The giving of love is an education in itself.

—Eleanor Roosevelt

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About Eleanor Roosevelt

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Anna Eleanor Roosevelt ( EL-in-or ROH-zə-velt; October 11, 1884 – November 7, 1962) was an American political figure, diplomat, and activist. She was the longest-serving first lady of the United States, during her husband Franklin D. Roosevelt's four terms as president from 1933 to 1945. Through her travels, public engagement,...

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It is not fair to ask of others what you are not willing to do yourself.

—Eleanor Roosevelt

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.

—Eleanor Roosevelt

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You gain strength, courage and confidence by every experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face. You are able to say to yourself, 'I have lived through this horror. I can take the next thing that comes along.' You must do the thing you think you cannot do.

—Eleanor Roosevelt

A person has three choices in life. You can swim against the tide and get exhausted, or you can tread water and let the tide sweep you away, or you can swim with the tide, and let it take you where it wants you to go.

—Eleanor Roosevelt

Do what you feel in your heart to be right—for you'll be criticized anyway. You'll be damned if you do, and damned if you don't.

—Eleanor Roosevelt

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Rich gifts wax poor when givers prove unkind.

Purchase not friends by gifts; when thou ceasest to give, such will cease to love.

—William Shakespeare

We make a living by what we get, we make a life by what we give.

—Thomas Fuller

The spirit in which a thing is given determines that in which the debt is acknowledged; it's the intention, not the face-value of the gift, that's weighed.

—Winston Churchill

He doubly benefits the needy who gives quickly.

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