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Eleanor Roosevelt quotes

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“Do not stop thinking of life as an adventure. You have no security unless you can live bravely, excitingly, imaginatively; unless you can choose a challenge instead of a competence.” Eleanor Roosevelt, The Autobiography of Eleanor Roosevelt
“Life was meant to be lived, and curiosity must be kept alive. One must never, for whatever reason, turn his back on life.” Eleanor Roosevelt, The Autobiography of Eleanor Roosevelt
“I learned something which has stood me in good stead many times—the most important thing in any relationship is not what you get but what you give.” Eleanor Roosevelt, The Autobiography of Eleanor Roosevelt
“I had really only three assets: I was keenly interested, I accepted every challenge and every opportunity to learn more, and I had great energy and self-discipline.” Eleanor Roosevelt, The Autobiography of Eleanor Roosevelt
“If people only realized what a war goes on in a child’s mind and heart in a situation of this kind, I think they would try to explain more than they do, but nobody told me anything.” Eleanor Roosevelt, The Autobiography of Eleanor Roosevelt
“Up to a certain point it is good for us to know that there are people in the world who will give us love and unquestioned loyalty to the limit of their ability. I doubt, however, if it is good for us to feel assured of this without the...” Eleanor Roosevelt, The Autobiography of Eleanor Roosevelt
“One curious feature about political reform is that so many people feel it is “disloyal” to attempt to rectify the abuses in one’s own party. And yet it is obvious that political morality is dependent upon the awakened conscience and private...” Eleanor Roosevelt, The Autobiography of Eleanor Roosevelt
“The more the world speeds up the more it seems necessary that we should learn to pick out of the past the things that we feel were important and beautiful then. One of these things was a quality of tranquillity in people, which you rarely meet today.” Eleanor Roosevelt, The Autobiography of Eleanor Roosevelt
“The chief one was to remember that camping was a good way to find out people’s characters. Those who were selfish showed it very soon, in that they wanted the best bed or the best food and did not want to do their share of the work.” Eleanor Roosevelt, The Autobiography of Eleanor Roosevelt
“I think I must have a good deal of my uncle Theodore Roosevelt in me because I enjoy a good fight and I could not, at any age, really be contented to take my place in a warm corner by the fireside and simply look on.” Eleanor Roosevelt, The Autobiography of Eleanor Roosevelt
“The reason that fiction is more interesting than any other form of literature to those of us who like to study people is that in fiction the author can really tell the truth without hurting anyone and without humiliating himself too much.” Eleanor Roosevelt, The Autobiography of Eleanor Roosevelt
“Looking back I see that I was always afraid of something: of the dark, of displeasing people, of failure. Anything I accomplished had to be done across a barrier of fear.” Eleanor Roosevelt, The Autobiography of Eleanor Roosevelt
“It is, I am afraid, true that frequently various religious groups endeavor to exert pressures and control over different legislative and educational fields. It is the job of all of us to be alert for such infringement of our prerogatives and...” Eleanor Roosevelt, The Autobiography of Eleanor Roosevelt
“Autobiographies are, after all, useful only 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, The Autobiography of Eleanor Roosevelt
“Many of the boys I saw in hospitals are now leading happy and useful lives, but they carry with them, day after day, the results of the war. If we do not achieve the ends for which they sacrificed—a peaceful world in which there exists freedom...” Eleanor Roosevelt, The Autobiography of Eleanor Roosevelt
“To me, who dreamed so much as a child, who made a dreamworld in which I was the heroine of an unending story, the lives of the people around me have continued to have a certain storybook quality.” Eleanor Roosevelt, The Autobiography of Eleanor Roosevelt
“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.” Eleanor Roosevelt, The Autobiography of Eleanor Roosevelt
“A real picture of any human being is interesting in itself, and it is especially interesting when we can follow the play of other personalities upon that human being and perhaps get a picture of a group of people and of the influence on them of...” Eleanor Roosevelt, The Autobiography of Eleanor Roosevelt

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