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You have to accept whatever comes and the only important thing is that you meet it with courage and with the best that you have to give.

Eleanor Roosevelt

Courage

A little simplification would be the first step toward rational living, I think.

Eleanor Roosevelt

First

Living

Remember always that you not only have the right to be an individual, you have an obligation to be one.

Eleanor Roosevelt

Obligation

Right

Old age has deformities enough of its own. It should never add to them the deformity of vice.

One's philosophy is not best expressed in words; it is expressed in the choices one makes... and the choices we make are ultimately our responsibility.

Only a man's character is the real criterion of worth.

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

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

Eleanor Roosevelt

Fear

Care

Probably the happiest period in life most frequently is in middle age, when the eager passions of youth are cooled, and the infirmities of age not yet begun; as we see that the shadows, which are at morning and evening so large, almost entirely disappear at midday.

Never allow a person to tell you no who doesn't have the power to say yes.

Eleanor Roosevelt

Power

Since you get more joy out of giving joy to others, you should put a good deal of thought into the happiness that you are able to give.

Sometimes I wonder if we shall ever grow up in our politics and say definite things which mean something, or whether we shall always go on using generalities to which everyone can subscribe, and which mean very little.

Eleanor Roosevelt

Politics

Wonder

The Bible illustrated by Dore occupied many of my hours - and I think probably gave me many nightmares.

Eleanor Roosevelt

Bible

The giving of love is an education in itself.

The only advantage of not being too good a housekeeper is that your guests are so pleased to feel how very much better they are.