Eleanor Roosevelt

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• Great minds discuss ideas. Average minds discuss events. Small minds discuss people.

  • Ideas

• No one can make you feel inferior without your consent.

• A woman is like a tea bag. You never know how strong she is until she gets into hot water.

  • Women

All 31 quotes from Eleanor Roosevelt

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• No man is an island, entire of itself; every man is a piece of the continent.

  John Donne1572–1631No Man Is an Island (1624), Devotions Upon Emergent Occasions (1624), Meditation 17In context

• I came, I saw, I conquered.

  Julius Caesar100–44 BCInscription on the triumphal wagon reported in The Twelve Caesars by Suetonius, as translated by Robert Graves (1957).

  • Success

• The unexamined life is not worth living.

  Socrates470–399 BCThe Apology of Socrates (399 BC)

  • Philosophy