About Eleanor Roosevelt

First Lady, diplomat and human rights champion who chaired the drafting of the UN declaration. (1884-1962)

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• You gain strength, courage, and confidence by every experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face.You Learn by Living (1960)
• You must do the thing you think you cannot do.You Learn by Living (1960)
• It isn't enough to talk about peace. One must believe in it. And it isn't enough to believe in it. One must work at it.Voice of America broadcast (1951)
• Life was meant to be lived, and curiosity must be kept alive. One must never, for whatever reason, turn his back on life.Preface to The Autobiography of Eleanor Roosevelt (1961)
• I have never felt that anything really mattered but the satisfaction of knowing that you stood for the things in which you believed and had done the very best you could.My Day newspaper column (1944)
• When life is too easy for us, we must beware or we may not be ready to meet the blows which sooner or later come to everyone, rich or poor.My Day newspaper column (1940)

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• The mass of men lead lives of quiet desperation.Henry David Thoreau
• If a man does not keep pace with his companions, perhaps it is because he hears a different drummer. Let him step to the music which he hears, however measured or far away.Henry David Thoreau
• Rather than love, than money, than fame, give me truth.Henry David Thoreau
• It is not enough to be industrious; so are the ants. What are you industrious about?Henry David Thoreau
• I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately, to front only the essential facts of life, and see if I could not learn what it had to teach, and not, when I came to die, discover that I had not lived.Henry David Thoreau
• Nothing can bring you peace but yourself. Nothing can bring you peace but the triumph of principles.Ralph Waldo Emerson

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