...no one can afford not to be a man. No position can compensate for coming face to face with a robot when you are alone.
Eleanor RooseveltTags: individuality independence
...our children must learn...to face full responsibility for their actions, to make their own choices and cope with the results...the whole democratic system...depends upon it. For our system is founded on self-government, which is untenable if the individuals who make up the system are unable to govern themselves.
Eleanor RooseveltTags: democracy responsibility self-government
I am convinced that every effort must be made in childhood to teach the young to use their own minds. For one thing is sure: If they don't make up their minds, someone will do it for them.
Eleanor RooseveltTags: childhood decision-making
...no matter how avid they themselves may be for praise and appreciation, people are often niggardly in giving it to others, however merited it is.
Eleanor RooseveltTags: appreciation praise eleanor-roosevelt merit
...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 RooseveltTags: apathy laziness violence greed cruelty
To be mature you have to realize what you value most... Not to arrive at a clear understanding of one's own values is a tragic waste. You have missed the whole point of what life is for.
Eleanor RooseveltTags: values maturity eleanor-roosevelt
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 RooseveltTags: love respect eleanor-roosevelt
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 RooseveltTags: individuality conformity eleanor-roosevelt
No man is defeated without until he has first been defeated within.
Eleanor RooseveltTags: defeat eleanor-roosevelt
If you want a world ruled by law and not by force you must build up, from the very grassroots, a respect for law.
Eleanor RooseveltTags: law respect eleanor-roosevelt
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