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"What I have learned from my own experience is that the most important ingredients in a child's education are curiosity, interest, imagination, and a sense of the adventure of life."
"No one can insult you without your permission."
"Do whatever comes your way to do as well as you can. Think as little as possible about yourself. Think as much as possible about other people. Dwell on things that are interesting. Since you get more joy out of giving joy to others, you should put a good deal of thought into the happiness that you are able to give."
"I am convinced that every effort must be made in childhood to teach the young to use their own minds. For one thing is sure: If they don't make up their minds, someone will do it for them."
"First of my own personal requirements is inner calm. This, I think, is an essential. One of the secrets of using your time well is to gain a certain ability to maintain peace within yourself so that much can go on around you and you can stay calm inside."
"We need not fear any isms if our democracy is achieving the ends for which it was established."
"How hard it is to project oneself into the future. We are always prone to think of the conditions which are with us today as being permanent conditions."
"Mozart, who was buried in a pauper’s grave, was one of the greatest successes we know of, a man who in his early thirties had poured out his inexhaustible gift of music, leaving the world richer because he had passed that way. To leave the world richer—that is the ultimate success."
"Great leaders inspire people to have confidence in themselves."
"It has been a long fight to put the control of our economic system in the hands of the government."
"The mobilization of world opinion and methods of negotiation should be developed and used by every nation in order to strengthen the United Nations."
"As life developed, I faced each problem as it came along. As my activities and work broadened and reached out, I never tried to shirk. I tried never to evade an issue. When I found I had something to do--I just did it."
"If you must compromise, compromise up."
"practically nothing we do ever stands by itself. If it is good, it will serve some good purpose in the future. If it is evil, it may haunt us and handicap our efforts in unimagined ways."
"I received a most amusing postcard the other morning. Unfortunately, it was not signed in a readable manner so I cannot answer it privately. But it comes from Moblie, Ala., and says: 'Dear Mrs. Roosevelt: You have not answered my question, the amount of Negro blood you have in your veins, if any.' I am afraid none of us know how much nor what kind of blood we have in our veins, since chemically it is all the same. And most of us cannot trace our ancestry more than a few generations."
"We need emotional outlets in this country, and the more artistic people we develop the better it will be for us as a nation."
"what we need in the world is manners ... I think that if, instead of preaching brotherly love, we preached good manners, we might get a little further. It sounds less righteous and more practical."
"Each time you learn something new you must readjust the whole framework of your knowledge"
"I wonder if one of the penalties of growing older is that you become more and more conscious that nothing is very permanent."
"Whatever come we have to meet it."