It is better to light a candle than to curse the darkness. ...
by Eleanor Roosevelt
It is better to light a candle than to curse the darkness.
- Chinese proverb often quoted by Eleanor Roosevelt
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Sayings by Eleanor Roosevelt
With the new day comes new strength and new thoughts.
- Eleanor Roosevelt 
The future belongs to those
who believe in the beauty of their dreams.
- Eleanor Roosevelt
What one has to do usually can be done.
- Eleanor Roosevelt
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When you cease to make a contribution, you begin to die.
- Eleanor Roosevelt
The giving of love is an education in itself.
- Eleanor Roosevelt
No one can make you feel inferior without your consent.
- Eleanor Roosevelt
Understanding is a two-way street.
- Eleanor Roosevelt
Only a man's character is the real criterion of worth.
- Eleanor Roosevelt
It is not fair to ask of others
what you are not willing to do yourself.
- Eleanor Roosevelt
Nobody can make you feel inferior without your consent.
- Eleanor Roosevelt
What you don't do can be a destructive force.
- Eleanor Roosevelt
As for accomplishments,
I just did what I had to do as things came along.
- Eleanor Roosevelt
You must do the thing that you think you cannot do.
- Eleanor Roosevelt
When will our consciences grow so tender
that we will act to prevent human misery rather than avenge it?
- Eleanor Roosevelt
Do what you feel in your heart to be right.
You'll be criticized anyway.
- Eleanor Roosevelt
Happiness is not a goal; it is a by-product.
- Eleanor Roosevelt
It is not more vacation we need -
it is more vocation.
- Eleanor Roosevelt
What is to give light must endure the burning.
- Eleanor Roosevelt
I'm so glad I never feel important, it does complicate life!
- Eleanor Roosevelt
It isn't enough to talk about peace.
One must believe in it.
And it isn't enough to believe in it.
One must work at it.
- Eleanor Roosevelt
Remember always that you have not only the right to be an individual,
you have an obligation to be one.
- Eleanor Roosevelt
Never allow a person to tell you NO
who doesn't have the power to say YES.
- Eleanor Roosevelt
A little simplification would be
the first step toward rational living.
- Eleanor Roosevelt
Life must be lived and curiosity kept alive.
One must never, for whatever reason, turn his back on life.
- Eleanor Roosevelt
Women are like teabags.
We don't know our true strength
until we are in hot water!
- Eleanor Roosevelt
People grow through experience
if they meet life honestly and courageously.
This is how character is built.
- Eleanor Roosevelt
Old age has deformities enough of its own.
It should never add to them the deformity of vice.
- Eleanor Roosevelt
Friendship with one's self is all important,
because without it one cannot be friends with anyone else in the world.
- Eleanor Roosevelt
It takes as much energy to wish as it does to plan.
- Eleanor Roosevelt
Perhaps nature is our best assurance of immortality.
- Eleanor Roosevelt
My experience has been that work is
almost the best way to pull oneself out of the depths.
- Eleanor Roosevelt
Life was meant to be lived,
and curiosity must be kept alive.
One must never, for whatever reason,
turn his back on life.
- Eleanor Roosevelt
I have spent many years of my life in opposition,
and I rather like the role.
- Eleanor Roosevelt
Great minds discuss ideas;
average minds discuss events;
small minds discuss people.
- Eleanor Roosevelt
If life were predictable
it would cease to be life,
and be without flavor.
- Eleanor Roosevelt
Justice cannot be for one side alone, but must be for both.
- Eleanor Roosevelt
I think that somehow, we learn who we really are
and then live with that decision.
- Eleanor Roosevelt
Have convictions. Be friendly.
Stick to your beliefs as they stick to theirs.
Work as hard as they do.
- Eleanor Roosevelt
We are afraid to care too much, for fear
that the other person does not care at all.
- Eleanor Roosevelt
Better Sayings
Our faith gives us knowledge of something better.
- E. F. Schumacher
Love is a better teacher than duty.
- Albert Einstein
Kindness is better than piety.
- Yiddish Proverb
Try again. Fail again. Fail better.
- Samuel Beckett
Ignorance and bungling with love
are better than wisdom and skill without.
- Henry David Thoreau
Prevention is better than cure.
- Desiderius Erasmus
Sometimes good things fall apart
so better things can fall together.
- Marilyn Monroe
It is better to travel well than to arrive.
- The Buddha
It is better to displease the people
by doing what you know is right.
- William J. H. Boetcker
A bad peace is better than a good war.
- Yiddish Proverb
Better than a thousand hollow words,
is one word that brings peace.
- The Buddha
Positive thinking will let you do everything
better than negative thinking will.
- Zig Ziglar
The world is a better place because I am here.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Better late than never.
- Proverb
No one can give you better advice than yourself.
- Cicero
You can do what you have to do,
and sometimes you can do it
even better than you think you can.
- Jimmy Carter
It is better to learn late than never.
- Publilius Syrus
I release the familiar that I may better discover my inspiring future.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
It is far better to be alone,
than to be in bad company.
- George Washington
Well done is better than well said.
- Benjamin Franklin
Patience, persistence, and perseverance.
A little more each day, a little better each day.
Anger? perhaps there is a better way.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Perhaps it is better to be irresponsible and right,
than to be responsible and wrong.
- Winston Churchill
When you keep getting the wrong answers,
try asking better questions.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Better learn balance. Balance is key.
- Miyagi: character in the movie Karate Kid
Successful people ask better questions,
and as a result, they get better answers.
- Tony Robbins
I don't like that man.
I must get to know him better.
- Abraham Lincoln
Poverty with security is better than plenty
in the midst of fear and uncertainty.
- Aesop
It's better to burn out, than to fade away.
- Neil Young
Better to be a nettle in the side of your friend than his echo.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Almost always, the creative dedicated minority
has made the world better.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
It is better to be in chains with friends,
than to be in a garden with strangers.
- Persian Proverb
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