Quotes, Quotations and Sayings

Life must be lived and curiosity kept alive. One must never, for whatever reason, turn his back on life.

If someone betrays you once it is their fault, if someone betrays you twice it is your fault.

Here is the answer which I will give to President Roosevelt. Give us the tools, and we will finish the job.

Meeting Franklin Roosevelt was like opening your first bottle of champagne; knowing him was like drinking it.

It is equality of monotony which makes the strength of the British Isles.

Happiness is not a goal, it is a by-product.

I believe that anyone can conquer fear by doing the things he fears to do, provided he keeps doing them until he gets a record of successful experience behind him.

A woman is like a teabag- only in hot water do you realize how strong she is.

We gain strength, and courage, and confidence by each experience in which we really stop to look fear in the face... we must do that which we think we cannot.

Women are like teabags. You dont know how strong they are until you put them in hot water.

People try so hard to believe in leaders now, pitifully hard. But we no sooner get a popular reformer or politician or soldier or writer or philosopher --a Roosevelt, a Tolstoy, a Wood, a Shaw, a Nietzsche, than the cross-currents of criticism wash him away. My Lord, no man can stand prominence these days. It's the surest path to obscurity. People get sick of hearing the same name over and over.

No woman has ever so comforted the distressed or distressed the comfortable. [On Eleanor Roosevelt]

Keep your eyes on the stars, and your feet on the ground. Theodore Roosevelt

Do one thing every day that scares you.

I think, at a child's birth, if a mother could ask a fairy godmother to endow it with the most useful gift, that gift would be curiosity.

Friendship with oneself is all important, because without it one cannot be friends with anyone else in the world.

All human beings have failings, all human beings have needs and temptations and stresses. Men and women who live together through long years get to know one another's failings; but they also come to know what is worthy of respect and admiration in those they live with and in themselves. If at the end one can say, This man used to the limit the powers that God granted him; he was worthy of love and respect and of the sacrifices of many people, made in order that he might achieve what he deemed to be his task, then that life has been lived well and there are no regrets.

Where, after all, do universal human rights begin? In small places, close to home- so close and so smallthat they cannot be seen on any map of the world. Yet they arethe world of the individual person: the neighborhood he lives in; the school or college he attends; the factory, farm, or office where he works. Such are the places where every man, woman, and child seeks equal justice, equal opportunity, and equal dignity without discrimination. Unless these rights have meaning there, they have little meaning anywhere. Without concerted citizen action to uphold them so close to home, we shall look in vain for progress in the larger world.

I have spent many years of my life in opposition and I like the role.

Do what you feel in your heart to be right. You'll be criticized anyway.

One's philosophy is not best expressed in words; it is expressed in the choices one makes. In the long run, we shape our lives and we shape ourselves. The process never ends until we die. And, the choices we make are ultimately our own responsibility.

We must uphold the promise of Roosevelt, Truman, Kennedy, Johnson, Carter, and Clinton and never allow the President and his Republican friends to threaten Social Security by putting it on the Wall Street trading block.

A woman is like a tea bag- you never know how strong she is until she gets in hot water.

Great minds discuss ideas; Average minds discuss events; Small minds discuss people.

Friendship with oneself is all-important, because without it one cannot be friends with anyone else in the world.

A trait no other nation seems to possess in quite the same degree that we do -- namely, a feeling of almost childish injury and resentment unless the world as a whole recognizes how innocent we are of anything but the most generous and harmless intentions.

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

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.

The reason that fiction is more interesting than any other form of literature, to those who really like to study people, is that in fiction the author can really tell the truth without humiliating himself.

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

Somewhere along the line of development we discover what we really are, and then we make our real decision for which we are responsible. Make that decision primarily for yourself because you can never really live anyone else's life, not even your own child's.

You gain strength, courage, and confidence by each experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face. You are able to say to yourself, ?I have lived through this horror. I can take the next thing that comes along.

Perhaps nature is our best assurance of immortality.

You must do the thing that you think you cannot do.

Nobody can make you feel inferior without your consent.

Perhaps in His wisdom the Almighty is trying to show us that a leader may chart the way, may point out the road to lasting peace, but that many leaders and many peoples must do the building.

If life were predictable it would cease to be life, and be without flavor.

Life was meant to be lived, and curiosity must be kept alive. One must never, for whatever reason, turn his back on life.

The purpose of life, after all, is to live it, to taste experience to the utmost, to reach out eagerly and without fear for newer and richer experiences.

It takes as much energy to wish as it does to plan.

What one has to do usually can be done.

If we want a free and peaceful world, if we want to make the deserts bloom and man grow to greater dignity as a human being-we can do it.

It is difficult to find a reputable American historian who will acknowledge the crude fact that a Franklin Roosevelt, say, wanted to be President merely to wield power, to be famed and to be feared. To learn this simple fact one must wade through a sea of

All Coolidge had to do in 1924 was to keep his mean trap shut, to be elected. All Harding had to do in 1920 was repeat ''Avoid foreign entanglements.'' All Hoover had to do in 1928 was to endorse Coolidge. All Roosevelt had to do in 1932 was to point to Hoover.

When you cease to make a contribution, you begin to die.

She [Eleanor Roosevelt] got even in a way that was almost cruel. She forgave them.

I think somehow we learn who we really are and then we live with that decision.

Understanding is a two-way street.

I am going to build the kind of nation that President Roosevelt hoped for, President Truman worked for, and President Kennedy died for.

No one can make you feel inferior without your consent.