Happiness is not a goal, it is a by-product. For what keeps our interest in life and makes us look forward to tomorrow is giving pleasure to other people. Eleanor Roosevelt More Quotes by Eleanor Roosevelt More Quotes From Eleanor Roosevelt It's your life-but only if you make it so. Eleanor Roosevelt ifs life What counts, in the long run, is not what you read; it is what you sift through your own mind; it is the ideas and impressions that are aroused in you by your reading. It is the ideas stirred in your own mind, the ideas which are a reflection of your own thinking, which make you an interesting person Eleanor Roosevelt reading reflection running To be a citizen in a democracy, a human being must be given a healthy start. Eleanor Roosevelt democracy citizens healthy A day out-of-doors, someone I loved to talk with, a good book and some simple food and music - that would be rest. Eleanor Roosevelt music love book As for accomplishments, I just did what I had to do as things came along. Eleanor Roosevelt accomplishment political motivational Love can often be misguided and do as much harm as good, but respect can do only good. It assumes that the other person's stature is as large as one's own, his rights as reasonable, his needs as important. Eleanor Roosevelt often-is important rights You always admire what you really don't understand. - Eleanor Roosevelt Eleanor Roosevelt admiring admiration admire Have convictions. Be friendly. Stick to your beliefs as they stick to theirs. Work as hard as they do. Eleanor Roosevelt sticks work friendly Somewhere along the line of development we discover what we really are and then make our real decision for which we are responsible. Make that decision primarily for yourself because you can never really live anyone else's lie, not even your child's. The influence you exert is through your own life and what you become yourself. Eleanor Roosevelt real life children Hate and force cannot be in just a part of the world without having an effect on the rest of it. Eleanor Roosevelt political hate peace Life has got to be lived - that's all there is to it. At seventy, I would say the advantage is that you take life more calmly. You know that 'this, too, shall pass!' Eleanor Roosevelt this-too-shall-pass advantage birthday We don't become heroes overnight." - One step at a time, eventually discovering we have the strength to stare it down. Eleanor Roosevelt one-step-at-a-time hero steps Anger is one letter short of danger. Eleanor Roosevelt wise positive inspirational No leader can be too far ahead of his followers. Eleanor Roosevelt followers leader inspirational Women are like tea bags.They do not know how strong they are until they get into hot water. Eleanor Roosevelt strong tea water The very next thing you need to be doing is the thing that terrifies you the most. Eleanor Roosevelt next needs We must want for others, not ourselves alone. Eleanor Roosevelt sacrifice attitude inspirational I believe you should tell the story of injustices, of inequalities, of bad conditions, so that the people as a whole in this country really face the problems that people who are pushed to the point of striking know all about, but others know practically nothing about. Eleanor Roosevelt believe country people It is a brave thing to have courage to be an individual; it is also, perhaps, a lonely thing. But it is better than not being an individual, which is to be nobody at all. Eleanor Roosevelt individual lonely brave Usefulness, whatever form it may take, is the price we should pay for the air we breathe and the food we eat and the privilege of being alive. Eleanor Roosevelt alive air may
