“Great minds discuss ideas. Average minds discuss events. Small minds discuss people.”
— Eleanor Roosevelt
“Do one thing every day that scares you.”
“The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams.”
“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 have lived through this horror. I can take the next thing that comes along.' You must do the thing you think you cannot do.”
“No one can make you feel inferior without your consent.”
“Do what you feel in your heart to be right – for you’ll be criticized anyway.”
“Many people will walk in and out of your life, but only true friends will leave footprints in your heart.”
“Power corrupts. Knowledge is power. Study hard. Be evil.”
“Happiness is not a goal; it is a by-product.”
“True hospitality consists of giving the best of yourself to your guests.”
“You must do the things you think you cannot do.”
“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.”
“Poor minds talk about people. Average minds talk about events. Great minds talk about ideas.”
“A woman is like a tea bag; you never know how strong it is until it's in hot water.”
“You wouldn’t worry so much about what others think of you if you realized how seldom they do.”
“Do one thing everyday that scares you. Those small things that make us uncomfortable help us build courage to do the work we do.”
“Today is the oldest you’ve ever been, and the youngest you’ll ever be again.”
“Absence makes the heart grow fonder.”
“To handle yourself, use your head; to handle others, use your heart.”
“It takes as much energy to wish as it does to plan.”
“With the new day comes new strength and new thoughts.”
“Tomorrow is a mystery. Today is a gift. That is why it is called the present.”
“I am who I am today because of the choices I made yesterday.”
“All human beings are born free and equal in dignity and rights...”
“Life is what you make it. Always has been, always will be.”
“You’ll be damned if you do, and damned if you don’t.”
“I can’t tell you how to succeed, but I can tell you how to fail: Try to please everybody.”
“America is all about speed. Hot, nasty, bad-ass speed.”
“The choices we make are ultimately our responsibility.”
“People grow through experience if they meet life honestly and courageously. This is how character is built.”
“The destiny of human rights is in the hands of all our citizens in all our communities.”
“Anger is one letter short of danger.”
“Surely, in the light of history, it is more intelligent to hope rather than to fear, to try rather than not to try. For one thing we know beyond all doubt: nothing has ever been achieved by the person who says: it can’t be done.”
“Great leaders inspire people to have confidence in themselves.”
“No matter how plain a woman may be, if truth and honesty are written across her face, she will be beautiful.”
“Human resources are the most valuable assets the world has. They are all needed desperately.”
“All of life is a constant education.”
“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!”
“It is today that we create the world of the future.”
“Beautiful young people are accidents of nature, but beautiful old people are works of art.”
“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.”
“Be flexible, but stick to your principles.”
“It is not fair to ask of others what you are not willing to do yourself.”
“Where, after all, do universal human rights begin? In small places, close to home.”
“You can often change your circumstances by changing your attitude.”
“The greatest gift you can give a child is an imagination.”
“A stumbling block to the pessimist is a stepping-stone to the optimist.”
“If you lose money you lose much, If you lose friends you lose more, If you lose faith you lose all.”
“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.”
“Some people are going to leave a mark on this world, while others will leave a stain.”
“Understanding is a two-way street.”
“The future is literally in our hands to mold as we like. But we cannot wait until tomorrow. Tomorrow is now.”
“If someone betrays you once, it’s their fault; if they betray you twice, it’s your fault.”
“Life is meant to be lived.”
“Develop a skin as thick as a rhinoceros hide!”
“Education is the cornerstone of liberty.”
“Never allow a person to tell you no who doesn’t have the power to say yes.”
“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.”
“Light a candle instead of cursing the darkness.”
“Character building begins in our infancy and continues until death.”
“Life is like a parachute jump, you’ve got to get it right the first time.”
“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.”
“All the water in the world cannot drown you unless it gets inside of you.”
“The giving of love is an education in itself.”
“Nobody else is going to do the things which are yours to be done in the world.”
“Courage is more exhilarating than fear, and in the long run, it is easier.”
“What could we accomplish if we knew we could not fail?”
“Happiness is not a goal, it is a by-product. Paradoxically, the one sure way not to be happy is deliberately to map out a way of life in which one would please oneself completely and exclusively.”
“Life’s not about expecting, hoping and wishing. It’s about doing, being and becoming. It’s about t Learn from the mistakes of others. You can’t live long enough to make them all yourself.”
“When you have decided what you believe, what you feel must be done, have the courage to stand alone and be counted.”
“About the only value the story of my life may have is to show that one can, even without any particular gifts, overcome obstacles that seem insurmountable if one is willing to face the fact that they must be overcome.”
“Poverty is an expensive luxury. We cannot afford it.”
“Philosophy is not best expressed in words; it is expressed in the choices one makes.”
“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.”
“Each generation supposes that the world was simpler for the one before it.”
“Happiness is not a goal, it is a by-product. For what keeps our interest in life and makes us look forward to tomorrow is giving pleasure to other people.”
“Justice cannot be for one side alone, but must be for both.”
“In business courtesy and efficiency have a symbiotic relationship.”
“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.”
“If we do not pay for children in good schools, then we are going to pay for them in prisons and mental hospitals.”
“Everyone has the right to rest and leisure, including reasonable limitation of working hours and periodic holidays with pay.”
“When will our consciences grow so tender that we will act to prevent human misery rather than avenge it?”
“A great deal of fear is a result of just “not knowing.” We do not know what is involved in a new situation. We do not know whether we can deal with it. The sooner we learn what it entails, the sooner we can dissolve our fear.”
“No leader can be too far ahead of his followers.”
“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.’”
“We are afraid to care too much, for fear that the other person does not care at all.”
“It’s your life-but only if you make it so.”
“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.”
“Pit race against race, religion against religion, prejudice against prejudice. Divide and conquer! We must not let that happen here.”
“Life must be lived and curiosity kept alive. One must never, for whatever reason, turn his back on life.”
“Success must include two things: the development of an individual to his utmost potentiality and a contribution of some kind to one’s world.”
“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.”
“Somehow we must be able to show people that democracy is not about words, but action.”
“An economic policy which does not consider the well-being of all will not serve the purposes of peace and the growth of well-being among the people of all nations.”
“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.”
“In our country we must trust the people to hear and see both the good and the bad and to choose the good.”
“Staying aloof is not a solution, it is a cowardly evasion.”
“If life were predictable it would cease to be life, and be without flavor.”
“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.”
“I think that somehow, we learn who we really are and then live with that decision.”
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