Women are like teabags.
by Eleanor Roosevelt
Women are like teabags.
We don't know our true strength
until we are in hot water!
- 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
It is better to light a candle than to curse the darkness.
- Chinese proverb often quoted by Eleanor Roosevelt
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What one has to do usually can be done.
- Eleanor Roosevelt
As for accomplishments,
I just did what I had to do as things came along.
- Eleanor Roosevelt
No one can make you feel inferior without your consent.
- Eleanor Roosevelt
When you cease to make a contribution, you begin to die.
- 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
The giving of love is an education in itself.
- Eleanor Roosevelt
Understanding is a two-way street.
- Eleanor Roosevelt
Only a man's character is the real criterion of worth.
- Eleanor Roosevelt
What you don't do can be a destructive force.
- Eleanor Roosevelt
Remember always that you have not only the right to be an individual,
you have an obligation to be one.
- Eleanor Roosevelt
Do what you feel in your heart to be right.
You'll be criticized anyway.
- Eleanor Roosevelt
When will our consciences grow so tender
that we will act to prevent human misery rather than avenge it?
- Eleanor Roosevelt
You must do the thing that you think you cannot do.
- Eleanor Roosevelt
It is not more vacation we need -
it is more vocation.
- Eleanor Roosevelt
Happiness is not a goal; it is a by-product.
- Eleanor Roosevelt
A little simplification would be
the first step toward rational living.
- Eleanor Roosevelt
What is to give light must endure the burning.
- Eleanor Roosevelt
Never allow a person to tell you NO
who doesn't have the power to say YES.
- 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
I'm so glad I never feel important, it does complicate life!
- Eleanor Roosevelt
My experience has been that work is
almost the best way to pull oneself out of the depths.
- Eleanor Roosevelt
Justice cannot be for one side alone, but must be for both.
- Eleanor Roosevelt
Perhaps nature is our best assurance of immortality.
- Eleanor Roosevelt
People grow through experience
if they meet life honestly and courageously.
This is how character is built.
- Eleanor Roosevelt
Life must be lived and curiosity 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
It takes as much energy to wish as it does to plan.
- 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
Friendship with one's self is all important,
because without it one cannot be friends with anyone else in the world.
- Eleanor Roosevelt
If life were predictable
it would cease to be life,
and be without flavor.
- Eleanor Roosevelt
Great minds discuss ideas;
average minds discuss events;
small minds discuss people.
- Eleanor Roosevelt
Old age has deformities enough of its own.
It should never add to them the deformity of vice.
- 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
Women Sayings
Once made equal to man, woman becomes his superior.
- Socrates
Whenever a man or women is truly inspired,
it is because the same One Universal Spirit
is doing the inspiring.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
I want to live darkly and richly in my femaleness.
- Anais Nin
The real ornament of woman is her character, her purity.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
Well-behaved women seldom make history.
- Laurel Thatcher Ulrich
Friendship is not possible between two women
one of whom is very well dressed.
- Laurie Colwin
Women must try to do things as men have tried.
When they fail their failure must be
but a challenge to others.
- Amelia Earhart
Achievement seems to be connected with action.
Successful men and women keep moving.
They make mistakes, but they don't quit.
- Conrad Hilton
Many societies have educated their male children
on the simple device of teaching them not to be women.
- Margaret Mead
Men and women are not prisoners of fate,
but only prisoners of their own minds.
- Franklin D. Roosevelt
The difference between men friends and women friends
is that men tend to do things together,
women tend to just be together.
- Art Jahnke
To a philosopher all news,
as it is called, is gossip,
and they who edit and read it
are old women over their tea.
- Henry David Thoreau
I have thought a sufficient measure of civilization
is the influence of good women.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Like Sayings
Anger is like a thorn in the heart.
- Yiddish Proverb
Holding on to anger is like grasping a hot coal
with the intent of throwing it at someone else;
you are the one who gets burned.
- The Buddha
If I try to be like him, who will be like me?
- Yiddish proverb
Time, like life itself, has no inherent meaning.
We give our own meaning to time as to life.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Let your life lightly dance on the edges of Time
like dew on the tip of a leaf.
- Rabindranath Tagore
A person without a sense of humor
is like a wagon without springs.
It's jolted by every pebble on the road.
- Henry Ward Beecher
What if we just acted like everything was easy?
- Mary Anne Radmacher
"Be like me" is not a Golden Rule.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Sing like no one's listening,
love like you've never been hurt,
dance like nobody's watching,
and live like its heaven on earth.
- Mark Twain
We are most like God when we forgive.
- Anonymous
Minds are like parachutes.
They only function when they are open.
- James Dewar
Like an Eagle, May You Always Soar
High Above the Troubles of the World.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Kindness, like a boomerang, always returns.
- Anonymous
We have only this moment,
sparkling like a star in our hand -
and melting like a snowflake.
- Marie B. Ray
Like a Dolphin, I am Graceful, Powerful, and Compassionate.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Love is like the truth,
sometimes it prevails,
sometimes it hurts.
- Victor M. Garcia Jr.
Like an Owl, I am Alert, Patient, and Objective.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Time expands like a brightly colored balloon
when it is filled with joy.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Man's enemies are not demons, but human beings like himself.
- Lao Tzu
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