Eleanor Roosevelt Quotes

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Many people will walk in and out of your life, but only true friends will leave footprints in your heart.
- Eleanor Roosevelt

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You must do the things you think you cannot do.
- Eleanor Roosevelt

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Happiness is not a goal; it is a by product.
- Eleanor Roosevelt

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No leader can be too far ahead of his followers.
- Eleanor Roosevelt

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

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Friendship with oneself is all important because without it one cannot be friends with anybody else in the world.
- Eleanor Roosevelt

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Campaign behavior for wives: Always be on time. Do as little talking as humanly possible. Lean back in the parade car so everybody can see the president.
- Eleanor Roosevelt

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You gain strength, experience and confidence by every experience where you really stop to look fear in the face. You must do the thing you cannot do.
- Eleanor Roosevelt

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People grow through experience if they meet life honestly and courageously. This is how character is built.
- Eleanor Roosevelt

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I think, at a child’s birth, if a mother could ask a fairy godmother to endow it with the most useful gift, that gift should be curiosity.
- Eleanor Roosevelt

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He who loses money, loses much; He who loses a friend, loses much more; He who loses faith, loses all.
- Eleanor Roosevelt

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Learn from the mistakes of others. You can’t live long enough to make them all yourself.
- Eleanor Roosevelt

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Nobody can make you feel inferior without your consent.
- Eleanor Roosevelt

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The giving of love is an education in itself.
- Eleanor Roosevelt