When will our consciences grow so tender that we will act to prevent human misery rather than avenge it?

—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

More quotations tagged with “revenge”

Living hell is the best revenge.

—Adrienne E. Gusoff

Relationships give us a reason to live. Revenge.

—Ronnie Shakes

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Live well. It is the greatest revenge.

Revenge is a kind of wild justice, which the more man's nature runs to the more ought law to weed it out.

—Francis Bacon

In taking revenge, a man is but even with his enemy; but in passing it over, he is superior.

—Francis Bacon

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