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Develop a skin as thick as a rhinoceros hide!

Develop a skin as thick as a rhinoceros hide!

Eleanor Roosevelt
Skins, Thick, Rhinoceros

This is a time for action — not for war, but for mobilization of every bit of peace machinery.

Eleanor Roosevelt
Peace, War, Action
Eleanor Roosevelt, David Emblidge (2001). “My Day: The Best of Eleanor Roosevelt's Acclaimed Newspaper Columns, 1936-1962”, p.211, Da Capo Press

Anyone who thinks must think of the next war as they would of suicide.

Eleanor Roosevelt
Suicide, War, Thinking

Only a man's character is the real criterion of worth.

Eleanor Roosevelt
Real, Character, Men
Eleanor Roosevelt, David Emblidge (2009). “My Day: The Best of Eleanor Roosevelt's Acclaimed Newspaper Columns, 1936-1962”, p.93, Da Capo Press

One's philosophy is not best expressed in words; it is expressed in the choices one makes. In stopping to think through the meaning of what I have learned, there is much that I believe intensely, much I am unsure of. 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
Running, Philosophy, Believe
"You Learn by Living" by Eleanor Roosevelt, (Foreword), 1960.

Women are like tea bags: put them in hot water and they get stronger.

Eleanor Roosevelt
Inspirational, Courage, Water

It is always disagreeable to take stands. It is always easier to compromise, always easier to let things go. To many women, and I am one of them, it is extraordinarily difficult to care about anything enough to cause disagreement or unpleasant feelings, but I have come to the conclusion that this must be done for a time until we can prove our strength and demand respect for our wishes. We cannot even be of real service in the coming campaign and speak as a united body of women unless we have the respect of men and show that when we express a wish, we are willing to stand by it.

Eleanor Roosevelt
Real, Men, Feelings
Joseph P. Lash, Eleanor Roosevelt (1982). “Love, Eleanor: Eleanor Roosevelt and Her Friends”, Doubleday Books

The American Dream can no more remain static than can the American nation.... We cannot any longer take an old approach to world problems. They aren't the same problems. It isn't the same world. We must not adopt the methods of our ancestors; instead, we must emulate that pioneer quality in our ancestors that made them attempt new methods for a New World.

Eleanor Roosevelt
Dream, America, Quality

The purpose of life afterall is to live it.

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

The only joy in this hard life is serving others.

Eleanor Roosevelt
Joy, Hard Life, Life Is

I think that somehow, we learn who we really are and then live with that decision.

Eleanor Roosevelt
Life, Self Esteem, Thinking
"Peter's Quotations : Ideas for Our Time" by Laurence J. Peter, (p. 5), 1972.

The giving of love and understanding is an education in itself.

Eleanor Roosevelt
Love, Inspiring, Teacher
"Your Teens and Mine".

Women are like tea bags.They do not know how strong they are until they get into hot water.

Eleanor Roosevelt
Strong, Water, Tea

If many of our young people have lost the excitement of the early settlers, who had a country to explore and develop, it is because no one remembers to tell them that the world has never been so challenging, so exciting... Perhaps the older generation is often to blame with its cautious warning: “Take a job that will give you security, not adventure.” But I say to the young: “Do not stop thinking of life as an adventure. You have no security unless you can live bravely, excitingly, and imaginatively; unless you can choose a challenge instead of a competence.

Eleanor Roosevelt
Country, Jobs, Adventure

For all of us, as we grow older, perhaps the most important thing is to keep alive our love of others and to believe that our love and interest are as vitally necessary to them as to us. This is what makes us keep on growing and refills the fountains of energy.

Eleanor Roosevelt
Believe, Important, Energy
Eleanor Roosevelt (1995). “What I Hope to Leave Behind: The Essential Essays of Eleanor Roosevelt”, Carlson Pub

What counts, in the long run, is not what you read; it is what you sift through your own mind; it is the ideas and impressions that are aroused in you by your reading. It is the ideas stirred in your own mind, the ideas which are a reflection of your own thinking, which make you an interesting person

Eleanor Roosevelt
Running, Reading, Reflection
Eleanor Roosevelt (2011). “You Learn By Living: Eleven Keys for a More Fulfilling Life”, p.15, Harper Collins

Success must include two things: the development of an individual to his utmost potentiality and a contribution of some kind to one's world.

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

All the water in the world cannot drown you unless it gets inside of you.

Eleanor Roosevelt
Water, World

First of my own personal requirements is inner calm. This, I think, is an essential. One of the secrets of using your time well is to gain a certain ability to maintain peace within yourself so that much can go on around you and you can stay calm inside.

Eleanor Roosevelt
Thinking, Secret, Stay Calm
Eleanor Roosevelt (1960). “You Learn by Living”, p.46, Westminster John Knox Press

I know that we will be the sufferers if we let great wrongs occur without exerting ourselves to correct them.

Eleanor Roosevelt
Ifs, Knows, Sufferers
Eleanor Roosevelt, David Emblidge (2009). “My Day: The Best of Eleanor Roosevelt's Acclaimed Newspaper Columns, 1936-1962”, p.83, Da Capo Press

When life is too easy for us, we must beware or we may not be ready to meet the blows which sooner or later come to everyone, rich or poor.

Eleanor Roosevelt
Life, Blow, Rich Or Poor
Eleanor Roosevelt, David Emblidge (1989). “Eleanor Roosevelt's My Day: Her Acclaimed Columns, 1936-1945”

I carried it (a revolver) religiously and during the summer I asked a friend, a man who had been one of Franklin's bodyguards in New York State, to give me some practice in target shooting so that if the need arose I would know how to use the gun.

Eleanor Roosevelt
Summer, New York, Men

There is nothing to fear except fear it's self.

Eleanor Roosevelt
Inspirational, Self, Courageous
"2012 Crossing Over: A New Beginning". Documentary, www.imdb.com. 2012.

What I have learned from my own experience is that the most important ingredients in a child's education are curiosity, interest, imagination, and a sense of the adventure of life.

Eleanor Roosevelt
Life, Children, Adventure
Eleanor Roosevelt (1960). “You Learn by Living”, p.4, Westminster John Knox Press

We all create the person we become by our choices as we go through life. In a real sense, by the time we are adults, we are the sum total of the choices we have made.

Eleanor Roosevelt
Real, Choices, Accountability
Eleanor Roosevelt (1960). “You Learn by Living”, p.151, Westminster John Knox Press

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