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Top 90 Eleanor Roosevelt Quotes And Sayings
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Top 90 Eleanor Roosevelt Quotes And Sayings
90
“You must do the things you think you cannot do.”
89
“You can often change your circumstances by changing your attitude.”
88
“Do the things that interest you and do them with all your heart. Don’t be concerned about whether people are watching you or criticizing you. The chances are that they aren’t paying attention to you.”
87
“Work is always an antidote to depression.”
86
“Tomorrow is a mystery. Today is a gift. That is why it is called the present.”
85
“Life is what you make it. Always has been, always will be.”
84
“Since everybody is an individual, nobody can be you. You are unique. No one can tell you how to use your time. It is yours. Your life is your own. You mold it. You make it.”
83
“Character building begins in our infancy and continues until death.”
82
“Only a man’s character is the real criterion of worth.”
81
“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.”
80
“Nothing has ever been achieved by the person who says, ‘It can’t be done.”
79
“Anger is one letter short of danger.”
78
“The very next thing you need to be doing is the thing that terrifies you the most.”
77
“Your life is your own. You mold it. You make it. All anyone can do is to point out ways and means which have been helpful to others. Perhaps they will serve as suggestions to stimulate your own thinking until you know what it is that will fulfill you, will help you to find out what you want to do with your life.”
76
“Life has got to be lived – that’s all there is to it. At seventy, I would say the advantage is that you take life more calmly. You know that ‘this, too, shall pass!”
75
“The mind must be trained, rather than the memory.”
74
“Success must include two things: the development of an individual to his utmost potentiality and a contribution of some kind to one’s world.”
73
“I am who I am today because of the choices I made yesterday.”
72
“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 competence.”
71
“I never waste time looking back.”
70
“We all create the person we become by our choices as we go through life. In a real sense, by the time we are adults, we are the sum total of the choices we have made.”
69
“I believe that anyone can conquer fear by doing the things he fears to do…”
68
“Your ambition should be to get as much life out of living as you possibly can, as much enjoyment, as much interest, as much experience, as much understanding. Not simply be what is generally called a ‘success.”
67
“No man is defeated without until he has first been defeated within.”
66
“With the new day comes new strength and new thoughts.”
65
“The future is literally in our hands to mold as we like. But we cannot wait until tomorrow. Tomorrow is now.”
64
“The giving of love is an education in itself.”
63
“Do one thing every day that scares you.”
62
“Enjoy every minute you have with those you love, my dear, for no one can take joy that is past away from you. It will be there in your heart to live on when the dark days come.”
61
“If someone betrays you once, it’s their fault; if they betray you twice, it’s your fault.”
60
“You have to accept whatever comes and the only important thing is that you meet it with courage and with the best that you have to give.”
59
“Life is like a parachute jump, you’ve got to get it right the first time.”
58
“Every time you meet a situation you think at the time it is an impossibility and you go through the tortures of the damned, once you have met it and lived through it, you find that forever after you are freer than you were before.”
57
“To handle yourself, use your head; to handle others, use your heart.”
56
“Do what you feel in your heart to be right – for you’ll be criticized anyway. You’ll be damned if you do, and damned if you don’t.”
55
“Strength that goes wrong is even more dangerous than weakness that goes wrong.”
54
“It isn’t enough to talk about peace. One must believe in it. And it isn’t enough to believe in it. One must work at it.”
53
“Courage is exhilarating.”
52
“Before we can make friends with anyone else, we must first make friends with ourselves.”
51
“The purpose of life is to live it, to taste experience to the utmost, to reach out eagerly and without fear for newer and richer experience.”
50
“Choose a challenge instead of competence.”
49
“All of life is a constant education.”
48
“People grow through experience if they meet life honestly and courageously. This is how character is built.”
47
“Never allow a person to tell you no who doesn’t have the power to say yes.”
46
“It seems to me of great importance to teach children respect for life.”
45
“Today is the oldest you’ve ever been, and the youngest you’ll ever be again.”
44
“The basis of world peace is the teaching which runs through almost all the great religions of the world. Love thy neighbor as thyself.”
43
“Think as little as possible about yourself and as much as possible about other people.”
42
“If you lose money you lose much, If you lose friends you lose more, If you lose faith you lose all.”
