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Famous Eleanor Roosevelt Quotes
“Great minds discuss ideas; average minds discuss events; small minds discuss people.”
Source: Eleanor and Harry: The Correspondence of Eleanor Roosevelt and Harry S. Truman
Source: You learn by living
“We are afraid to care too much, for fear that the other person does not care at all.”
Source: Book of common sense etiquette
Source: Eleanor Roosevelt's My Day: Her Acclaimed Columns, 1936-1945
“Never allow a person to tell you no who doesn't have the power to say yes.”
“If life were predictable it would cease to be life, and be without flavor.”
“I think that somehow, we learn who we really are and then live with that decision.”
Source: My Day: The Best of Eleanor Roosevelt's Acclaimed Newspaper Columns, 1936-1962
Source: You learn by living
Source: You learn by living
“Life is what you make it. Always has been, always will be.”
“It's your life-but only if you make it so.”
Source: You learn by living
“Character building begins in our infancy and continues until death.”
Source: You learn by living
“Tomorrow is a mystery. Today is a gift. That is why it is called the present.”
“You wouldn't worry so much about what others think of you if you realized how seldom they do.”
“No one is all-knowing and therefore all of us need both love and charity.”
Source: It seems to me
“Life has got to be lived - that's all there is to it.”
Source: A World of Love: Eleanor Roosevelt and Her Friends, 1943-1962
Source: You learn by living