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Persons Quotes by Eleanor Roosevelt
- If you approach each new person you meet in a spirit of adventure, you will find yourself endlessly fascinated by the new channels of thought…
- Nothing has ever been achieved by the person who says, ‘It can’t be done.’
- We all create the person we become by our choices as we go through life. In a real sense, by the time we are adults,…
- Where, after all, do universal human rights begin? In small places, close to home - so close and so small that they cannot be seen…
- Caring comes from being able to put yourself in the position of the other person.
- It is a curious thing in human experience, but to live through a period of stress and sorrow with another person, creates a bond which…
- When you build a memorial, you build it not because the person wanted it, but for the future -- for generations who didn't know the…
- 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…
- We are afraid to care too much, for fear that the other person does not care at all.
- Never allow a person to tell you no who doesn't have the power to say yes.
- A mature person is one who does not think only in absolutes, who is able to be objective even when deeply stirred emotionally, who has…
- Lest I keep my complacent way I must remember somewhere out there a person died for me today. As long as there must be war,…
- When you know to laugh and when to look upon things as too absurd to take seriously, the other person is ashamed to carry through…
- The most unhappy people in the world are those who face the days without knowing what to do with their time. But if you have…
- 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…
- 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…
- Surely, in the light of history, it is more intelligent to hope rather than to fear, to try rather than not to try. For one…
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- My mother is the coolest, most amazing person I know. — J. J. Abrams
- I gave my life to become the person I am right now. Was it worth it? — Richard Bach
- The first person to promulgate the Golden Rule, which was the bedrock of this empathic spirituality, was Confucius 500 years before Christ. — Karen Armstrong
- A boo is a lot louder than a cheer. If you have 10 people cheering and one person booing, all you hear… — Lance Armstrong
- As filmmakers, we can show where a person's mind goes, as opposed to theater, which is more to sit back and watch… — Darren Aronofsky
- I think it's important as a filmmaker, as any person working in the arts, that you've got to try new stuff and… — Darren Aronofsky
- No matter how busy you are, you must take time to make the other person feel important. — Mary Kay Ash