"I could not at any age be content……" — Eleanor Roosevelt

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

— Eleanor Roosevelt

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390 Quotes by Eleanor Roosevelt

Eleanor Roosevelt has 390 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:

We must want for others, not ourselves alone.
No one from the beginning of time has had security.
The most important thing in any relationship is not what you get but what you give.... In any case, the…
Furnish an example, stop preaching, stop shielding, don't prevent self-reliance and initiative, allow your children to develop along thier own…
The trouble is that not enough people have come together with the firm determination to live the things which they…
Democracy cannot be static. Whatever is static is dead.
Nearly all great civilizations that perished did so because they had crystallized, because they were incapable of adapting themselves to…
Where, after all, do universal human rights begin? In small places, close to home - so close and so small…
Life has got to be lived - that's all there is to it.
Nothing we learn in this world is ever wasted.
The kind of man who thinks that helping with the dishes is beneath him will also think that helping with…
Basically we could not have peace, or an atmosphere in which peace could grow, unless we recognized the rights of…

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To be free in an age like ours, one must be in a position of authority. That in itself would… — Hannah Arendt
We live in an age of instant knowledge. And there's almost a sense of entitlement to that. — J. J. Abrams
Education is the best provision for old age. — Aristotle
Bashfulness is an ornament to youth, but a reproach to old age. — Aristotle
It is unbecoming for young men to utter maxims. — Aristotle
I love things that age well - things that don't date, that stand the test of time and that become… — Giorgio Armani
I knew from the age of 16 that I wanted to be a writer because I just didn't think I… — Paul Auster
The freethinking of one age is the common sense of the next. — Matthew Arnold
You can fake your age or mask it, but the passion that moves the characters has to be real. — Victoria Abril
In every age 'the good old days' were a myth. No one ever thought they were good at the time.… — Brooks Atkinson
Another belief of mine; that everyone else my age is an adult, whereas I am merely in disguise. — Margaret Atwood
For years I wanted to be older, and now I am. — Margaret Atwood

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