American - First | October 11, 1884 - November 7, 1962
Ambition is pitiless. Any merit that it cannot use it finds despicable.
Eleanor Roosevelt
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What you don't do can be a destructive force.
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People grow through experience if they meet life honestly and courageously. This is how character is built.
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Only a man's character is the real criterion of worth.
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I once had a rose named after me and I was very flattered. But I was not pleased to read the description in the catalogue: no good in a bed, but fine up against a wall.
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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 yourself.
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I can not believe that war is the best solution. No one won the last war, and no one will win the next war.
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Perhaps nature is our best assurance of immortality.
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Friendship with ones self is all important, because without it one cannot be friends with anyone else in the world.
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Do what you feel in your heart to be right- for you'll be criticized anyway. You'll be damned if you do, and damned if you don't.
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Since you get more joy out of giving joy to others, you should put a good deal of thought into the happiness that you are able to give.
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I believe that anyone can conquer fear by doing the things he fears to do, provided he keeps doing them until he gets a record of successful experience behind him.
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