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Famous Quotes
Quotes by 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.
- 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.
- We are afraid to care too much, for fear that the other person does not care at all.
- 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.
- 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.
- With the new day comes new strength and new thoughts.
- Women are like teabags. We don't know our true strength until we are in hot water!
- You can never really live anyone else's life, not even your child's. The influence you exert is through your own life, and what you've become yourself.
- You can't move so fast that you try to change the mores faster than people can accept it. That doesn't mean you do nothing, but it means that you do the things that need to be done according to priority.
- 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.'
- 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.
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