"It seems to me that I cannot afford,……" — Eleanor Roosevelt
"It seems to me that I cannot afford, as a self-respecting individual, to refuse to do a thing merely because it will make me disliked or bring down a storm of criticism on my head."
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390 Quotes by Eleanor Roosevelt
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We must want for others, not ourselves alone.
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No one from the beginning of time has had security.
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The most important thing in any relationship is not what you get but what you give.... In any case, the…
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Furnish an example, stop preaching, stop shielding, don't prevent self-reliance and initiative, allow your children to develop along thier own…
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The trouble is that not enough people have come together with the firm determination to live the things which they…
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Democracy cannot be static. Whatever is static is dead.
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Nearly all great civilizations that perished did so because they had crystallized, because they were incapable of adapting themselves to…
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Where, after all, do universal human rights begin? In small places, close to home - so close and so small…
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Life has got to be lived - that's all there is to it.
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Nothing we learn in this world is ever wasted.
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The kind of man who thinks that helping with the dishes is beneath him will also think that helping with…
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Basically we could not have peace, or an atmosphere in which peace could grow, unless we recognized the rights of…
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War has become a luxury that only small nations can afford.
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When bright young minds can't afford college, America pays the price.
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A child cannot be taught by anyone who despises him, and a child cannot afford to be fooled.
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Ignorance is an evil weed, which dictators may cultivate among their dupes, but which no democracy can afford among its…
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No movement can afford to be caught in a time warp and exist in a state of suspended animation.
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I get to hear the really good or the really bad things in the press, but I don't read it.…
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In ambition, as in love, the successful can afford to be indulgent toward their rivals. The prize our own, it…
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