I love Eleanor Roosevelt. I love her so much, and not only because I received the Eleanor Roosevelt award in AP US History and is was pretty much the highlight of my life. Yes I am easily entertained and encouraged. She was a world changer and if she said something I will almost always resonate with it. Here is a list of quotes that I feel "get me" and the way I view the world.
1. "With the new day comes new strength and new thoughts."
2. "The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams."
3. "A woman is like a tea bag - you can't tell how strong she is until you put her in hot water."
4. "You gain strength, courage, and confidence by every experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face. You are able to say to yourself, 'I lived through this horror. I can take the next thing that comes along."
5. "Justice cannot be for one side alone, but must be for both."
6. "Great minds discuss ideas; average minds discuss events; small minds discuss people."
7. "No one can make you feel inferior without your consent."
8. "Understanding is a two-way street."
9. "It is not fair to ask of others what you are not willing to do yourself."
10. "It takes as much energy to wish as it does to plan."
11. "Never allow a person to tell you no who doesn't have the power to say yes."
12. "When will our consciences grow so tender that we will act to prevent human misery rather than avenge it?"
13. "In all our contacts it is probably the sense of being really needed and wanted which gives us the greatest satisfaction and creates the most lasting bond."
14. "Too often the great decisions are originated and given form in bodies made up wholly of men, or so completely dominated by them that whatever of special value women have to offer is shunted aside without expression."
15. "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."
16. "Friendship with oneself is all important, because without it one cannot be friends with anyone else in the world."
17. "I'm so glad I never feel important, it does complicate life!"
18. "Remember always that you not only have the right to be an individual, you have an obligation to be one."
19. "The reason that fiction is more interesting than any other form of literature, to those who really like to study people, is that in fiction the author can really tell the truth without humiliating himself."
20. "A mature person is one who does not think only in absolutes, who is able to be objective even when deeply stirred emotionally, who has learned that there is both good and bad in all people and in all things, and who walks humbly and deals charitably with the circumstances of life, knowing that in this world no one is all knowing and therefore all of us need both love and charity."