41
“When you have decided what you believe, what you feel must be done, have the courage to stand alone and be counted.”
40
“A good leader inspires people to have confidence in the leader, a great leader inspires people to have confidence in themselves.”
39
“Courage is more exhilarating than fear, and in the long run, it is easier.”
38
“No one can make you feel inferior without your consent.”
37
“A mature person is one who does not think only in absolutes, who is able to be objective even when deeply stirred emotionally, who has learned that there is both good and bad in all people and in all things, and who walks humbly and deals charitably with the circumstances of life, knowing that in this world no one is all knowing and therefore all of us need both love and charity.”
36
“Many people will walk in and out of your life, but only true friends will leave footprints in your heart.”
35
“A stumbling block to the pessimist is a stepping-stone to the optimist.”
34
“The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams.”
33
“One’s philosophy is not best expressed in words; it is expressed in the choices one makes… and the choices we make are ultimately our responsibility.”
32
“If life were predictable it would cease to be life, and be without flavor.”
31
“My experience has been that work is almost the best way to pull oneself out of the depths.”
30
“It is not more vacation we need – it is more vocation.”
29
“What you don’t do can be a destructive force.”
28
“When life is too easy for us, we must beware or we may not be ready to meet the blows which sooner or later come to everyone, rich or poor.”
27
“What one has to do usually can be done.”
26
“You gain strength, courage, and confidence by every experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face. You are able to say to yourself, ‘I lived through this horror. I can take the next thing that comes along.”
25
“Understanding is a two-way street.”
24
“It takes as much energy to wish as it does to plan.”
23
“It is not fair to ask of others what you are not willing to do yourself.”
22
“I think that somehow, we learn who we really are and then live with that decision.”
21
“I believe that anyone can conquer fear by doing the things he fears to do, provided he keeps doing them until he gets a record of successful experience behind him.”
20
“A woman is like a tea bag – you can’t tell how strong she is until you put her in hot water.”
19
“I’m so glad I never feel important, it does complicate life!”
18
“The only things one can admire at length are those one admires without knowing why.”
17
“Friendship with ones self is all important, because without it one cannot be friends with anyone else in the world.”
16
“In the long run, we shape our lives, and we shape ourselves. The process never ends until we die. And the choices we make are ultimately our own responsibility.”
15
“Freedom makes a huge requirement of every human being. With freedom comes responsibility. For the person who is unwilling to grow up, the person who does not want to carry his own weight, this is a frightening prospect.”
14
“Great minds discuss ideas; average minds discuss events; small minds discuss people.”
13
“Someone once asked me what I regarded as the three most important requirements for happiness. My answer was: A feeling that you have been honest with yourself and those around you; a feeling that you have done the best you could both in your personal life and in your work; and the ability to love others.”
12
“We are afraid to care too much, for fear that the other person does not care at all.”
11
“It is better to light a candle than curse the darkness.”
10
“Happiness is not a goal; it is a by-product.”
9
“Probably the happiest period in life most frequently is in middle age, when the eager passions of youth are cooled, and the infirmities of age not yet begun; as we see that the shadows, which are at morning and evening so large, almost entirely disappear at midday.”
8
“When you cease to make a contribution, you begin to die.”
7
“Since you get more joy out of giving joy to others, you should put a good deal of thought into the happiness that you are able to give.”
6
“Hate and force cannot be in just a part of the world without having an effect on the rest of it.”
5
“There are practical little things in housekeeping which no man really understands.”
4
“Ambition is pitiless. Any merit that it cannot use it finds despicable.”
3
“The Marines I have seen around the world have the cleanest bodies, the filthiest minds, the highest morale, and the lowest morals of any group of animals I have ever seen. Thank God for the United States Marine Corps!”
2
“No matter how plain a woman may be, if truth and honesty are written across her face, she will be beautiful.”
1
“It’s your life – but only if you make it so. The standards by which you live must be your own standards, your own values, your own convictions in regard to what is right and wrong, what is true and false, what is important and what is trivial. When you adopt the standards and the values of someone else . . . you surrender your own integrity. You become, to the extent of your surrender, less of a human being.”
Here are the best quotes from the famous peoples about the LIFE!
Famous Life Quotes of Abraham Lincoln
“Better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to speak out and remove all doubt.”
