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Inspirational Quotes by Eleanor Roosevelt

Index_card_top “Yesterday is history. Tomorrow is a mystery. Today is a gift.”
 
Eleanor Roosevelt  (1884-1962);
U.S. First Lady, Diplomat, Human Rights Activist
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Index_card_top “No one can make you feel inferior without your consent.”
 
Eleanor Roosevelt  (1884-1962);
U.S. First Lady, Diplomat, Human Rights Activist
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Index_card_top “You gain strength, courage, and confidence by every experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face. You must do the thing you think you cannot do.”
 
Eleanor Roosevelt  (1884-1962);
U.S. First Lady, Diplomat, Human Rights Activist
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Index_card_top “Friendship with oneself is all-important, because without it one cannot be friends with anyone else in the world.”
 
Eleanor Roosevelt  (1884-1962);
U.S. First Lady, Diplomat, Human Rights Activist
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Index_card_top “Many people will walk in and out of your life but only true friends will leave footprints in your heart.”
 
Eleanor Roosevelt  (1884-1962);
U.S. First Lady, Diplomat, Human Rights Activist
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Index_card_top “I could not, at any age, be content to take my place by the fireside and simply look on. Life was meant to be lived. Curiosity must be kept alive. One must never, for whatever reason, turn his back on life.”
 
Eleanor Roosevelt  (1884-1962);
U.S. First Lady, Diplomat, Human Rights Activist
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Index_card_top “The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams.”
 
Eleanor Roosevelt  (1884-1962);
U.S. First Lady, Diplomat, Human Rights Activist
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Index_card_top “When you cease to make a contribution, you begin to die.”
 
Eleanor Roosevelt  (1884-1962);
U.S. First Lady, Diplomat, Human Rights Activist
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Index_card_top “We must be willing to learn the lesson that cooperation may imply compromise, but if it brings a world advance it is a gain for each individual nation.”
 
Eleanor Roosevelt  (1884-1962);
U.S. First Lady, Diplomat, Human Rights Activist
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Index_card_top “People grow through experience if they meet life honestly and courageously. This is how character is built.”
 
Eleanor Roosevelt  (1884-1962);
U.S. First Lady, Diplomat, Human Rights Activist
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Index_card_top “The giving of love is an education in itself.”
 
Eleanor Roosevelt  (1884-1962);
U.S. First Lady, Diplomat, Human Rights Activist
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Index_card_top This Quote Was Our Daily Quote On: 12/17/10
“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.”
 
Eleanor Roosevelt  (1884-1962);
U.S. First Lady, Diplomat, Human Rights Activist
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“This I know. This I believe with all my heart. If we want a free and peaceful world, if we want to make deserts bloom and man to grow to greater dignity as a human being we can do it!”
 
Eleanor Roosevelt  (1884-1962);
U.S. First Lady, Diplomat, Human Rights Activist
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