"More people are ruined by victory, I imagine,……" — Eleanor Roosevelt

"More people are ruined by victory, I imagine, than be defeat."

— 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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In today's interdependent world, a threat to one becomes a menace to all. And no state can defeat these challenges… — Michelle Bachelet
When I was in Minnesota serving in the state Senate and in Washington, D.C., I did everything I could to… — Michele Bachmann
The goal of all inanimate objects is to resist man and ultimately defeat him. — Russell Baker
If you live long enough, you'll see that every victory turns into a defeat. — Simone de Beauvoir
Watergate enabled the Democrats to cut off all aid to South Vietnam and ensure American defeat in a war their… — Conrad Black
There is no meeting of minds, no point of understanding with such terror. Just a choice: Defeat it or be… — Tony Blair
Death is nothing, but to live defeated and inglorious is to die daily. — Napoleon Bonaparte
He who fears being conquered is sure of defeat. — Napoleon Bonaparte
My greatest point is my persistence. I never give up in a match. However down I am, I fight until… — Bjorn Borg
At the end of the day we want to bring stability and hope to Iraq. That's the only way to… — Abdallah II
The defeats and victories of the fellows at the top aren't always defeats and victories for the fellows at the… — Bertolt Brecht
I give the fight up: let there be an end, a privacy, an obscure nook for me. I want to… — Robert Browning

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