People grow through experience if they meet life honestly and courageously. This is how character is built.
Eleanor Roosevelt
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Have you ever watched someone become American? Last week, at a national citizenship conference I organize, thirty immigrants from 17 countries swore an oath and became citizens of the United States. It was a stirring experience for the hundreds of people in the room. -
Joy, rather than happiness, is the goal of life, for joy is the emotion which accompanies our fulfilling our natures as human beings. It is based on the experience of one's identity as a being of worth and dignity. -
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Fame will go by and, so long, I've had you, fame. If it goes by, I've always known it was fickle. So at least it's something I experience, but that's not where I live. -
When I was 27 years old, I organized legal aid clinics to help low-income seniors. It was a life-altering experience.
More quotes by Eleanor Roosevelt
- Old age has deformities enough of its own. It should never add to them the deformity of vice.
- 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.
- Justice cannot be for one side alone, but must be for both.
- The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams.
- 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.