Is Now: It Is Today That We Must Create the World of the Future”, p.159, Penguin

I could not, at any age, be content to take my place by the fireside and simply look on. Life was meant to be lived. Curiosity must be kept alive. One must not, for whatever reason, turn his back on life." Another "No one can make you feel inferior without your consent.

Eleanor Roosevelt
Strong Women, Empowering, Curiosity
Quoted in Vidette-Messenger (Valparaiso, Ind.), 7 June 1941 See Channing 1

Friends, you and me... you brought another friend... and then there were three... we started our group... our circle of friends... and like that circle... there is no beginning or end.

Eleanor Roosevelt
Circles, Groups, Three

Every time you meet a situation you 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 were before.

Eleanor Roosevelt
Inspirational, Life, Courage
Eleanor Roosevelt (1960). “You Learn by Living”, p.29, Westminster John Knox Press

It is not that you set the individual apart from society but that you recognize in any society that the individual must have rights that are guarded.

Eleanor Roosevelt
Rights, President, Individual

The battle for the individual rights of women is one of long standing and none of us should countenance anything which undermines it.

Eleanor Roosevelt
Rights, Long, Political

On the whole our armed services have been doing pretty well in the way of keeping us defended, but I hope our State Department will remember that it is really the department of achieving peace.

Eleanor Roosevelt
Way, Remember, Achieve

It takes courage to love, but pain through love is the purifying fire which those who love generously know.

Eleanor Roosevelt
Love, Inspirational, Pain
Eleanor Roosevelt, David Emblidge (2009). “My Day: The Best of Eleanor Roosevelt's Acclaimed Newspaper Columns, 1936-1962”, p.36, Da Capo Press

Courage is exhilarating.

Eleanor Roosevelt
Inspirational, Courageous, Exhilarating

To leave the world richer—that is the ultimate success.

Eleanor Roosevelt
World, Ultimate Success, Ultimate
Eleanor Roosevelt (1960). “You Learn by Living”, p.119, Westminster John Knox Press

I have spent many years of my life in opposition, and I rather like the role.

Eleanor Roosevelt
Life Lesson, Years, Roles
Eleanor Roosevelt, Allida Mae Black (2012). “The Eleanor Roosevelt Papers: The human rights years, 1949-1952”, Eleanor Roosevelt Papers

Friendship with ones self is all important, because without it one cannot be friends with anyone else in the world.

Eleanor Roosevelt
Friendship, Relationship, Positive
"The Beacon Book of Quotations by Women" by Rosalie Maggio, p. 130, 1992.

No human being can ever 'own' another, whether in friendship, love, marriage, or parenthood.

Eleanor Roosevelt
Friendship Love, Marriage Love, Parenthood
Eleanor Roosevelt (1962). “Book of common sense etiquette”

The kind of man who thinks that helping with the dishes is beneath him will also think that helping with the baby is beneath him, and then he certainly is not going to be a very successful father.

Eleanor Roosevelt
Fathers Day, Baby, Successful
Eleanor Roosevelt (1946). “If You Ask Me”

A great deal of fear is a result of just “not knowing.” We do not know what is involved in a new situation. We do not know whether we can deal with it. The sooner we learn what it entails, the sooner we can dissolve our fear.

Eleanor Roosevelt
Inspirational, Knowing, Courageous
Eleanor Roosevelt (1960). “You Learn by Living”, p.34, Westminster John Knox Press

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