152 ordspråk av Eleanor Roosevelt

Eleanor Roosevelt

Eleanor Roosevelt föddes den 11 oktober 1884 och dog den 7 november 1962 - (1933-45), wife of Franklin D. Roosevelt, 32nd US president.
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When you cease to make a contribution, you begin to die.

What one has to do usually can be done.

I have spent many years of my life in opposition, and I rather like the role.

Sometimes I wonder if we shall ever grow up in our politics and say definite things which mean something, or whether we shall always go on using generalities to which everyone can subscribe, and which mean very little.

Politikk

A little simplification would be the first step toward rational living, I think.

Somewhere along the line of development we discover what we really are, and then we make our real decision for which we are responsible. Make that decision primarily for yourself because you can never really live anyone else's life, not even your own child's.

The only advantage of not being too good a housekeeper is that your guests are so pleased to feel how very much better they are.

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.

Life

I cannot believe that war is the best solution. No one won the last war and no one will win the next.

Krig

I could not, at any age, be content to take my place in a corner by the fireside and simply look on.

It is not more vacation we need - it is more vocation.

Freedom makes a huge requirement of every human being. With freedom comes responsibility. For the person who is unwilling to grow up, the person who does not want to carry is own weight, this is a frightening prospect.

I could never say in the morning, "I have a headache and cannot do thus and so". Headache or no headache, thus and so had to be done.

If we want a free and peaceful world, if we want to make the deserts bloom and man grow to greater dignity as a human being-we can do it.

All human beings have failings, all human beings have needs and temptations and stresses. Men and women who live together through long years get to know one another's failings; but they also come to know what is worthy of respect and admiration in those they live with and in themselves. If at the end one can say, This man used to the limit the powers that God granted him; he was worthy of love and respect and of the sacrifices of many people, made in order that he might achieve what he deemed to be his task, then that life has been lived well and there are no regrets.

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