“Always bear in mind that your own resolution to success is more important than any other one thing.”
“The probability that we may fail in the struggle ought not to deter us from the support of a cause we believe to be just.”
“If I had eight hours to chop down a tree, I’d spend six sharpening my axe.”
“And in the end it’s not the years in your life that count. It’s the life in your years.”
Famous Life Quotes of Mark Twain
“I have never let schooling interfere with my education.”
“When I was a boy of fourteen, my father was so ignorant I could hardly stand to have the old man around. But when I got to be twenty-one, I was astonished at how much the old man had learned in seven years.”
“Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear, not absence of fear.”
“Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things you didn’t do than by the ones you did. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream.”
“It’s not the size of the dog in the fight, it’s the size of the fight in the dog.”
Famous Life Quotes of Martin Luther King Jr.
Martin Luther King Jr
“I have a dream that my 4 children will one day live in a nation where they will be judged not by the color of their skin but by the content of their character.”
“A man can’t ride your back unless it’s bent.”
“Rarely do we find men who willingly to engage in hard, solid thinking. There is an almost universal quest for easy answers and half-baked solutions. Nothing pains some people more than having to think.”
“In the End, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends.”
Famous Life Quotes of Winston Churchill
Winston Churchill
“We make a living by what we get. We make a life by what we give.”
“The heights of great men reached and kept, Were not attained by sudden flight, But they, while their companions slept, Were toiling upwards in the night.”
“A pessimist sees the difficulty in every opportunity; an optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty.”
“Men stumble over the truth from time to time, but most pick themselves up and hurry off as if nothing happened.”
Famous Life Quotes of Mother Teresa
Mother Teresa
“Kind words are short and easy to speak, but their echoes are truly endless.”
“Everytime you smile at someone, it is an action of love, a gift to that person, a beautiful thing.”
“There should be less talk; a preaching point is not a meeting point. What do you do then? Take a broom and clean someone’s house. That says enough.”
“If you judge people, you have no time to love them.”
Famous Life Quotes of Mahatma Gandhi
Mahatma Gandhi
“Strength does not come from physical capacity. It comes from an indomitable will.”
“You must be the change you wish to see in the world.”
“A “No” uttered from the deepest conviction is better than a “Yes” merely uttered to please, or worse, to avoid trouble.”
“The weak can never forgive. Forgiveness is the attribute of the strong.”
Famous Life Quotes of Henry Ford
Henry Ford
“Whether you think you can or whether you think you can’t, you’re right.”
“If money is your hope for independence you will never have it. The only real security that a man will have in this world is a reserve of knowledge, experience, and ability.”
“You can’t build a reputation on what you’re going to do.”
“Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off your goal.”
“Anyone who stops learning is old, whether at 20 or 80. Anyone who keeps learning stays young. The greatest thing in life is to keep your mind young.”
Famous Life Quotes of Pablo Picasso
Pablo Picasso
“When I was a child, my mother said to me, ‘If you become a soldier, you’ll be a general. If you become a monk you’ll end up as the pope. ‘Instead I became a painter and wound up as Picasso.”
“Some painters transform the sun into a yellow spot; others transform a yellow spot into the sun.”
“I am always doing that which I can not do, in order that I may learn how to do it.”
“Success is dangerous. One begins to copy oneself, and to copy oneself is more dangerous than to copy others. It leads to sterility.”
“Every child is an artist. The problem is how to remain an artist once we grow up.”
Famous Life Quotes of Socrates
“The unexamined life is not worth living.”
“Virtue does not come from wealth, but wealth, and every other good thing which men have, comes from virtue.”
“I cannot teach anybody anything, I can only make them think.”
“True knowledge exists in knowing that you know nothing. And in knowing that you know nothing, that makes you the smartest of all.”
“The way to gain a good reputation is to endeavor to be what you desire to appear.”
Famous Life Quotes of Maya Angelou
Maya Angelou
“If you don’t like something change it. If you can’t change it, change your attitude. Don’t complain.”
“Prejudice is a burden that confuses the past, threatens the future and renders the present inaccessible.”
“If you have only one smile in you, give it to the people you love. Don’t be surly at home, then go out in the street and start grinning “Good morning” at total strangers.”
