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Laugh if you are wise.
—Martial (Ancient Roman Latin Poet)

Disappointment can come only to those who make appointments with the future.
—Swami Chinmayananda (Indian Hindu Teacher)

Only cowards insult dying majesty.
—Aesop (Greek Fabulist)

All business depends upon men fulfilling their responsibilities.
—Mohandas K. Gandhi (Indian Hindu Political leader)

A man’s work is nothing but this slow trek to rediscover, through the detours of art, those two or three great and simple images in whose presence his heart first opened.
—Albert Camus (Algerian-born French Philosopher)

Little things affect little minds.
—Benjamin Disraeli (British Head of State)

Riches go to that lion among men, who is industrious. Mean people say that wealth is to be given by fate. Overcome your destiny and put in best efforts by working hard. Who is there to blame if there is no accomplishment despite your efforts?
—Hitopadesha

One night alone in prayer might make us new men, changed from poverty of soul to spiritual wealth, from trembling to triumphing.
—Charles Spurgeon (British Baptist Preacher)

If you always give, you will always have.
—Chinese Proverb

It is easy enough to be friendly to one’s friends. But to befriend the one who regards himself as your enemy is the quintessence of true religion. The other is mere business.
—Mohandas K. Gandhi (Indian Hindu Political leader)

When peace is more valued than the entertainment of the insatiable ego, it will be discovered to be ever present and available.
—David R. Hawkins

One cannot manage too many affairs: like pumpkins in the water, one pops up while you try to hold down the other.
—Chinese Proverb

I have always found that mercy bears richer fruits than strict justice.
—Abraham Lincoln (American Head of State)

Disbelief in futurity loosens in a great measure the ties of morality, and may be for that reason pernicious to the peace of civil society.
—David Hume (Scottish Philosopher, Historian)

We don’t have to let go, we simply have to not hold on.
—Joseph Goldstein (American Buddhist Teacher)

It’s important to focus on what we do best and master one craft at a time.
—Russell Simmons (American Entrepreneur)

To lose patience is to lose the battle.
—Mohandas K. Gandhi (Indian Hindu Political leader)

Courage is reckoned the greatest of all virtues; because, unless a man has that virtue, he has no security for preserving any other.
—Samuel Johnson (British Essayist)

As a cure for worrying, work is better than whiskey.
—Thomas Edison (American Inventor)

With lies you may go ahead in the world, but you can never go back.
—Russian Proverb

The moment you stop worrying about success is when success will happen.
—Glenn Beck (American Mormon Children’s Books Writer)

The journey is the reward.
—Chinese Proverb

Criticism may not be agreeable, but it is necessary. It fulfils the same function as pain in the human body. It calls attention to an unhealthy state of things.
—Winston Churchill (British Head of State)

If you want to have life, you have to die every moment for it. Life and death are only different expressions of the same thing looked at from different standpoints; they are the falling and the rising of the same wave, and the two form one whole.
—Swami Vivekananda (Indian Hindu Mystic)

But what is happiness except the simple harmony between a man and the life he leads?
—Albert Camus (Algerian-born French Philosopher)

If history repeats itself, and the unexpected always happens, how incapable must Man be of learning from experience!
—George Bernard Shaw (Irish Playwright)

The most fertile soil does not necessarily produce the most abundant harvest. It is the use we make of our faculties which renders them valuable.
—Thomas Wentworth Higginson (American Unitarian Minister)

Advanced countries of today have reached their present affluence through domination of other races and countries…Their sheer ruthlessness, undisturbed by feelings of compassion or by abstract theories of freedom, equality or justice, gave them a head start.
—Indira Gandhi (Indian Head of State)

You find a way, somehow to get through the most horrible things, things you think would kill you. You find a way and you move through the days, one by one, in shock, in despair, but you move. The days pass, one after the other, and you go along with them – occasionally stunned, and not entirely relieved, to find that you are still alive.
—Michelle Richmond (American Novelist)

The greatest and noblest pleasure which men can have in this world is to discover new truths; and the next is to shake off old prejudices.
—Frederick II of Prussia (Prussian Monarch)

The more comfort becomes your priority, the more contracted you become with fear.
—T. Harv Eker (American Motivational Speaker)

Time is the product of changing realities, beings, existences.
—Nikolai Berdyaev (Russian Christian Philosopher)

In small proportions we just beauties see,|And in short measures life may perfect be.
—Ben Jonson (English Dramatist)

Leaders don’t create followers, they create more leaders.
—Tom Peters (American Management Consultant)

Only friends will tell you the truths you need to hear to make … your life bearable.
—Francine du Plessix Gray (Polish-born American Author)

Bad behavior and irrational decisions are almost always caused by fear. If you want to change the behavior, address the fear.
—Seth Godin (American Entrepreneur)

When work is a pleasure, life is joy. When work is a duty, life is slavery.
—Maxim Gorky (Russian Writer)

