No one can make you feel inferior without your consent.

—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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Beautiful young people are accidents of nature, but beautiful old people are works of art.

—Eleanor Roosevelt

One thing life has taught me: if you are interested, you never have to look for new interests. They come to you. When you are genuinely interested in one thing, it will always lead to something else.

—Eleanor Roosevelt

Friendship with oneself is all-important, because without it one cannot be friends with anyone else in the world.

—Eleanor Roosevelt

We are afraid to care too much, for fear that the other person does not care at all.

—Eleanor Roosevelt

So much attention is paid to the aggressive sins, such as violence and cruelty and greed with all their tragic effects, that too little attention is paid to the passive sins, such as apathy and laziness, which in the long run can have a more devastating and destructive effect upon society than the others.

—Eleanor Roosevelt

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Until you value yourself, you won't value your time. Until you value your time, you will not do anything with it.

—M. Scott Peck in The Road Less Traveled: A New Psychology of Love, Traditional Values and Spiritual Growth

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Self-love, self-respect, self-approval, and self-worth do not equal self-ish.

—Mandy Hale in The Single Woman

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Failure is an event, never a person.

—William D. Brown

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Someone out there is looking for exactly what you've got… and will never try and undercut your value or question your worth.

—Mandy Hale in The Single Woman

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When you are your own best friend, you don’t endlessly seek out relationships, friendships, and validation from the wrong sources because you realize that the only approval and validation you need is your own.

—Mandy Hale in The Single Woman

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