Eleanor Roosevelt
No one can make you feel inferior without your consent.
No one can make you feel inferior without your consent.
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.
You gain strength, courage, and confidence by every experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face. You must do the thing which you think you can not do.
The giving of love is an education in itself.
You gain strength, courage and confidence by every experience in which you stop to look fear in the face.
No one can make you feel inferior without your consent.
The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams.
You must do the things you think you cannot do.
You gain strength, courage, and confidence by every experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face.
Better to light a candle than curse the darkness.
Tomorrow is a mystery. Today is a gift. That is why it is called the present.
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Came but for friendship, and took away love.
Happiness is a butterfly, which, when pursued, is always just beyond your grasp, but which, if you will sit down quietly, may alight upon you.
Victory belongs to the most persevering.
Oh, no, it wasn't the airplanes. It was Beauty killed the Beast.
I know not with what weapons World War III will be fought, but World War IV will be fought with sticks and stones.
Thinking will not overcome fear but action will.
I believe that the science of chemistry alone almost proves the existence of an intelligent creator.
He who treads the path of love walks a thousand meters as if it were only one.
My mother thanks you. My father thanks you. My sister thanks you. And I thank you.
It is not the job of the general to be winning. It is his job to win.
Education has produced a vast population able to read but unable to distinguish what is worth reading.
Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.
With malice toward none, with charity for all.
You give but little when you give of your possessions. It is when you give of yourself that you truly give.
Love is more than a feeling, it's a state of mind.
A coward gets scared and quits. A hero gets scared, but still goes on.
To be happy, we must not be too concerned with others.
Faith can move mountains.
Happiness is not a matter of events, it depends upon the tides of the mind.
Kindness is an inner desire that makes us want to do good things even if we do not get anything in return. It is the joy of our life to do them. When we do good things from this inner desire, there is kindness in everything we think, say, want and do.
Commit yourself to a dream... Nobody who tries to do something great but fails is a total failure. Why ? Because he can always rest assured that he succeeded in life's most important battle -- he defeated the fear of trying.
The ornament of a house is the friends who frequent it.
It is not the strongest of the species that survive, nor the most intelligent, but the one most responsive to change.
Find out what it means to die - not physically, that's inevitable - but to die to everything that is known, to die to your family, to your attachments, to all the things that you have accumulated, the known, the known pleasures, the known fears. Die to that every minute and you will see what it means to die so that the mind is made fresh, young, and therefore innocent, so that there is incarnation not in a next life, but the next day.
The gulf between god and me is thus bridged. Thus by knowing god, we find that the kingdom of heaven is within us.
The cherokee people are not "my people".
The best way to cheer yourself up is to try to cheer somebody else up.
The great accomplishments of man have resulted from the transmission of ideas and enthusiasm.
For children to take morality seriously they must be in the presence of adults who take morality seriously. And with their own eyes they must see adults take morality seriously.
There is only one way to happiness, and that is to cease worrying things which are beyond the power of our will.
If a man can realize his divine nature with the help of an image, would it be right to call that a sin ? Nor, even when he has passed that stage, should he call it an error. Man is not traveling from error to truth, but from truth to truth, from lower to higher truth. To him all the religions from the lowest fetishism to the highest absolutism, mean so many attempts of the human soul to grasp and realize the infinite, each determined by the conditions of its birth and association, and each of these marks a stage of progress, and every soul is a young eagle soaring higher and higher, gathering more and more strength till it reaches the glorious sun.
Example sheds a genial ray which men are apt to borrow, so first improve yourself today, and then your friends tomorrow.
No matter how small, acknowledge the achievement.
To go against the dominant thinking of your friends, of most of the people you see every day, is perhaps the most difficult act of heroism you can perform.
There are two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as though everything is a miracle.
What ever you are be a good one.
Power is not really good or bad , it is neutral. Power itself is not negative or positive, although our feelings about it may be. Power is the potential to influence others for good or evil, to be a blessing or a scourge. Like nuclear energy, it can provide the electricity to light a city, or it can fuel the bomb that destroys it.
When I was a boy of 14, my father was so ignorant I could hardly stand to have the old man around. But when I got to be 21, I was astonished by how much the old man had learned in 7 years.
One hundred percent of the shots you don't take don't go in.
Give a man a fish and he will eat for the day, teach a man to fish and he will eat for a lifetime.
In spite of everything, I still believe that people are really good at heart.
The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the source of all true art and all science. He to whom this emotion is a stranger, who can no longer pause to wonder and stand rapt in awe, is as good as dead, his eyes are closed.
