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Eleanor Roosevelt

Eleanor Roosevelt

The former First Lady was a champion of human rights and social justice, oftentimes advocating for those without a voice. She used her platform to push for progress and change, inspiring generations to pursue their passions with courage and conviction.

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It is not fair to ask of others what you are unwilling to do yourself.

– Eleanor Roosevelt

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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

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If someone betrays you once, it's their fault; if they betray you twice, it's your fault.

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The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams.

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Women are like teabags. You dont know how strong they are until you put them in hot water.

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Do one thing every day that scares you.

– Eleanor Roosevelt

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Do what you feel in your heart to be right – for you’ll be criticized anyway.

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

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Great minds discuss ideas; Average minds discuss events; Small minds discuss people.

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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

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No one can make you feel inferior without your consent.” ― Eleanor Roosevelt, This is My Story

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A trait no other nation seems to possess in quite the same degree that we do -- namely, a feeling of almost childish injury and resentment unless the world as a whole recognizes how innocent we are of anything but the most generous and harmless intentions.

– Eleanor Roosevelt

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

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

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If life were predictable it would cease to be life, and be without flavor.

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If you lose money you lose much, If you lose friends you lose more, If you lose faith you lose all.

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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

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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

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

– Eleanor Roosevelt

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Never be bored, and you will never be boring.

– Eleanor Roosevelt

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No man is defeated without until he is defeated within.

– Eleanor Roosevelt

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One thing life has taught me: if you are interested, you never have to look for new interests. They come to you. When you are genuinely interested in one thing, it will always lead to something else.

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The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams

– Eleanor Roosevelt

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The reason that fiction is more interesting than any other form of literature, to those who really like to study people, is that in fiction the author can really tell the truth without humiliating himself.

– Eleanor Roosevelt

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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.

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Where, after all, do universal human rights begin? In small places, close to home—so close and so small that they cannot be seen on any map of the world. Yet they are the world of the individual person: The neighbourhood he lives in; the school or college he attends; the factory, farm or office where he works. Such are the places where every man, woman and child seeks equal justice, equal opportunity, equal dignity without discrimination. Unless these rights have meaning there, they have little meaning anywhere. Without concerted citizen action to uphold them close to home, we shall look in vain for progress in the larger world.

– Eleanor Roosevelt

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With the new day comes new strength and new thoughts.

– Eleanor Roosevelt

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You gain strength, courage and confidence by every experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face.... You must do the thing which you think you cannot do.

– Eleanor Roosevelt

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You gain strength, courage, and confidence by every experience by 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.

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