Love looks forward, hate looks back, anxiety has eyes all over its head.
—Mignon McLaughlin (American Journalist)

Let us be grateful to people who make us happy; they are the charming gardeners who make our souls blossom.
—Marcel Proust (French Novelist)

We will discover the nature of our particular genius when we stop trying to conform to our own or to other people’s models, learn to be ourselves, and allow our natural channel to open.
—Shakti Gawain (American Author)

The human voice can never reach the distance that is covered by the still small voice of conscience.
—Mohandas K. Gandhi (Indian Hindu Political leader)

Love what you do. Believe in your instincts. And you’d better be able to pick yourself up and brush yourself off every day.
—Mario Andretti (Italian-born American Sportsperson)

Stripped of all their masquerades, the fears of men are quite identical: the fear of loneliness, rejection, inferiority, unmanageable anger, illness and death.
—Joshua L. Liebman (American Jewish Rabbi)

You know you’re in love when you don’t want to fall asleep because reality is finally better than your dreams.
—Theodor Seuss Geisel (‘Dr. Seuss’) (American Children’s Books Writer)

What is there in man so worthy of honor and reverence as this, that he is capable of contemplating something higher than his own reason, more sublime than the whole universe—that Spirit which alone is self-subsistent, from which all truth proceeds, without which is no truth?
—Friedrich Heinrich Jacobi (German Philosopher)

Courageous people do not fear forgiving for the sake of peace.
—Nelson Mandela (South African Political leader)

If we cannot live so as to be happy, let us at least live so as to deserve it.
—Immanuel Hermann Fichte (German Philosopher)

One cannot spend forever sitting and solving the mysteries of one’s history.
—Lemony Snicket

Wherever a man turns he can find someone who needs him.
—Albert Schweitzer (French Theologian)

Whenever you take a step forward, you are bound to disturb something. You disturb the air as you go forward, you disturb the dust, the ground. You trample upon things. When a whole society moves forward, this trampling is on a much bigger scale; and each thing that you disturb, each vested interest which you want to remove, stands as an obstacle.
—Indira Gandhi (Indian Head of State)

We should not mourn for men of high ideals. Rather we should rejoice that we had the privilege of having had them with us, to inspire us by their radiant personalities.
—Indira Gandhi (Indian Head of State)

Unquestionably, it is possible to do without happiness; it is done involuntarily by nineteen-twentieths of mankind.
—John Stuart Mill (English Philosopher, Economist)

Make it a practice to judge persons and things in the most favorable light at all times and under all circumstances.
—Vincent de Paul (French Catholic Saint)

I hope to work, support my children and die quietly without pain.
—Sean Connery (Scottish Actor)

We protract the career of time by employment, we lengthen the duration of our lives by wise thoughts and useful actions. Life to him who wishes not to have lived in vain is thought and action.
—Johann Georg Ritter von Zimmermann

Self-understanding rather than self-condemnation is the way to inner peace and mature conscience.
—Joshua L. Liebman (American Jewish Rabbi)

The only way to earn what you’re really worth is to get paid based on your results.
—T. Harv Eker (American Motivational Speaker)

The family is the school of duties… founded on love.
—Felix Adler

The world has achieved brilliance without wisdom, power without conscience. Ours is a world of nuclear giants and ethical infants.
—Omar Bradley (American Military Leader)

If you want to know what you think of yourself, then ask yourself what you think of others and you will find the answer.
—Unknown

Much may be done in those little shreds and patches of time which every day produces, and which most men throw away.
—Charles Caleb Colton (English Angelic Priest)

To forgive is not to forget. The merit lies in loving in spite of the vivid knowledge that the one that must be loved is not a friend.
—Mohandas K. Gandhi (Indian Hindu Political leader)

An insincere and evil friend is more to be feared than a wild beast; a wild beast may wound your body, but an evil friend will wound your mind.
—Buddhist Teaching

Sin has many tools, but a lie is the handle which fits them all.
—Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr. (American Physician)

Awareness requires a rupture with the world we take for granted; then old categories of experience are called into question and revised.
—Shoshana Zuboff

A man who has committed a mistake and doesn’t correct it is committing another mistake.
—Confucius (Chinese Philosopher)

Prayer is communion with God, usually comprising petition, adoration, praise, confession, and thanksgiving.
—The Holy Bible (Scripture in the Christian Faith)

Never does the human soul appear so strong as when it forgoes revenge, and dares forgive an injury.
—Edwin Hubbell Chapin (American Universalist Preacher)

Believe nothing of what you hear, and only half of what you see.
—Common Proverb

I look at what I have not and think myself unhappy; others look at what I have and think me happy.
—Philibert Joseph Roux (French Surgeon)

It’s the birthday of Franklin Delano Roosevelt, one of the most admired Presidents of the United States. The 32nd President is widely known by his initials, FDR.