“The quality of strength lined with tenderness is an unbeatable combination, as are intelligence and necessity when unblunted by formal education.”
“Without courage you cannot practice any of the other virtues.”
Famous Life Quotes of The Bible
“Two are better than one because they have a good reward for their labor. For if they fall, one will lift up his companion. But woe to him who is alone when he falls, for he has no one to help lift him up.”
“Be not forgetful to entertain strangers, for thereby some have entertained angels unawares.”
“If the blind lead the blind, both shall fall into the ditch.”
“Give a man a fish and you feed him for a day, teach a man to fish and you feed him for a lifetime.”
“A wise man may look ridiculous in the company of fools.”
Famous Life Quotes of Sigmund Freud
“What a distressing contrast there is between the radiant intelligence of the child and the feeble mentality of the average adult.”
“One must not be mean with the affections; what is spent of the fund is renewed in the spending itself.”
“Just as a cautious businessman avoids investing all his capital in one concern, so wisdom would probably admonish us also not to anticipate all our happiness from one quarter alone.”
“No man can be happy without a friend, nor be sure of his friend till he is unhappy.”
“A man should not strive to eliminate his complexes but to get into accord with them, for they are legitimately what directs his conduct in the world.”
Famous Life Quotes of Albert Einstein
Albert Einstein
“If you can’t explain it simply, you don’t understand it well enough.”
“We cannot solve our problems with the same thinking we used when we created them.”
“Physical concepts are free creations of the human mind, and are not, however it may seem, uniquely determined by the external world.”
“Anyone who has never made a mistake has never tried anything new.”
“Few people are capable of expressing with equanimity opinions which differ from the prejudices of their social environment. Most people are not even capable of forming such opinions.”
“Few are those who see with their own eyes and feel with their own hearts.”
“Try not to become a man of success but rather to become a man of value.”
Life Quotes of Leonardo da Vinci
“Iron rusts from disuse; stagnant water loses it purity and in cold weather becomes frozen; even so does inaction sap the vigor of the mind.”
“Anyone who conducts an argument by appealing to authority is not using his intelligence; he is just using his memory.”
“Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication.”
“You do ill if you praise, but worse if you censure, what you do not understand.”
Famous Life Quotes of Miles Davis
“A legend is an old man with a cane known for what he used to do. I’m still doing it.”
“I’ll play it first and tell you what it is later.”
“I’m always thinking about creating. My future starts when I wake up every morning. Every day I find something creative to do with my life.”
“Sometimes you have to play for a long time to be able to play like yourself.”
“It’s not about standing still and becoming safe. If anybody wants to keep creating they have to be about change.”
2. It took me a long time not to judge myself through someone else’s eyes.
3. Admire someone else’s beauty without questioning your own.
4. ‘Grow through what you go through’ Love Yourself Quotes Pouch.
5. Be the kind of woman that when your feet hit the floor each morning the devil says, “Oh crap, she’s up!”
6. ‘Love yourself’ Self-love Quotes Tote Bag.
7. Some things take time.
8. I think everybody’s weird. We should all celebrate our individuality and not be embarrassed or ashamed of it.
9. Loving yourself isn’t vanity. It is sanity.
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11. My imperfections make me beautiful.
12. ‘Inhale confidence, exhale doubt’ Love Yourself Quotes Canvas Unisex 3/4 Raglan.
13. No regrets in life. Just lessons learned.
14. Who looks outside dreams; who looks inside, awakes.
15. Girrrl!! You are inspiring and beautiful.
16. Low self-esteem is like driving through life with your hand-break.
17. You are free to fail – A letter to me.
18. To love oneself is the beginning of a life-long romance.
19. Inhale confidence. Exhale doubt.
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21. I will be the best that I can be.
22. Love Yourself Quotes Pouch.
23. Our first and last love is self-love.
24. Self-pity gets you nowhere.
25. You are amazing. You are brave. You are strong.
Read Your Daily Self Love Bible Quotes
Reading a daily dose of self-love bible quotes will help you think of good things will happen for you today. It is necessary for anyone to have a peace of mind every morning. So, why not read these self-love bible quotes to help you get through your days and think “there is always light at the end of the tunnel”.
26. God has not given us a spirit of fear but of power and love and of s sound mind. 2 Timothy 1:7
27. When you recover or discover something that nourishes your soul and brings joy, care enough about yourself to make room for it in your life.
