THE 100 BEST PHRASES OF ELEANOR ROOSEVELT [WITH IMAGES] - ECONOMÍA - 2024

Here are the best quotes from Eleanor Roosevelt, American writer, politician and human rights activist, wife of former United States President Franklin Delano Roosevelt. She is considered one of the great leaders of the 20th century.

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-The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams.

-No one can make you feel inferior without your consent.

-With the new day come new forces and new thoughts.

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

-You must do the things you think you can't.

-You can often change your circumstances by changing your attitude.

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

-When you stop making a contribution, you begin to die.

-If someone betrays you once, it is their fault; If they betray you twice, it's your fault.

-To manage yourself, use your head; to handle others, use your heart.

-What you don't do can be a destructive force.

-Life is what you make of it. It always has been and always will be.

-What could be achieved if we knew that we cannot fail?

-We do not need more vacations, we need more vocation.

-Happiness is not a goal, it is a by-product.

-It is not fair to ask others what you are not willing to do yourself.

-It takes the same energy to wish as to plan.

-Justice should not be for one side only, it should be for both.

-A little simplification would be the first step towards rational life.

-Comprehension is a two-way street.

-It takes courage for love, but pain through love is the purifying fire known to those who love generously.

-Life must be lived and curiosity kept alive. One should never, for whatever reason, turn away from life.

-Freedom makes a great demand of every human being. With freedom comes responsibility. For the person who is unwilling to grow, the person who does not want to carry their own weight, this is a terrifying prospect.

-Don't stop thinking of life as an adventure. You have no security unless you can live with courage, excitement and imagination, unless you can choose a challenge.

-The purpose of life is to live it, savor the experience to the fullest, get excited without fear for newer and richer experiences.

-When life is too easy, we must be careful or we may not be prepared to face the winds that sooner or later reach everyone, rich or poor.

-Not enough to talk about peace. One must believe in it. And it is not enough to believe in it. You have to work on it.

-Do what you feel in your heart that is right, because you will be criticized in any way. You will be damned if you do, and damned if you don't.

-People grow through experience if they go through life honestly and with courage. This is how character is built.

-We are afraid of worrying too much, for fear that the other person will not worry at all.

-A woman is like a tea bag - you can't tell how strong she is until you put her in hot water.

-Life was made to be lived and curiosity must be kept alive. One should never, for whatever reason, turn away from life.

-Many people will walk in and out of your life, but only true friends will leave footprints in your heart.

-Young and beautiful people are accidents of nature, but beautiful and old people are works of art.

-You would not care so much about what others think of you if you realized how little they do.

-Always remember that you not only have the right to be an individual, you have the obligation to be one.

-We gain strength, courage and confidence for each experience in which we really stop to look fear in the face. We must do what we think we cannot.

-Large minds discuss ideas; average minds discuss events; small minds argue with people.

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

-Friendship with oneself is very important, since without it you cannot be friends with anyone in the world.

-I believe that anyone can conquer fear by doing things they fear to do, as long as they continue to be done until they have a record of successful experiences.

-One's philosophy is not better expressed in words; it is expressed in the decisions you make and the decisions we make are ultimately our responsibility.

-In the long run, we shape our lives and we shape ourselves. The process never ends until we die. And the decisions we make are ultimately our own responsibility.

-Friendship with oneself is very important, since without it you cannot be friends with anyone else in the world.

-Because you have more happiness by giving happiness to others, you should put a good amount of thoughts on the happiness that you are capable of giving.

-Have convictions. Be friendly. Be true to your beliefs as they adhere to theirs. Work as hard as they do.

-What one has to do can usually be done.

-Only the character of a man is the true criterion of value.

-No matter how simple a woman is, if truth and honesty are written on her face, she will be beautiful.

-You have to accept what comes and the only important thing is that you find it with courage and with the best you have to give.

-Probably the happiest period in the middle of life, when the avid passions of youth cool down, and the ailments of age have not yet begun; we see that the shadows, which are so great in the morning and at night, almost completely disappear at noon.

-I believe that at the birth of a child, if a mother can ask a fairy godmother to endow him with the most useful gift, the gift must be curiosity.

-Never allow a person who does not have the power to say yes to tell you no.

-The delivery of love is an education in itself.

-Anyone who thinks, must think of the next war as they would of suicide.

-The only things that can be admired in detail are those that one admires without knowing why.

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

-My experience has been that work is almost the best way to push yourself out of the depths.

