Eleanor Roosevelt frasi celebri

“Nessuno può farvi sentire inferiori senza il vostro consenso.”
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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.”
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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
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
“I could not at any age be content to take my place in a corner by the fireside and simply look on.”
Variante: I could not, at any age, be content to take my place by the fireside and simply look on. Life was meant to be lived.
Origine: You Learn by Living: Eleven Keys for a More Fulfilling Life
“Never be bored, and you will never be boring.”
Origine: You Learn by Living: Eleven Keys for a More Fulfilling Life
Origine: You Learn by Living: Eleven Keys for a More Fulfilling Life
“He who learns but does not think is lost. He who thinks but does not learn is in great danger.”
Origine: The Autobiography of Eleanor Roosevelt
“Anyone who thinks must think of the next war as they would of suicide.”
Origine: Eleanor and Franklin
Origine: You Learn by Living: Eleven Keys for a More Fulfilling Life
“Understanding is a two-way street.”
As quoted in Modern Quotations for Ready Reference (1947) by Arthur Richmond, p. 455
Origine: The Autobiography of Eleanor Roosevelt
My Day (1935–1962)
Origine: This is My Story
Contesto: If man is to be liberated to enjoy more leisure, he must also be prepared to enjoy this leisure fully and creatively. For people to have more time to read, to take part in their civic obligations, to know more about how their government functions and who their officials are might mean in a democracy a great improvement in the democratic processes. Let's begin, then, to think how we can prepare old and young for these new opportunities. Let's not wait until they come upon us suddenly and we have a crisis that we will be ill prepared to meet. (5 November 1958)
“Justice cannot be for one side alone, but must be for both.”
Origine: The Autobiography of Eleanor Roosevelt
Origine: You Learn by Living: Eleven Keys for a More Fulfilling Life
Origine: You Learn by Living: Eleven Keys for a More Fulfilling Life
“If you lose money you lose much,
If you lose friends you lose more,
If you lose faith you lose all.”
My Day: The Best of Eleanor Roosevelt's Acclaimed Newspaper Columns 1936-62
“Only a man's character is the real criterion of worth.”
22 August 1944
My Day (1935–1962)
Origine: You Learn by Living: Eleven Keys for a More Fulfilling Life