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No one can make you feel inferior without your consent.
Eleanor Roosevelt
Old age has deformities enough of its own. It should never add to them the deformity of vice.
Eleanor Roosevelt
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
Only a man's character is the real criterion of worth.
Eleanor Roosevelt
People grow through experience if they meet life honestly and courageously. This is how character is built.
Eleanor Roosevelt
Perhaps nature is our best assurance of immortality.
Eleanor Roosevelt
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
Remember always that you not only have the right to be an individual, you have an obligation to be one.
Eleanor Roosevelt
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
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
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
The Bible illustrated by Dore occupied many of my hours - and I think probably gave me many nightmares.
Eleanor Roosevelt
The giving of love is an education in itself.
Eleanor Roosevelt
The only advantage of not being too good a housekeeper is that your guests are so pleased to feel how very much better they are.
Eleanor Roosevelt
The only things one can admire at length are those one admires without knowing why.
Eleanor Roosevelt
There are practical little things in housekeeping which no man really understands.
Eleanor Roosevelt
Too often the great decisions are originated and given form in bodies made up wholly of men, or so completely dominated by them that whatever of special value women have to offer is shunted aside without expression.
Eleanor Roosevelt
Mark Twain
13 years ago