28. I will WALK BY FAITH even when I can not see. 2 Corinthians 5:7
29. “This is my COMMAND – be strong and courageous! Do not be afraid or discouraged. For the Lord, your God, is with you wherever you go.”
30. “Be STRONG and COURAGEOUS. Do not be afraid or terrified because of them, for the LORD your God goes with you; He will never leave you nor forsake you. -Deuteronomy 31:6
31. You will seek me and find me when you seek me with all your HEART. – Jeremiah 29:13
32. Let all that you do be done with love. -1 Corinthians
33. Dear Lord, When feelings of inferiority, insecurity, and self-doubt creep into my heart, help me to see myself the way you do.
Remember Your Beauty by these Empowering Self Love Quotes
You might think you are not beautiful but we are here to remind you otherwise. No one is ugly in this world. It’s just that you are different from the mainstream people. It is always good to be different. Remember, everyone is different from other people, you cannot be like someone completely without losing yourself. It is better to be different than to lose yourself while trying to be cool or popular.
34. You have power over your mind, not outside events. Realize this, and you will find strength. – Marcus Aurelius
35. A healthy self-love means we have no compulsion to justify to ourselves or others why we do things.
36. Let your inner voice speak louder than the opinions of others.
37. No one can make you feel inferior without your consent.
38. Be your own crazy, weird, wonderful self.
39. Act as if what you do makes a difference.
40. I am loved, I shine bright.
41. It is never too late to be what you might have been.
42. I believe in myself. I deserve to accomplish my goals.
43. Whatever course you decide upon, there is always someone to tell you that you are wrong.
44. Exist to be happy, not to impress.
45. A man cannot be comfortable without his own approval.
46. Be full of self-worth.
47. Self-care is never a selfish act; it is simply good stewardship of the only gift I have.
48. Self-love school. Lessons for cultivating your most important relationship.
49. Wanna know what the new relation ship goal is? Self-love is the new relationship goals.
50. She made a promise to herself to hold her own well-being sacred.
51. If only you could sense how important you are to the lives of those you meet.
52. The relationship with yourself sets the tone for every other relationship you have.
53. It ain’t what they call you, it’s what you answer to.
54. Love yourself so much that when someone treats you wrong, you recognize it.
55. When I loved myself enough, I began leaving whatever wasn’t healthy.
56. Stop underestimating yourself.
57. ‘Love yourself first’ Self-love Quotes White Mug.
58. The true nobility is in being superior to your previous self.
59. ‘Love your curves’ Love Yourself Quotes One-Piece Swimsuit.
60. To establish true self-esteem we must concentrate on our success.
61. ‘Keep Going’ Inspirational Love Yourself Quotes Towel.
62. Our self-respect tracks our choices every time we act in harmony.
63. Don’t rely on someone else for your happiness and self-worth.
Feel Like a Prince and Princess with these Disney Self Love Quotes
Do not doubt your self-worth and stop questioning your purpose in living in this world we call Earth. Nothing beats the Disney movies when you are looking for self love quotes. The main purpose of these Disney films is to show the importance of oneself, that there are happy-ever-afters and the importance of love. From Pocahontas to Cinderella to Toy Story, every movie made and produced by Disney is made to make anyone remember to love themselves.
64. The more you like yourself, the less you are like anyone else, which makes you UNIQUE. – Walt Disney
65. In every job that must be done, there is an element of fun. You find the fun, and -SNAP- the job’s a game! – Mary Poppins
66. All you need is FAITH, TRUST and a little PIXIE DUST. – Peter Pan
67. I may not have gone where I intended to go, but I think I have ended up where I needed to be. – Douglas Adams
It is never easy to pull yourself up when you are down. You might need your family and friends to do so. Being alone can help you sometimes but most of the time, you will need someone to listen to your doubts and fears. There is a saying, “no mans an island”. You might think that you can do it by yourself, but it is never wrong to ask your friends to listen to you when your family cannot.
Asking other people’s help is not a sign of weakness. It is a sign that you are strong. Because admitting you need help takes courage and a lot of guts.
Do not forget to love yourself. Others might try to pull you down but you have to be strong to be able to move forward and live your future with a smile on your face.
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