-In terms of achievements, I only did what I had to do as things were coming.

-Maybe nature is our best guarantee of immortality.

-The battle for the individual rights of women is a long one and none of us should tolerate anything that undermines it.

-When will our consciences grow so tender that we will act to avoid human misery instead of avenging it?

-Old age has deformities of its own. The deformity of vice should never be added to them.

-I used to say to my husband that if he could make me understand something, it would be clear to everyone else in the country.

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

-Hatred and strength cannot be in one part of the world without having an effect on the rest.

-The actors are a family all over the world.

-Sometimes I wonder if we should grow in our policies and say definitive things that mean a lot, or if we should use generalities that mean little that everyone can subscribe to.

-Anyone who knows history, particularly the history of Europe, will recognize that the domination of education or government by a particular religious faith is never a happy agreement for the people.

-Do something every day that scares you.

-We all know people who are so scared of pain that they close themselves like clams in a shell and, by giving nothing, receive nothing, and shrink until life is nothing but death in life.

-The reason why fiction is more interesting than other forms of literature, for those who like to study people, is that in fiction the author can tell the truth without having to humiliate himself.

-A mature person is one who does not think in absolutes, who is capable of being objective even when emotionally shocked.

-It is an act of bravery to have the courage to be an individual, but it is also a lonely thing. But that's better than not being an individual, which is being no one at all.

-There is nothing to fear except fear itself.

-A mature person is one who has learned that there is good and bad in all people and in all things.

-A mature person walks humbly and deals charitably with the circumstances of life, knowing that in this world no one knows everything and, therefore, we all need love and charity.

-Never confuse knowledge with wisdom. One helps you survive, the other helps you have a life.

-Work is always the antidote to depression.

-Life has taught me one thing: if you are interested, then you will not have to seek new interests. They will come to you.

-When you are really interested in one thing, it will always lead you to something else.

-You cannot contribute and be useful unless you are an individual.

-It's your life, but only if you do it.

-A block that falls from pessimism is a stone that serves as the basis for optimism.

-If you fail the first time, you will have to try harder the second time. After all, there is no reason for you to fail.

-I must remember that somewhere someone died for me. As long as this war exists, I will wonder and hope someone will answer me if it is worth dying for me.

-There is no human being from whom we cannot learn something if we are interested enough to dig deep.

-Life is a constant education.

-The only advantage of not being a very good housewife is that your guests will be happy because they will feel that they are better.

-We don't have to become heroes overnight. Let's take it one step at a time, facing every thing that comes along, seeing that it's not as scary as it seems, discovering that we have the strength to look down.

- Where, after all, do human rights begin? In the small places, close to home, so close and so small that they cannot be seen on world maps.

-The neighborhood, school or university, factory, farm, or office. Such are the places where every man, woman and child seeks equal justice, equal opportunities, equal dignity without discrimination.

-Today is the day when you are more adult than you have ever been and younger than you will be again.

-I am who I am today because of the choices I made yesterday.

-We have to face the fact that we will all die together or we will have to learn to live together. And if we have to live together, we have to talk.

-You can't live someone else's life, not even your children's. The influence you exert is through your own life and who you are.

-You should have a black dress because nobody remembers them.

-What counts, in the long run, is not what you read, but what stays in your mind.

-What matters are the ideas and impressions that arise in your mind as you read. The ideas that move your mind, the ideas that are the reflection of your thoughts, that make you an interesting person.

-Will the day come when people are wise enough to refuse to follow bad leaders or stop taking away other people's freedom?

-Character building begins in our childhood and continues until death.

-There are no "you have to", only decisions.

-In all our relationships, it is the sense of being needed and wanted that gives us satisfaction and creates more lasting ties.

-I could not, at any age, content myself with taking a place in a corner by the fire and watching.

-Never get bored and you will never be bored.

-For me, who dreamed a lot as a child, who built a dream world in which I was the heroine of an endless story, the lives of the people around me still have a similarity to books.

-The most important thing in a relationship is not what you receive, but what you give.

-I am convinced that we must strive to teach young people to use their minds. Well, one thing's for sure: if they don't form an opinion, someone will form it for them.

-The person who learns but does not think is lost. The person who thinks but does not learn is in grave danger.

-The absence makes the heart feel more fond.

-Love can be a bad guide and do as much harm as good, but respect can only do good.

-Respect allows us to assume that the height of the other person is the same as ours, that their rights are as reasonable as ours, that their needs are just as important.