Eleanor Roosevelt Quotes

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Eleanor Roosevelt

Profession : First Lady

Birth : October 11, 1884

In all our contacts it is probably the sense of being really needed and wanted which gives us the greatest satisfaction and creates the most lasting bond.

Eleanor Roosevelt

It is not more vacation we need - it is more vocation.

Eleanor Roosevelt

Autobiographies are only useful as the lives you read about and analyze may suggest to you something that you may find useful in your own journey through life.

Eleanor Roosevelt

A little simplification would be the first step toward rational living, I think.

Eleanor Roosevelt

When will our consciences grow so tender that we will act to prevent human misery rather than avenge it?

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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.

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Old age has deformities enough of its own. It should never add to them the deformity of vice.

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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.

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As for accomplishments, I just did what I had to do as things came along.

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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.

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There are practical little things in housekeeping which no man really understands.

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Hate and force cannot be in just a part of the world without having an effect on the rest of it.

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What one has to do usually can be done.

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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.

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Actors are one family over the entire world.

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Only a man's character is the real criterion of worth.

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I can not believe that war is the best solution. No one won the last war, and no one will win the next war.

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Anyone who thinks must think of the next war as they would of suicide.

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I think I lived those years very impersonally. It was almost as though I had erected someone outside myself who was the president's wife. I was lost somewhere deep down inside myself. That is the way I felt and worked until I left the White House.

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I do not think that I am a natural born mother... If I ever wanted to mother anyone, it was my father.

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