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No one can make you feel inferior without your consent.
Eleanor Roosevelt1884–1962
In the long run, we shape our lives and we shape ourselves. The process never ends until we die, and the choices that we make are ultimately our responsibility.
Eleanor Roosevelt1884–1962Foreword (January 1960)
A little simplification would be the first step toward rational living, I think.
Eleanor Roosevelt1884–1962
It is not fair to ask of others what you are not willing to do yourself.
Eleanor Roosevelt1884–1962My Day (1935–1962)
When you get to the end of your rope, tie a knot and hang on.
Franklin D. Roosevelt1882–1945
The only limit to our realization of tomorrow will be our doubts of today.
Franklin D. Roosevelt1882–1945
A radical is a man with both feet firmly planted in the air.
Franklin D. Roosevelt1882–1945Radio Address to the New York Herald Tribune Forum (26 October 1939)
Speak softly and carry a big stick.
Theodore Roosevelt1858–1919Letter to Henry L. Sprague (26 January 1900)
It is not the critic who counts: not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles or where the doer of deeds could have done better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood, who strives valiantly, who errs and comes up short again and again, because there is no effort without error or shortcoming, but who knows the great enthusiasms, the great devotions, who spends himself for a worthy cause; who, at the best, knows, in the end, the triumph of high achievement, and who, at the worst, if he fails, at least he fails while daring greatly, so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who knew neither victory nor defeat.
Theodore Roosevelt1858–1919Citizenship in a Republic (1910)
Do what you can, with what you have, where you are.
Theodore Roosevelt1858–1919Theodore Roosevelt — An Autobiography (1913), Ch. IX: Outdoors and Indoors, p. 336; the final statement “quoted by Squire Bill Widener” as well as variants of it, are often misattributed to Roosevelt himself.
Nothing in the world is worth having or worth doing unless it means effort, pain, difficulty… I have never in my life envied a human being who led an easy life. I have envied a great many people who led diffcult lives and led them well.
Theodore Roosevelt1858–1919Address in Des Moines, Iowa (4 November 1910)
It behooves every man to remember that the work of the critic is of altogether secondary importance, and that, in the end, progress is accomplished by the man who does things.
Theodore Roosevelt1858–1919
Avoid the base hypocrisy of condemning in one man what you pass over in silence when committed by another.
Theodore Roosevelt1858–1919
Envy is as evil a thing as arrogance.
Theodore Roosevelt1858–1919
A finer body of men has never been gathered by any nation than the men who have done the work of building the Panama Canal; the conditions under which they have lived and have done their work have been better than in any similar work ever undertaken in the tropics; they have all felt an eager pride in their work; and they have made not only America but the whole world their debtors by what they have accomplished.
Theodore Roosevelt1858–1919