Eleanor Roosevelt citations

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“Avec le nouveau jour vient une nouvelle force et de nouvelles pensées.”

“Vous devez accepter tout ce qui vient, et la seule chose que vous rencontrerez n'est autre que celle qui a le meilleur à vous rencontrer si ce n'est celle qui n'a la pas déjà fait peut être.”

“Personne ne peut vous faire sentir inférieur sans votre consentement.”

“Faites ce que je dis pas ce que je fais”

“Faites chaque jour au moins une chose qui vous fait peur.”

“Beaucoup de gens entreront et sortiront de votre vie, mais seuls les vrais se reconnaitront.”

“Ne confondez jamais la connaissance avec la sagesse. L'un vous aide à gagner votre vie; l'autre vous rend pauvre.”

“Sans façon.”

“Quitter votre compagnon s'il vous trompe”

“Vous pouvez souvent changer votre situation en changeant votre attitude.”

“L'avenir appartient à ceux qui se lèvent tot.”

“Pour vous manipuler, utilisez votre tête; pour gérer les autres, utilisez votre cœur; pour participer, faites un don.”

“Le bonheur n'est pas un objectif.”

“You should always own a black dress because no one ever remembers a black dress.”

“Remember always that you not only have the right to be an individual you have an obligation to be one.”

“Will people ever be wise enough to refuse to follow bad leaders or to take away the freedom of other people?”

“Character building begins in our infancy and continues until death.”

“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.”

“I could not at any age be content to take my place in a corner by the fireside and simply look on.”

“Be confident, not certain”

“If you can develop this ability to see what you look at, to understand its meaning, to readjust your knowledge to this new information, you can continue to learn and to grow as long as you live and you’ll have a wonderful time doing it.”

“Never be bored, and you will never be boring.”

“I am convinced that every effort must be made in childhood to teach the young to use their own minds. For one thing is sure: If they don't make up their minds, someone will do it for them.”

“He who learns but does not think is lost. He who thinks but does not learn is in great danger.”

“I could never be content to take my place by the fireside and simply look on. Life was meant to be lived, and curiosity must be kept alive. One must never, for whatever reason, turn his back on life.”

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

“What you don't do can be a destructive force.”

“It is a brave thing to have courage to be an individual; it is also, perhaps, a lonely thing. But it is better than not being an individual, which is to be nobody at all.”

“There is nothing to fear except fear it's self.”

“If anyone were to ask me what I want out of life I would say- the opportunity for doing something useful, for in no other way, I am convinced, can true happiness be attained.”

“Understanding is a two-way street.”

“If man is to be liberated to enjoy more leisure, he must also be prepared to enjoy this leisure fully and creatively.”

“Every woman wants to be first to someone sometime in her life and that desire is the explanation for many strange things women do.”

“We have reached a point today where labor-saving devices are good only when they do not throw the worker out of his job.”

“Justice cannot be for one side alone, but must be for both.”

“To be mature you have to realize what you value most… Not to arrive at a clear understanding of one's own values is a tragic waste. You have missed the whole point of what life is for.”

“When you know to laugh and when to look upon things as too absurd to take seriously, the other person is ashamed to carry through even if he was serious about it.”

“To be a citizen in a democracy, a human being must be given a healthy start.”

“I know that we will be the sufferers if we let great wrongs occur without exerting ourselves to correct them.”

“Each time you learn something new you must readjust the whole framework of your knowledge”

“If you lose money you lose much,
If you lose friends you lose more,
If you lose faith you lose all.”

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