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Letter "E" » Eleanor Roosevelt Quotes
«People grow through experience if they meet life honestly and courageously. This is how character is built.»
Author: Eleanor Roosevelt
(Diplomat, First Lady, Humanitarian)
| About:
Character
| Keywords:
built, courageously, honestly
«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.»
Author: Eleanor Roosevelt
(Diplomat, First Lady, Humanitarian)
| Keywords:
All of Us, living together
«Women are like teabags. We don't know our true strength until we are in hot water!»
Author: Eleanor Roosevelt
(Diplomat, First Lady, Humanitarian)
| About:
Women
| Keywords:
hot, hotter, hot water, In Hot Water
«What you don't do can be a destructive force»
«When will our consciences grow so tender that we will act to prevent human misery rather than avenge it?»
Author: Eleanor Roosevelt
(Diplomat, First Lady, Humanitarian)
| Keywords:
avenge, avenges, avenging, consciences, tender
«When you cease to make a contribution, you begin to die.»
«What one has to do usually can be done.»
«I have spent many years of my life in opposition, and I rather like the role.»
Author: Eleanor Roosevelt
(Diplomat, First Lady, Humanitarian)
| Keywords:
in opposition, opposition, role, spent
«I 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.»
Author: Eleanor Roosevelt
(Diplomat, First Lady, Humanitarian)
| About:
Flattery
| Keywords:
Against A, bed, bed of roses, catalogue, catalogued, catalogues, description, descriptions, fine, flattered, named, named after, no-good, pleased, rose, wall
«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.»
Author: Eleanor Roosevelt
(Diplomat, First Lady, Humanitarian)
| About:
Politics
| Keywords:
definite, generalities, generality, go on, grow up, politics, subscribe, subscribed, subscribe to, subscribing, using
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