Donna Sager Cowan Favourite Quotes Collection

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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 should be curiosity.
Eleanor RooseveltBirthday 78
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Remember always that you not only have the right to be an individual, you have an obligation to be one.
Eleanor RooseveltUncategorized 77
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Nobody can make you feel inferior without your consent.
Eleanor RooseveltInferiority 198
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You wouldnt worry so much about what others think of you if you realized how seldom they do.
Eleanor RooseveltConfidence 88
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Character building begins in our infancy and continues until death.
Eleanor RooseveltCharacter 112
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A woman is like a tea bag. You never know how strong she is until she gets in hot water.
Eleanor RooseveltWoman 108
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Well behaved women rarely make history.
Eleanor RooseveltHistory 89
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Great minds discuss ideas; average minds discuss events; small minds discuss people
Eleanor RooseveltMotivation 236
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Perhaps nature is our best assurance of immortality.
Eleanor Rooseveltbest 107
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Happiness is not a goal...its a byproduct of a life well lived.
Eleanor RooseveltGoals 109
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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.
Eleanor RooseveltReading 83
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It is not more vacation we need - it is more vocation.
Eleanor RooseveltNeed 87
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Do not stop thinking of life as an adventure. You have no security unless you can live bravely excitingly imaginatively unless you can choose a challenge instead of competence.
Eleanor RooseveltMotivational 83
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It is nor fair to ask someone to do something you are not willing to do yourself.
Eleanor RooseveltWill 81
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You can never really live anyone else's life, not even your child's. The influence you exert is through your own life, and what you've become yourself.
Eleanor RooseveltLife 86
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People grow through experience if they meet life honestly and courageously. This is how character is built.
Eleanor RooseveltExperience 93
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You must do the things you think you cannot do.
Eleanor RooseveltThings 142
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All of life is a constant education.
Eleanor RooseveltEducation 115
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No one can make you feel inferior without your permission.
Eleanor RooseveltBest Life 173
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Happiness is not a goal; it is a by-product.
Eleanor RooseveltHappy 104
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When will our consciences grow so tender that we will act to prevent human misery rather than avenge it
Eleanor RooseveltIntegrity 145
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No matter how plain a woman may be if truth and honesty are written across her face she will be beautiful.
Eleanor RooseveltBeauty 115
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We are afraid to care too much, for fear that the other person does not care at all.
Eleanor RooseveltAfraid 152
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It is not fair to ask of others what you are not willing to do yourself.
Eleanor RooseveltActions 124
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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.
Eleanor Rooseveltbest 132
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It takes as much energy to wish as it does to plan.
Eleanor RooseveltPlanning 123
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You gain strength, courage, and confidence by every experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face. You are able to say to yourself, 'I lived through this horror. I can take the next thing that comes along.'
Eleanor RooseveltExperience 111
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Do one thing every day that scares you.
Eleanor RooseveltMotivation 154
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The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams.
Eleanor RooseveltBeauty 265
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It is better to light a candle than curse the darkness.
Eleanor RooseveltCandle 163
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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.
Eleanor RooseveltExperience 177
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What could we accomplish if we knew we could not fail
Eleanor RooseveltConfidence 149
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