Eleanor Roosevelt: "Do what you feel in your heart to..."

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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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People grow through experience if they meet life honestly and courageously. This is how character is built.

—Eleanor Roosevelt

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You must do the things you think you cannot do.

—Eleanor Roosevelt

Courage is more exhilarating than fear, and in the long run it is easier. We do not have to become heroes overnight. Just a step at a time, meeting each thing that comes up, seeing it is not as dreadful as it appeared, discovering we have the strength to stare it down.

—Eleanor Roosevelt

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There is… a trait no other nation seems to possess in quite the same degree that we do—namely, a feeling of almost childish injury and resentment unless the world as a whole recognizes how innocent we are of anything but the most generous and harmless intentions.

—Eleanor Roosevelt

We started from scratch, every American an immigrant who came because he wanted change. Why are we now afraid to change?

—Eleanor Roosevelt

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To avoid criticism do nothing, say nothing, be nothing.

—Elbert Hubbard

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After all, one knows one's weak points so well, that it's rather bewildering to have the critics overlook them and invent others.

—Edith Wharton

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How much easier it is to be critical than to be correct.

—Benjamin Disraeli

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When I am abroad, I always make it a rule never to criticize or attack the government of my own country. I make up for lost time when I come home.

—Winston Churchill

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Wagner's music is better than it sounds.

—Edgar Wilson Nye

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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.

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.

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