Success is not something that can be measured or worn on a watch or hung on a wall. It is not the esteem of colleagues, or the admiration of the community, or the appreciation of patients. Success is the certain knowledge that you have become yourself, the person you will meant to be from all time. That should be reward enough.
Everybody wants something.
When life is too easy for us, we must beware or we may not be ready to meet the blows which sooner or later come to everyone, rich or poor.
Freedom makes a huge requirement of every human being. With freedom comes responsibility. For the person who is unwilling to grow up, the person who does not want to carry his own weight, this is a frightening prospect.
What you don't do can be a destructive force.
A successful life for a man or for a woman seems to me to lie in the knowledge that one has developed to the limit the capacities with which one was endowed; that one has contributed something constructive to family and friends and to a home community; that one has brought happiness wherever it was possible; that one has earned one's way in the world, has kept some friends, and need not be ashamed to face oneself honestly.
the greatest luxury I know is sitting up reading in bed.
Women are like tea bags: put them in hot water and they get stronger.
I think we ought to impress on both our girls and boys that successful marriages require just as much work, just as much intelligence and just as much unselfish devotion, as they give to any position they undertake to fill on a paid basis.
On the whole our armed services have been doing pretty well in the way of keeping us defended, but I hope our State Department will remember that it is really the department of achieving peace.
I feel quite sure that what the American people lack is knowledge.
Success in marriage depends on being able, when you get over being in love, to really love....You never know anyone until you marry them.
It is our freedom to progress that makes us all want to live and to go on.
Every woman in public life needs to develop skin as tough as rhinoceros hide.
The choices we make are ultimately our responsibility.
I never thought of achievement. I just did what came along for me to do - the thing that gave me the most pleasure.
No writing has any real value which is not the expression of genuine thought and feeling.
I know that given great responsibility men sometimes change, but Mr. Nixon's Presidency would worry me.
I do not think that I am a natural born mother... If I ever wanted to mother anyone, it was my father.
There is nothing to fear except fear it's self.
It is always disagreeable to take stands. It is always easier to compromise, always easier to let things go. To many women, and I am one of them, it is extraordinarily difficult to care about anything enough to cause disagreement or unpleasant feelings, but I have come to the conclusion that this must be done for a time until we can prove our strength and demand respect for our wishes. We cannot even be of real service in the coming campaign and speak as a united body of women unless we have the respect of men and show that when we express a wish, we are willing to stand by it.
Do one thing everyday that scares you. Those small things that make us uncomfortable help us build courage to do the work we do.
We do not move forward by curtailing people's liberty because we are afraid of what they may do or say.
...so much attention is paid to the aggressive sins, such as violence and cruelty, and greed with all their tragic effects, that too little attention is paid to the passive sins, such as apathy and laziness, which in the long run can have a more devastating and destructive effect upon society than the others.
True patriotism springs from a belief in the dignity of the individual, freedom and equality not only for Americans but for all people on earth, universal brotherhood and good will, and a constant and earnest striving toward the principles and ideals on which this country was founded.
Friendship with ones self is all important, because without it one cannot be friends with anyone else in the world.
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.
The most important thing in any relationship is not what you get but what you give.... In any case, the giving of love is an education in itself.
Life has got to be lived - that's all there is to it. At seventy, I would say the advantage is that you take life more calmly. You know that 'this, too, shall pass!'
For instance, it is certain that women do not want a woman for President. Nor would they have the slightest confidence in her ability to fulfill the functions of that office.
Once your children are grown up and have children of their own, the problems are theirs and the less the older generation interferes the better.
What one has to do usually can be done.
To a certain extent I don't see any real need for socialism in the United States immediately, but things change and it may be that there will come a need for partial changes in our economy.
Everyone has the right to rest and leisure, including reasonable limitation of working hours and periodic holidays with pay.
No human being can ever "own" another, whether in friendship, love, marriage or parenthood. Many human relationships have been ruined and happiness far too often changed to misery by a failure to understand this.
Life must be lived and curiosity kept alive. One must never, for whatever reason, turn his back on life.
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.
I'm sure that all the drivers and motorcycle police had once been racing drivers and were eager to get back to that profession.
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.
Women are like tea bags.They do not know how strong they are until they get into hot water.
We need emotional outlets in this country, and the more artistic people we develop the better it will be for us as a nation.
It is impossible to be a cynic if you live a good deal with young people. Fundamentally, every young person has a feeling that the future is going to hold something of value.
Success must include two things: the development of an individual to his utmost potentiality and a contribution of some kind to one's world.
Most of the work that's done in the world gets done by people who weren't feeling all that well at the time that they did it.
Women are like teabags. We don't know our true strength until we are in hot water!
It is not more vacation we need — it is more vocation.
Campaign behavior for wives: Always be on time. Do as little talking as humanly possible. Lean back in the parade car so everybody can see the president.
it is always easier to do nothing than to try a new line of action.
I have learned long ago to possess my soul in patience and accept the inevitable.
It seems to me of great importance to teach children respect for life.
This living in a democracy is a problem, isn't it?
Strength that goes wrong is even more dangerous than weakness that goes wrong.
The future is literally in our hands to mold as we like. But we cannot wait until tomorrow. Tomorrow is now.
Actors are one family over the entire world.
Curiosity must be kept alive.
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.
The American Dream can no more remain static than can the American nation.... We cannot any longer take an old approach to world problems. They aren't the same problems. It isn't the same world. We must not adopt the methods of our ancestors; instead, we must emulate that pioneer quality in our ancestors that made them attempt new methods for a New World.
I once had a rose named after me and I was very flattered. But I was not pleased to read the description in the catalogue: no good in a bed, but fine up against a wall.
Poverty is an expensive luxury. We cannot afford it.
When you have decided what you believe, what you feel must be done, have the courage to stand alone and be counted