Roosevelt led the United States during some of its most challenging times, both domestically and internationally. He is most renowned for his socio-economic policies to resolve the Great Depression, his decision to enter the war after Japan attacked Pearl Harbor in 1941, and the eventual victory of the Allied forces in World War II. His presidency transformed the President of the United States into the most powerful elected official in the world.

FDR is the longest-serving president of the United States. He died three months into his fourth term in office, just weeks before the surrender of Germany in World War II. Time Magazine named Franklin Roosevelt as a runner-up (along with Mohandas Gandhi) in the Person of the Century recognition.

Roosevelt was known for his warm-heartedness and humility. He triumphed over a physical disability—at age 39, FDR suffered a polio attack that practically paralyzed his legs and confined him to a wheelchair for the rest of his life.

FDR is also legendary for his collections of stamps, coins, medals, printings, models of various artifacts, walking sticks, paintings and photographs of naval vessels, stuffed animals, etc. He was the first president to set up a Presidential Library. The Franklin D. Roosevelt Presidential Library and Museum located in his birthplace of Hyde Park, New York, houses his presidential papers and collections.

See also quotes by his wife, Eleanor Roosevelt, and by his distant cousin, Theodore Roosevelt, the 26th President of the United States.

Inspirational Quotations by Franklin D. Roosevelt

The only limit to our realization of tomorrow will be our doubts of today. Let us move forward with strong and active faith.
—Franklin D. Roosevelt (American Head of State)

Happiness lies not in the mere possession of money; it lies in the joy of achievement, in the thrill of creative effort. The joy and moral stimulation of work no longer must be forgotten in the mad chase of evanescent profits. These dark days will be worth all they cost us if they teach us that our true destiny is not to be ministered unto but to minister to ourselves and to our fellow men.
—Franklin D. Roosevelt (American Head of State)

Those who have long enjoyed such privileges as we enjoy, forget in time that men have died to win them.
—Franklin D. Roosevelt (American Head of State)

If you treat people right they will treat you right—ninety percent of the time.
—Franklin D. Roosevelt (American Head of State)

Men are not prisoners of fate, but only prisoners of their own minds.
—Franklin D. Roosevelt (American Head of State)

A great man left a watchword that we can well repeat: There is no indispensable man.
—Franklin D. Roosevelt (American Head of State)

Human kindness has never weakened the stamina or softened the fiber of a free people. A nation does not have to be cruel in order to be tough.
—Franklin D. Roosevelt (American Head of State)

Remember you are just an extra in everyone else’s play.
—Franklin D. Roosevelt (American Head of State)

We can’t always build the future for our youth, but we can build our youth for the future.
—Franklin D. Roosevelt (American Head of State)

We have always known that heedless self-interest was bad morals; we know now that it is bad economics.
—Franklin D. Roosevelt (American Head of State)

The test of our progress is not whether we add more to the abundance of those who have much it is whether we provide enough for those who have little.
—Franklin D. Roosevelt (American Head of State)

Confidence… thrives on honesty, on honor, on the sacredness of obligations, on faithful protection and on unselfish performance. Without them it cannot live.
—Franklin D. Roosevelt (American Head of State)

Freedom to learn is the first necessity of guaranteeing that man himself shall be self-reliant enough to be free.
—Franklin D. Roosevelt (American Head of State)

Peace, like charity, begins at home.
—Franklin D. Roosevelt (American Head of State)

When I decided to go into politics I weighted the costs. I would get criticism. But I went ahead. So when virulent criticism came I wasn’t surprised. I was better able to handle it.
—Herbert Hoover (American Head of State)

Faith is believing where we cannot prove.
—Alfred, Lord Tennyson (British Poet)

A sailor chooses the wind that takes the ship from a safe port. Ah, yes, but once you’re abroad, as you have seen, winds have a mind of their own. Be careful of the wind you choose.
—Avi (Edward Irving Wortis) (American Writer)

You’ve got to get up every morning with a smile on your face, and show the world all the love in your heart, then people gonna treat you better. You’re gonna find, yes, you will, that you’re beautiful as you feel.
—Carole King (American Singer)

The world looks like a mathematical equation which, turn it how you will, balances itself. Every secret is told, every crime is punished, every virtue rewarded, every wrong redressed, in silence and certainty.
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (American Philosopher)

The fact is, nothing comes; at least, nothing good. All has to be fetched.
—Charles Buxton

Every evil to which we do not succumb is a benefactor.—As the Sandwich Islander believes that the strength and valor of the enemy he kills passes into himself, so we gain the strength of the temptation we resist.
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (American Philosopher)

Man often becomes what he believes himself to be. If I keep on saying to myself that I cannot do a certain thing, it is possible that I may end by really becoming incapable of doing it. On the contrary, if I shall have the belief that I can do it, I shall surely acquire the capacity to do it, even if I may not have it at the beginning.
—Mohandas K. Gandhi (Indian Hindu Political leader)

In minds crammed with thoughts, organs clogged with toxins, and bodies stiffened with neglect, there is just no space for anything else.
—Alison Rose Levy