Quotes from a powerful woman

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Quotes from Eleanor Roosevelt

 

 

This is what being an exceptional human being sounds like.

 

A woman is like a tea bag- you never know how strong she is until she gets in hot water.

 

It takes as much energy to wish as it does to plan.

 

Justice cannot be for one side alone, but must be for both.

 

Beautiful young people are accidents of nature, but beautiful old people are works of art.

 

 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.

 

Friendship with oneself is all-important, because without it one cannot be friends with anyone else in the world.

 

If life were predictable it would cease to be life, and be without flavor.

 

 I’m so glad I never feel important, it does complicate life!

 

It is better to light a candle than curse the darkness.

 

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

 

For 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. As for accomplishments, I just did what I had to do as things came along.

 

I used to tell my husband that, if he could make me ‘understand’ something, it would be clear to all the other people in the country.

 

 HaveI once had a rose named after me and I was very flattered. But I was not pleased to read the description in the catalogue: no good in a bed, but fine up against a wall.

 

Old age has deformities enough of its own. It should never add to them the deformity of vice.

 

Never allow a person to tell you no who doesn’t have the power to say yes.

 

Remember always that you not only have the right to be an individual, you have an obligation to be one.

 

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.

 

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.

 

People grow through experience if they meet life honestly and courageously. This is how character is built. Have convictions. Be friendly. Stick to your beliefs as they stick to theirs. Work as hard as they do.

 

I can not believe that war is the best solution. No one won the last war, and no one will win the next war.

 

Great minds discuss ideas; Average minds discuss events; Small minds discuss people.

 

Sometimes I wonder if we shall ever grow up in our politics and say definite things which mean something, or whether we shall always go on using generalities to which everyone can subscribe, and which mean very little.

 

I could not at any age be content to take my place in a corner by the fireside and simply look on.

 

I think that somehow, we learn who we really are and then live with that decision.

 

If someone betrays you once, it’s their fault; if they betray you twice, it’s your fault.

 

It is not fair to ask of others what you are unwilling to do yourself.

 

The battle for the individual rights of women is one of long standing and none of us should countenance anything which undermines it.

 

You must do the things you think you cannot do.

 

You can’t move so fast that you try to change the mores faster than people can accept it. That doesn’t mean you do nothing, but it means that you do the things that need to be done according to priority.

 

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.

 

Justice cannot be for one side alone, but must be for both.

 

What one has to do usually can be done.

 

You can never really live anyone else’s life, not even your child’s. The influence you exert is through your own life, and what you’ve become yourself. Learn from the mistakes of others. You can’t live long enough to make them all yourself.

 

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.’ With the new day comes new strength and new thoughts.

 

Life was meant to be lived, and curiosity must be kept alive.

 

One must never, for whatever reason, turn his back on life.

 

One thing life has taught me: if you are interested, you never have to look for new interests. They come to you. When you are genuinely interested in one thing, it will always lead to something else.

 

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.

 

 

No one can make you feel inferior without your consent.

 

People grow through experience if they meet life honestly and courageously. This is how character is built. The giving of love is an education in itself.

 

There are practical little things in housekeeping which no man really understands.

 

Understanding is a two-way street. We are afraid to care too much, for fear that the other person does not care at all.

 

We gain strength, and courage, and confidence by each experience in which we really stop to look fear in the face… we must do that which we think we cannot. We have to face the fact that either all of us are going to die together or we are going to learn to live together and if we are to live together we have to talk.

 

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

 

What is to give light must endure the burning.

 

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.

 

When you cease to make a contribution, you begin to die.

 

What you don’t do can be a destructive force.

 

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A human being is only interesting if he’s in contact with himself.

 

I learned you have to trust yourself, be what you are, and do what you ought to do the way you should do it. You have got to discover you, what you do, and trust it.

 

Barbra Streisand (1942 – )

 

It is only by following your deepest instinct that you can lead a rich life, and if you let your fear of consequence prevent you from following your deepest instinct, then your life will be safe, expedient and thin. Katharine Butler Hathaway

 

Everything has its wonders, even darkness and silence, and I learn whatever state I am in, therin to be content.

Helen Keller (1880 – 1968)

 

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