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“Learn from the mistakes of others. You can't live long enough to make them all yourself”
Eleanor Roosevelt (1884–1962) American politician, diplomat, and activist, and First Lady of the United States
Cited as a piece of anonymous folk-wisdom from the 1940s onwards https://books.google.com/books?id=iNkWAQAAMAAJ&dq=%22Learn+from+the+mistakes+of+others.+You+can%27t+live+long+enough+to+make+them+all+yourself%22&focus=searchwithinvolume&q=%22make+them+all+yourself%22. Not attributed to Eleanor Roosevelt until 2001 https://books.google.com/books?id=ctxi36FCi18C&pg=PA151&dq=%22Learn+from+the+mistakes+of+others%22+%22live+long%22+roosevelt&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwiI_sD5mqDLAhWIKGMKHb8HAZ0Q6AEIHTAA#v=onepage&q=%22Learn%20from%20the%20mistakes%20of%20others%22%20%22live%20long%22%20roosevelt&f=false. <br class="br">Disputed
Eleanor Roosevelt (1884–1962) American politician, diplomat, and activist, and First Lady of the United States
This Is My Story (1937)
“Only a man's character is the real criterion of worth.”
Eleanor Roosevelt (1884–1962) American politician, diplomat, and activist, and First Lady of the United States
22 August 1944
My Day (1935–1962)
Source: You Learn by Living: Eleven Keys for a More Fulfilling Life
“If you lose money you lose much,
If you lose friends you lose more,
If you lose faith you lose all.”
My Day: The Best of Eleanor Roosevelt's Acclaimed Newspaper Columns 1936-62
“Each time you learn something new you must readjust the whole framework of your knowledge”
Eleanor Roosevelt (1884–1962) American politician, diplomat, and activist, and First Lady of the United States
Eleanor Roosevelt (1884–1962) American politician, diplomat, and activist, and First Lady of the United States
Source: You Learn by Living: Eleven Keys for a More Fulfilling Life
“To be a citizen in a democracy, a human being must be given a healthy start.”
Eleanor Roosevelt (1884–1962) American politician, diplomat, and activist, and First Lady of the United States
Eleanor Roosevelt (1884–1962) American politician, diplomat, and activist, and First Lady of the United States
Eleanor Roosevelt (1884–1962) American politician, diplomat, and activist, and First Lady of the United States
Source: You Learn by Living: Eleven Keys for a More Fulfilling Life
“Justice cannot be for one side alone, but must be for both.”
Eleanor Roosevelt (1884–1962) American politician, diplomat, and activist, and First Lady of the United States
Source: The Autobiography of Eleanor Roosevelt
Eleanor Roosevelt (1884–1962) American politician, diplomat, and activist, and First Lady of the United States
Eleanor Roosevelt (1884–1962) American politician, diplomat, and activist, and First Lady of the United States
Eleanor Roosevelt (1884–1962) American politician, diplomat, and activist, and First Lady of the United States
My Day (1935–1962)
Source: This is My Story
Context: If man is to be liberated to enjoy more leisure, he must also be prepared to enjoy this leisure fully and creatively. For people to have more time to read, to take part in their civic obligations, to know more about how their government functions and who their officials are might mean in a democracy a great improvement in the democratic processes. Let's begin, then, to think how we can prepare old and young for these new opportunities. Let's not wait until they come upon us suddenly and we have a crisis that we will be ill prepared to meet. (5 November 1958)
“Understanding is a two-way street.”
Eleanor Roosevelt (1884–1962) American politician, diplomat, and activist, and First Lady of the United States
As quoted in Modern Quotations for Ready Reference (1947) by Arthur Richmond, p. 455
Source: The Autobiography of Eleanor Roosevelt
Eleanor Roosevelt (1884–1962) American politician, diplomat, and activist, and First Lady of the United States
“There is nothing to fear except fear it's self.”
Eleanor Roosevelt (1884–1962) American politician, diplomat, and activist, and First Lady of the United States
Eleanor Roosevelt (1884–1962) American politician, diplomat, and activist, and First Lady of the United States
Source: You Learn by Living: Eleven Keys for a More Fulfilling Life
“What you don't do can be a destructive force.”
Eleanor Roosevelt (1884–1962) American politician, diplomat, and activist, and First Lady of the United States
“Anyone who thinks must think of the next war as they would of suicide.”
Eleanor Roosevelt (1884–1962) American politician, diplomat, and activist, and First Lady of the United States
Source: Eleanor and Franklin