Eleanor Roosevelt frasi celebri
“Nessuno può farvi sentire inferiori senza il vostro consenso.”
Attribuite
Origine: Si veda nota precedente. La fonte spesso citata per tale citazione, ovvero l'autobiografia This is my story, Harper, New York, 1937, è errata: la frase non compare in tale opera.
“Il futuro appartiene a coloro che credono nella bellezza dei propri sogni.”
Attribuite <br class="br">Origine: Citato in Mario Grasso, Punti di vista, FrancoAngeli, Milano, 2001, p. 30 http://books.google.it/books?id=08Td-bVxbTwC&pg=PA30#v=onepage&q&f=false. ISBN 88-464-3200-2 <br class="br">Origine: Secondo Ralph Keyes, in The Quote Verifier, Macmillan, 2007, non esistono prove che Eleanor Roosevelt abbia mai scritto o pronunciato tale frase: gli archivisti della biblioteca presidenziale "Franklin D. Roosevelt" in Hyde Park, a New York, non sono stati in grado di rintracciare tale citazione in alcuno degli scritti della First Lady.
Frasi sulla vita di Eleanor Roosevelt
Eleanor Roosevelt Frasi e Citazioni
Origine: Da una telefonata ad Arthur Schlesinger Jr. poco dopo l'elezione di Kennedy a Presidente degli Stati Uniti; citato in Arthur Schlesinger Jr., I mille giorni di John F. Kennedy, Milano, Rizzoli, 1966, p. 95.
Origine: Da You learn by living, 1960.
Origine: Citato in Kathleen McGowan, La promessa, traduzione di Roberta Maresca, Piemme, 2010, p. 235 http://books.google.it/books?id=Fvn5wc_qSV4C&pg=PT235#v=onepage&q&f=false. ISBN 9788858502303
Eleanor Roosevelt: Frasi in inglese
“You must do the thing you think you cannot do.”
Origine: You Learn by Living (1960), p. 29–30
Contesto: 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 have lived through this horror. I can take the next thing that comes along." … You must do the thing you think you cannot do.
“I am who I am today because of the choices I made yesterday.”
Not by Roosevelt, but from Steven Covey's Seven Habits of Highly Effective People (1989).
Misattributed
Foreword (January 1960)
You Learn by Living (1960)
Origine: You Learn by Living (1960), p. 29–30
Contesto: 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 have lived through this horror. I can take the next thing that comes along." … You must do the thing you think you cannot do.
“It is not fair to ask of others what you are unwilling to do yourself.”
Eleanor Roosevelt My Day
http://books.google.com/books?id=EcKZ8bbMLDMC&q=%22It+is+not+fair+to+ask+of+others+what+you+are+not+willing+to+do+yourself%22&pg=PA64#v=onepage
http://www.gwu.edu/~erpapers/myday/displaydoc.cfm?_y=1946&_f=md000366
15 June 1946
My Day (1935–1962)
“It is better to light a single candle than to curse the darkness.”
Variante: Light a candle instead of cursing the darkness.
Origine: This is My Story
“No one can make you feel inferior without your consent.”
Disputed <br class="br">Variante: No one can make you feel inferior without your permission. <br class="br">Origine: Sometimes claimed to appear in her book This is My Story, but in The Quote Verifier by Ralph Keyes (2006), Keyes writes on p. 97 that "Bartlett's and other sources say her famous quotation can be found in This is My Story, Roosevelt's 1937 autobiography. It can't. Quotographer Rosalie Maggio scoured that book and many others by and about Roosevelt in search of this line, without success. In their own extensive searching, archivists at the Franklin D. Roosevelt Library in Hyde Park, New York, have not been able to find the quotation in This Is My Story or any other writing by the First Lady. A discussion of some of the earliest known attributions of this quote to Roosevelt, which may be a paraphrase from an interview, can be found in this entry from Quote Investigator http://quoteinvestigator.com/2011/03/30/not-inferior/.
“Women are like tea bags. You never know how strong they are until you put them in hot water.”
Another quote often attributed to her without an original source in her writings, as in The Wit and Wisdom of Eleanor Roosevelt (1996), p. 199. But once again archivists have not been able to find the quote in any of her writings, see the comment from Ralph Keyes in The Quote Verifier above.
A very similar remark was attributed to Nancy Reagan, in The Observer (29 March 1981): "A woman is like a teabag — only in hot water do you realize how strong she is."
Variants:
A woman is like a teabag. You never know how strong she is until she gets into hot water.
A woman is like a tea bag, you can not tell how strong she is until you put her in hot water.
A woman is like a tea bag; you can't tell how strong she is and how much to trust her until you put her in hot water.
Disputed
As quoted in How to Stop Worrying and Start Living (1944; 1948) by Dale Carnegie; though Roosevelt has sometimes been credited with the originating the expression, "Damned if you do and damned if you don't" is set in quote marks, indicating she herself was quoting a common expression in saying this. Actually, this saying was coined back even earlier, 1836, by evangelist Lorenzo Dow in his sermons about ministers saying the Bible contradicts itself, telling his listeners, "… those who preach it up, to make the Bible clash and contradict itself, by preaching somewhat like this: 'You can and you can't-You shall and you shan't-You will and you won't-And you will be damned if you do-And you will be damned if you don't.' "
“The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams.”
Often attributed to Eleanor Roosevelt without an original source in her writings, for example in the introduction to It Seems to Me : Selected Letters of Eleanor Roosevelt (2001) by Leonard C. Schlup and Donald W. Whisenhunt, p. 2 http://books.google.com/books?id=UeFWjTMcLZYC&lpg=PP1&pg=PA2#v=onepage&q&f=false. But archivists have not been able to find the quote in any of her writings, see the comment from Ralph Keyes in The Quote Verifier above. <br class="br">Disputed
Preface (December 1960) to The Autobiography of Eleanor Roosevelt (1961), p. xix
“Happiness is not a goal… it's a by-product of a life well lived.”
Variante: Happiness is not a goal, it is a by-product.
Origine: You Learn by Living (1960), p. 95
Contesto: Happiness is not a goal, it is a by-product. Paradoxically, the one sure way not to be happy is deliberately to map out a way of life in which one would please oneself completely and exclusively.
As quoted in The Beacon Book of Quotations by Women (1992) by Rosalie Maggio, p. 130
Origine: You Learn by Living (1960), p. 14
Contesto: One thing life has taught me: if you are interested, you never have to look for new interests. They come to you. … All you need to do is to be curious, receptive, eager for experience. And there's one strange thing: when you are genuinely interested in one thing, it will always lead to something else.
