Eleanor Roosevelt: Zitate auf Englisch (seite 5)

“We do not have to become heroes overnight. Just a step at a time, meeting each thing that comes up, seeing it as not as dreadful as it appears, discovering that we have the strength to stare it down.”

“Pit race against race, religion against religion, prejudice against prejudice. Divide and conquer! We must not let that happen here.”

“The giving of love is an education in itself.”

“You get more joy out of the giving to others, and should put a good deal of thought into the happiness you are able to give.”

“Today is the oldest you've ever been, and the youngest you'll ever be again.”

“As for accomplishments, I just did what I had to do as things came along.”

“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.”

“We have to face the fact that either all of us are going to die together or we are going to learn to live together and if we are to live together we have to talk.”

“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.”

“The only things one can admire at length are those one admires without knowing why.”

“You should always own a black dress because no one ever remembers a black dress.”

“Remember always that you not only have the right to be an individual you have an obligation to be one.”

“Will people ever be wise enough to refuse to follow bad leaders or to take away the freedom of other people?”

“Character building begins in our infancy and continues until death.”

“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.”

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

“Be confident, not certain”

“If you can develop this ability to see what you look at, to understand its meaning, to readjust your knowledge to this new information, you can continue to learn and to grow as long as you live and you’ll have a wonderful time doing it.”

“Never be bored, and you will never be boring.”