Terrific minds focus on tips; average minds go over activities; little minds talk about people today. Eleanor Roosevelt More Quotes by Eleanor Roosevelt More Quotes From Eleanor Roosevelt I have a great belief in spiritual force, but I think we have to realize that spiritual force alone has to have material force with it so long as we live in a material world. The two together make a strong combination. Eleanor Roosevelt strong spiritual thinking Ability is not something to be saved, like money, in the hope that you can draw interest on it. The interest comes from the spending. Unused ability, like unused muscles, will atrophy. It is tragic to realize that the majority of human beings, even the so-called educated, call upon only the smallest fraction of their potential capacity. They leave many talents dormant. They fail to develop their mental qualities. They are almost unaware of the degree of energy upon which they might call to build a full and rewarding life. Eleanor Roosevelt quality energy might If you have to compromise, be sure to compromise up. Eleanor Roosevelt compromise ifs What we must learn to do is to create unbreakable bonds between the sciences and the humanities. We cannot procrastinate. The world of the future is in our making. Tomorrow is now. Eleanor Roosevelt unbreakable-bonds humanity world Life is meant to be lived. Eleanor Roosevelt meant-to-be life-is Losing money is a big loss, losing friends is greater than the loss, also lost all faith is lost Eleanor Roosevelt losing-friends loss lost Do one thing everyday that scares you. Those small things that make us uncomfortable help us build courage to do the work we do. Eleanor Roosevelt scare everyday helping I could never say in the morning, "I have a headache and cannot do thus and so". Headache or no headache, thus and so had to be done. Eleanor Roosevelt headache done morning You get strength and courage, when you stop to look fear in the face. Eleanor Roosevelt courage faces running People can only make you inferior with your consent. Eleanor Roosevelt consent inferiors people To tell the people in the West not to use their cars means that these people may never see another soul for weeks and weeks nor have a way of getting a sick person to a doctor. Eleanor Roosevelt doctors car mean Great leaders inspire people to have confidence in themselves. Eleanor Roosevelt leader inspire people You achieve strength, braveness and confidence by each experience in which you really halt to search dread during the deal with Eleanor Roosevelt dread achieve halt Autobiographies are only useful as the lives you read about and analyze may suggest to you something that you may find useful in your own journey through life. Eleanor Roosevelt autobiography journey may Because they have so little, children must rely on imagination rather than experience. Eleanor Roosevelt imagination littles children The basis of all good human behavior is kindness. Eleanor Roosevelt bases behavior kindness The people who came to New England, came for freedom of religion. The problem is, freedom of religion to them meant freedom for only their religion Eleanor Roosevelt england problem people If you believe that a nation is really better off which achieves for a comparative few, those who are capable of attaining it, high culture, ease, opportunity, and that these few from their enlightenment should give what they consider best to those less favored, then you naturally belong to the Republican Party. But if you believe that people must struggle slowly to the light for themselves, then it seems to me that you are a Democrat. Eleanor Roosevelt party struggle believe I have often felt that I cheated my children a little. I was never so totally theirs as most mothers are. I gave to audiences whatbelonged to my children, got back from audiences the love my children longed to give me. Eleanor Roosevelt mother giving children ... the next war will be a war in which people not armies will suffer, and our boasted, hard-earned civilization will do us no good. Cannot the women rise to this great opportunity and work now, and not have the double horror, if another war comes, of losing their loved ones, and knowing that they lifted no finger when they might have worked hard? Eleanor Roosevelt army opportunity war
