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Eleanor Roosevelt, First Lady, diplomat, and architect of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights who turned crippling, gets quoted everywhere and sourced almost nowhere. The 6 quotes below are different: each one is checked word for word against the cited work, starting with You Learn by Living, not copied from aggregator sites that pass misattributions along. The source is named under every line, so you can trace each quote back to the page it came from.
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On refusing to let someone else's opinion define your worth:
No one can make you feel inferior without your consent.Eleanor Roosevelt, This Is My Story
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On applying for the role you feel underqualified for:
You must do the thing you think you cannot do.Eleanor Roosevelt, You Learn by Living
On choosing growth over staying safely where you are:
The purpose of life is to live it, to taste experience to the utmost, to reach out eagerly and without fear for newer and richer experience.Eleanor Roosevelt, You Learn by Living
On working on your own self-regard before dating again:
Friendship with oneself is all-important, because without it one cannot be friends with anyone else in the world.Eleanor Roosevelt, You Learn by Living
On stopping blame and owning a decision that went wrong:
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.Eleanor Roosevelt, You Learn by Living
On turning a vague wish into an actual plan:
It takes as much energy to wish as it does to plan.Eleanor Roosevelt, You Learn by Living