Effective communication is 20% what you know and 80% how you feel about what you know.
The last miracle I did was the 1969 Mets. Before that, I think you have to go back to the Red Sea.
I am big ! It's the pictures that got small.
As strong as my legs are, it is my mind that has made me a champion.
Part of being a winner is knowing when enough is enough. Sometimes you have to give up the fight and walk away, and move on to something that's more productive.
What lies behind us, and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us.
All men are created equal. Government by consent of the governed. Give me liberty or give me death. And those are not just clever words, and those are not just empty theories.
Experience is the best teacher.
In the hopes of reaching the moon men fail to see the flowers that blossom at their feet.
Knowledge of what is possible is the beginning of happiness.
I am resolved that I will not through my humility become the devil's attorney. I will endeavor to speak a good word for the truth.
Hatred stirreth up strifes, but love covereth all sins.
A way of life can not be successful so long as it is mere intellectual conviction. It must be deeply felt, deeply believed, dominant even in dreams.
All of the subjects that I've chosen have had to do with isolation. ... The whole idea of [people] gathering ... doesn't really appeal to me.
You'll find boredom where there is an absence of a good idea.
Happiness does not depend on outward things, but on the way we see them.
If you want to make your dreams come true, the first thing you have to do is wake up.
Don't dream it be it.
First rule of fight club is, you do not talk about fight Club.
Peace can not be kept by force. It can only be achieved by understanding.
To catch lots of fish, you must first go to the water. To dare is to lose one's footing momentarily. To not dare is to lose oneself.
The only thing we have to fear is fear itself.
Discipline is the bridge between goals and accomplishment.
Whatever is at the center of our life will be the source of our security, guidance, wisdom, and power.
It has been my philosophy of life that difficulties vanish when faced boldly.
Never pretend to a love which you do not actually feel, for love is not ours to command.
Opportunities multiply as they are seized ; they die when neglected. Life is a long line of opportunities.
Man has been endowed with reason, with the power to create, so that he can add to what he's been given. But up to now he hasn't been a creator, only a destroyer. Forests keep disappearing, rivers dry up, wild life's become extinct, the climate's ruined and the land grows poorer and uglier every day.
Effective people are not problem-minded , they're opportunity-minded. They feed opportunities and starve problems.
You will become as small as your controlling desire, as great as your dominant aspiration.
If there is something to gain and nothing to lose by asking, by all means ask.
You must think of failure and defeat as the spring boards to new achievements, and to the next level of accomplishment.
Whoever undertakes to set himself up as a judge of Truth and Knowledge is shipwrecked by the laughter of the gods.
True progress quietly and persistently moves along without notice.
In learning you will teach, and in teaching you will learn.
Never giving up and pushing forward will unlock all the potential we are capable of.
Every hero becomes a bore at last.
Be Here Now.
The longer the excuse, the less likely it's the truth.
Wouldja do me a favor, Harry ? Drop dead !
One cannot think crooked and walk straight.
In order to form an immaculate member of a flock of sheep one must, above all, be a sheep.
Heroism on command, senseless violence, and all the loathsome nonsense that goes by the name of patriotism -- how passionately I hate them !
The vedanta recognizes no sin, it only recognizes error. And the greatest error, says the vedanta is to say that you are weak, that you are a sinner, a miserable creature, and that you have no power and you cannot do this and that.
Let your hopes, not your hurts, shape your future.
Love vanquishes time. To lovers, a moment can be eternity, eternity can be the tick of a clock.
Love consists in this, that two solitudes protect and touch and greet each other.
Success is achieved by those who try and keep trying with a positive mental attitude.
Love - the feeling - is a fruit of love, the verb.
All you need is love.
Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test a man's character, give him power.
Courage is not the absence of fear, but rather the judgment that something else is more important than fear. Ambrose Redmoon Courage is the first of the human qualities because it is the quality which guarantees all the others.
All power is within you. You can do anything and everything. Believe in that. Do not believe that you are weak, do not believe that you are half-crazy lunatics, as most of us do nowadays. Stand up and express the divinity within you. Truth is eternal.
And now here is my secret, a very simple secret. It is only with the heart that one can see rightly, what is essential is invisible to the eye.
Losers make promises they often break. Winners make commitments they always keep.
It is at the edge of a petal that love waits.
A bizarre sensation pervades a relationship of pretense. No truth seems true. A simple morning's greeting and response appear loaded with innuendo and fraught with implications. Each nicety becomes more sterile and each withdrawal more permanent.
When defeat comes, accept it as a signal that your plans are not sound, rebuild those plans, and set sail once more toward your coveted goal.