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Own Quotes by Eleanor Roosevelt
- Furnish an example, stop preaching, stop shielding, don't prevent self-reliance and initiative, allow your children to develop along thier own lines.
- What I have learned from my own experience is that the most important ingredients in a child's education are curiosity, interest, imagination, and a sense…
- For our own success to be real, it must contribute to the success of others.
- Somewhere along the line of development we discover what we really are and then make our real decision for which we are responsible. Make that…
- After the discovery in 1918 of love letters revealing that Franklin was involved with Lucy Mercer: The bottom dropped out of my own particular world,…
- 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.…
- One thing is for sure-none of the arts flourishes on censorship and repression. And by this time it should be evident that the American public…
- No human being can ever "own" another, whether in friendship, love, marriage or parenthood. Many human relationships have been ruined and happiness far too often…
- It's your life - but only if you make it so. The standards by which you live must be your own standards, your own values,…
- Those of us who believe in the right of any human being to belong to whatever church he sees fit, and to worship God in…
- 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…
- Freedom makes a huge requirement of every human being. With freedom comes responsibility. For the person who is unwilling to grow up, the person who…
- 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…
- Old age has deformities enough of its own. It should never add to them the deformity of vice.
- Autobiographies are only useful as the lives you read about and analyze may suggest to you something that you may find useful in your own…
- You should always own a black dress because no one ever remembers a black dress.
- When you adopt the standards and the values of someone else … you surrender your own integrity. You become, to the extent of your surrender,…
- Your life is your own. You mold it. You make it. All anyone can do is to point out ways and means which have been…
- What counts, in the long run, is not what you read; it is what you sift through your own mind; it is the ideas and…
- To be mature you have to realize what you value most... Not to arrive at a clear understanding of one's own values is a tragic…
- Love can often be misguided and do as much harm as good, but respect can do only good. It assumes that the other person's stature…
- I am convinced that every effort must be made in childhood to teach the young to use their own minds. For one thing is sure:…
- Those of us who believe in the right of any human being to belong to whatever church he sees fit, and to worship God in…
- The motivating force of the theory of a Democratic way of life is still a belief that as individuals we live cooperatively, and, to the…
More Own Quotes
- Power and violence are opposites; where the one rules absolutely, the other is absent. Violence appears where power is in jeopardy, but… — Hannah Arendt
- I am a free man. I do not need to copy Petrarca or Boccaccio. My own genius is enough. Let others worry… — Pietro Aretino
- Mothers are fonder than fathers of their children because they are more certain they are their own. — Aristotle
- Men create gods after their own image, not only with regard to their form but with regard to their mode of life. — Aristotle
- The generality of men are naturally apt to be swayed by fear rather than reverence, and to refrain from evil rather because… — Aristotle
- I believe that the whole idea of the consumer society is tottering. We've kept ourselves going by producing more and more goods,… — Paul Auster
- I was always interested in French poetry sort of as a sideline to my own work, I was translating contemporary French poets.… — Paul Auster
- Punk has always been about doing things your own way. What it represents for me is ultimate freedom and a sense of… — Billie Joe Armstrong
- I think it's your own choice if you turn from an angry young man to a bitter, old bastard. — Billie Joe Armstrong
- I like being a strong, independent woman, and to be honest, I was never afraid to be on my own. — Dido Armstrong
- We are addicted to our egotism, our likes and dislikes and prejudices, and depend upon them for our own sense of identity. — Karen Armstrong
- And above all things, never think that you're not good enough yourself. A man should never think that. My belief is that… — Isaac Asimov