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Eleanor Roosevelt
Eleanor Roosevelt
American First Lady
Born: Oct 11, 1884
Died: Nov 7, 1962
Best Life Own People Think You
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Great minds discuss ideas; average minds discuss events; small minds discuss people. Eleanor Roosevelt
Great People Events Small Minds Minds Great Minds Small Ideas Discuss Average
A woman is like a tea bag - you can't tell how strong she is until you put her in hot water. Eleanor Roosevelt
You Woman Water Strong Tea Tell Put Hot Bag Hot Water Like Until She How Her
You must do the things you think you cannot do. Eleanor Roosevelt
Inspirational You Think Must Cannot Things
The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams. Eleanor Roosevelt
Future Dreams Beauty Believe Those Who Belongs
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
Strength You Confidence Courage Experience Yourself Fear Face Every Say Able Horror Through Take Along Look Stop Gain Which Really Next Next Thing Lived Thing
No one can make you feel inferior without your consent. Eleanor Roosevelt
You No-One Feel Make Without Inferior Your Consent
We are afraid to care too much, for fear that the other person does not care at all. Eleanor Roosevelt
Relationship Fear Care Too Much Too Other Does Person Afraid Much
Do what you feel in your heart to be right- for you'll be criticized anyway. You'll be damned if you do, and damned if you don't. Eleanor Roosevelt
You Heart Criticized Feel Anyway Your Right
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
Responsibility Long Own Our Our Lives Ourselves Run Shape Long Run Never Until Make Ultimately Die Ends Process Choices Lives
Justice cannot be for one side alone, but must be for both. Eleanor Roosevelt
Alone Justice Side Must Both Cannot
One's philosophy is not best expressed in words; it is expressed in the choices one makes... and the choices we make are ultimately our responsibility. Eleanor Roosevelt
Wisdom Best Words Responsibility Our Philosophy Make Makes Ultimately Choices Expressed
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
Good Me Rose Once Pleased Fine Had Catalogue Named Read Bed Up Very Wall After Flattered Against Description
The giving of love is an education in itself. Eleanor Roosevelt
Love Education Love Is Giving Itself
People grow through experience if they meet life honestly and courageously. This is how character is built. Eleanor Roosevelt
Life Character Experience People Honestly Meet Through Courageously Built How Grow
Understanding is a two-way street. Eleanor Roosevelt
Understanding Two-Way Two-Way Street Street
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
Best You Courage Important Whatever Meet Give Only Accept Important Thing Thing
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 his own weight, this is a frightening prospect. Eleanor Roosevelt
Freedom Human Being Responsibility Own Every Carry Weight Prospect Makes Does Unwilling His Huge Up Frightening Person Human Being Want Requirement Who Grow Grow Up
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
Politics Sometimes Subscribe Everyone Our Say Definite Something Shall Generalities Always Go Up Very Wonder Whether Which Little Mean Using Grow Grow Up Ever Things
I think, at a child's birth, if a mother could ask a fairy godmother to endow it with the most useful gift, that gift should be curiosity. Eleanor Roosevelt
Birthday Gift Mother Think Birth Could Most Fairy Child Curiosity Godmother Endow Ask Should Useful
Probably the happiest period in life most frequently is in middle age, when the eager passions of youth are cooled, and the infirmities of age not yet begun; as we see that the shadows, which are at morning and evening so large, almost entirely disappear at midday. Eleanor Roosevelt
Life Morning Age Youth See Shadows Entirely Disappear Almost Most Period Frequently Passions Begun Midday Middle Middle Age Which Happiest Large Evening Eager
When will our consciences grow so tender that we will act to prevent human misery rather than avenge it? Eleanor Roosevelt
Will Our Rather Prevent Tender Misery Than Human Avenge Act Grow
It isn't enough to talk about peace. One must believe in it. And it isn't enough to believe in it. One must work at it. Eleanor Roosevelt
Work Peace Believe Enough Must About Talk
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 Women Battle Long Individual Countenance Individual Rights Long-Standing None Anything Which Us Should Standing
When you cease to make a contribution, you begin to die. Eleanor Roosevelt
You Make Cease Begin Contribution Die
Remember always that you not only have the right to be an individual, you have an obligation to be one. Eleanor Roosevelt
You Obligation Remember Only Individual Always Right
Perhaps nature is our best assurance of immortality. Eleanor Roosevelt
Best Nature Assurance Our Immortality Perhaps
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