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Do one thing every day that scares you.

Strength that goes wrong is even more dangerous than weakness that goes wrong.

Happiness is not a goal ... it's a by-product of a life well lived.

Obedience may have its uses, but it is no substitute for willing, uncoerced co-operation.

You [future first ladies] will feel that you are no longer clothing yourself, you are dressing a public monument.

Success in marriage depends on being able, when you get over being in love, to really love.

Some people are going to leave a mark on this world, while others will leave a stain.

Ambition is pitiless. Any merit that it cannot use it finds despicable.

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Life was meant to be lived.

We must want for others, not ourselves alone.

I do not want church groups controlling the schools of our country. They must remain free.

I consider those are rich who are doing something they feel worthwhile and which they enjoy doing.

The Bible illustrated by Dore occupied many of my hours - and I think probably gave me many nightmares.

I have a great objection to seeing anyone, particularly anyone whom I care about, lose his self-control.

All the water in the world cannot drown you unless it gets inside of you.

When it's better for everyone, it's better for everyone.

We face the future fortified with the lessons we have learned from the past. It is today that we must create the world of the future.

The will of the people shall be the basis of the authority of government ...

All of life is a constant education.

The greatest luxury I know is sitting up reading in bed.

Do something everyday that scares you,

We need not fear any isms if our democracy is achieving the ends for which it was established ...

We must preserve our right to think and differ.

You not only have a right to be an individual. You have a responsibility.

There is nothing to fear except fear it's self.

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.

I would not be happy unless I had some regular work to do every day and I imagine that I will always feel that way no matter how old I am.

Poor minds talk about people average minds talk about events great minds talk about ideas

Spiritual leadership should remain spiritual leadership and the temporal power should not become too important in any church.

No one won the last war, and no one will win the next war.

The people who came to New England, came for freedom of religion. The problem is, freedom of religion to them meant freedom for only their religion

It is often the people who refuse to assume any responsibility who are apt to be the sharpest critics of those who do.

I shall either find a way, or make one (attributed)

If you lose money you lose much,
If you lose friends you lose more,
If you lose faith you lose all.

I have often thought that less is expected of the president of a great corporation than of an American wife.

One of the first things we must get rid of is the idea that democracy is tantamount to capitalism.

If you must compromise, compromise up.

No one can insult you without your permission.

In business courtesy and efficiency have a symbiotic relationship.

Any citizen should be willing to give all that he has to give his country in work or sacrifice in times of crisis.

He who learns but does not think is lost. He who thinks but does not learn is in great danger.

The giving of love is an education in itself.

If we fail to meet our problems here, no one else in the world will do so. If we fail, the heart goes out of progressives throughout the world.

All wars eventually act as boomerangs and the victor suffers as much as the vanquished.

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.

Only a man's character is the real criterion of worth.

It is not fair to ask of others what you are not willing to do yourself.

I am opposed to 'right to work' legislation because it does nothing for working people, but instead gives employers the right to exploit labor.

Have convictions. Be friendly. Stick to your beliefs as they stick to theirs. Work as hard as they do.

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.

There is nothing to regret - either for those who go or for those who are left behind

If you have to compromise, be sure to compromise up.

Anyone who thinks must think of the next war as they would of suicide.

Everyone has the right to work, to free choice, to employment, to just and favorable conditions of work and to protectior against unemployment.

You achieve strength, braveness and confidence by each experience in which you really halt to search dread during the deal with

Keep us at tasks too hard for us that we may be driven to Thee for strength.

Life has got to be lived - that's all there is to it.

We will never have peace without friendship around the world.

Curiosity must be kept alive.

There is not human being from whom we cannot learn something if we are interested enough to dig deep.

We need emotional outlets in this country, and the more artistic people we develop the better it will be for us as a nation.

Women are like tea bags.They do not know how strong they are until they get into hot water.

Tomorrow is a mystery. Today is a gift. That is why it is called the present.

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

THE GREATEST GIVE YOU CAN GIVE A CHILD IS AN IMAGINATION

People can only make you inferior with your consent.

The economy of communism is an economy which grows in an atmosphere of misery and want.

If man is to be liberated to enjoy more leisure, he must also be prepared to enjoy this leisure fully and creatively.

You should always own a black dress because no one ever remembers a black dress.

It seems to me that it is the basic right of any human being to work.

If the use of leisure time is confined to looking at TV for a few extra hours every day, we will deteriorate as a people.

The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams.

Only I can let you disrepect me! Eleanore Roosevelt

I have never felt that anything really mattered but knowing that you stood for the things in which you believed and had done the very best you could.

Furnish an example, stop preaching, stop shielding, don't prevent self-reliance and initiative, allow your children to develop along thier own lines.

There are no have-to's, just choices

Each generation supposes that the world was simpler for the one before it.

A society in which there is widespread economic insecurity can turn freedom into a barren and vapid right for millions of people.

This living in a democracy is a problem, isn't it?

We gain courage and wisdom from every instance in which we stop to look fear in the face.

The mobilization of world opinion and methods of negotiation should be developed and used by every nation in order to strengthen the United Nations.

Everyone has the right to rest and leisure, including reasonable limitation of working hours and periodic holidays with pay.

Real prosperity can only come when everybody prospers.

We have reached a point today where labor-saving devices are good only when they do not throw the worker out of his job.

Unused ability, like unused muscles, will atrophy.

Without equality there can be no democracy.

Happiness isn't a goal. It's a by-product.

Some friends leave footprints in your heart

It is today that we create the world of the future.

It is not that you set the individual apart from society but that you recognize in any society that the individual must have rights that are guarded.

We must do that which we think we cannot.

We cannot exist as a little island of well-being in a world where two-thirds of the people go to bed hungry every night.

Men have to be reminded that women exist.

When life is too easy for us, we must beware or we may not be ready to meet the blows which sooner or later come to everyone, rich or poor.

A guest is really good or bad because of the host or hostess who makes being a guest an easy or a difficult task.

I know that we will be the sufferers if we let great wrongs occur without exerting ourselves to correct them.

Before we can make friends with anyone else, we must first make friends with ourselves.

I never thought of achievement. I just did what came along for me to do - the thing that gave me the most pleasure.

Never be bored, and you will never be boring.