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Eleanor Roosevelt Quotes about Life

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Great minds discuss ideas; average minds discuss events; small minds discuss people.

Great minds discuss ideas; average minds discuss events; small minds discuss people.

Eleanor Roosevelt
Inspirational, Life, Motivational

Tomorrow is a mystery. Today is a gift. That is why it is called the present.

Eleanor Roosevelt
Inspirational, Life, Motivational

We gain strength, and courage, and confidence by each experience in which we really stop to look fear in the face... we must do that which we think we cannot.

Eleanor Roosevelt
Inspirational, Life, Motivational

You wouldn't worry so much about what others think of you if you realized how seldom they do.

Eleanor Roosevelt
Inspirational, Life, Motivational

Never allow a person to tell you no who doesn't have the power to say yes.

Eleanor Roosevelt
Life, Strength, Encouraging

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

Eleanor Roosevelt
Inspirational, Life, Motivational

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

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

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

Eleanor Roosevelt
Inspirational, Life, Motivational

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

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

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

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”

Life is what you make it. Always has been, always will be.

Eleanor Roosevelt
Inspirational, Life, Motivational

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)

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

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

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.

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”

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

Since you get more joy out of giving joy to others, you should put a good deal of thought into the happiness that you are able to give.

Eleanor Roosevelt
Life, Happiness, Depression

It's your life-but only if you make it so.

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

To undo a mistake is always harder than not to create one originally but we seldom have the foresight. Therefore we have no choice but to try to correct our past mistakes.

Eleanor Roosevelt
Life, Mistake, Past
"Confinement and Ethnicity".

Life has got to be lived - that's all there is to it.

Eleanor Roosevelt
Life, Happiness, This Too Shall Pass
Joseph P. Lash, Eleanor Roosevelt (1984). “A World of Love: Eleanor Roosevelt and Her Friends, 1943-1962”, Doubleday Books

Life must be lived and curiosity kept alive. One must never, for whatever reason, turn his back on life.

Eleanor Roosevelt
Life, Motivational, Strength
"Personal Quotes/ Biography". www.imdb.com.

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