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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

The world is full of fools and faint hearts; and yet everyone has courage enough to bear the misfortunes, and wisdom enough to manage the affairs of his neighbor.
—Benjamin Franklin (American Political leader)

Each person is born to one possession which outvalues all his others—his last breath.
—Mark Twain (American Humorist)

Satisfaction with an experience depends significantly on our expectations going into it.
—Ben Casnocha (American Entrepreneur, Investor)

Most of us don’t recognize opportunity until we see it working for a competitor.
—Jay Huenfeld

To forgive is the highest, most beautiful form of love. In return, you will receive untold peace and happiness.
—Robert Muller

The deed is everything, the glory naught.
—Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (German Poet)

For a righteous man falls seven times, and rises again, But the wicked stumble in time of calamity.
—The Holy Bible (Scripture in the Christian Faith)

Freedom is not worth having if it does not connote freedom to err. It passes my comprehension how human beings, be they ever so experienced and able, can delight in depriving other human beings of that precious right.
—Mohandas K. Gandhi (Indian Hindu Political leader)

He who does not shield himself from vilification receives it.
—Arabic Proverb

One cannot and must not try to erase the past merely because it does not fit the present.
—Golda Meir (Israeli Head of State)

Take yourself as you are, whole, and do not try to live by one part alone and starve the other.
—Janet Erskine Stuart (English Catholic Nun)

The grand essentials to happiness in this life are something to do, something to love, and something to hope for.
—George Washington Burnap

All humanity is one undivided and indivisible family, and each one of us is responsible for the misdeeds of all the others. I cannot detach myself from the wickedest soul.
—Mohandas K. Gandhi (Indian Hindu Political leader)

Coaches who can outline plays on a black board are a dime a dozen. The ones who win get inside their player and motivate.
—Vince Lombardi, Jr.

The ideal of beauty is simplicity and tranquility.
—Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (German Poet)

You cannot govern the creative impulse; all you can do is to eliminate obstacles and smooth the way for it.
—Kimon Nicolaides

The fox knows many things, but the hedgehog knows one big thing.
—Archilochus

Zeal will do more than knowledge.
—William Hazlitt (English Essayist)

Everything you need for your better future and success has already been written. And guess what? It’s all available. All you have to do is go to the library.
—Jim Rohn (American Entrepreneur)

The real glory is being knocked to your knees and then coming back. That’s real glory. That’s the essence of it.
—Vince Lombardi (American Sportsperson)

A disciplined conscience is a man’s best friend.—It may not be his most amiable, but it is his most faithful monitor.
—Austin Phelps (American Presbyterian Clergyman)

Asks the Possible of the Impossible, “Where is your dwelling-place?” “In the dreams of the Impotent,” comes the answer.
—Rabindranath Tagore (Indian Hindu Polymath)

That which can be destroyed by the truth should be. That which the truth nourishes should thrive.
—Eliezer Yudkowsky (American Scientist)

To speak or not to speak—when that is the question, silence should take the place of speech.
—Mohandas K. Gandhi (Indian Hindu Political leader)

Realize that true happiness lies within you. Waste no time and effort searching for peace and contentment and joy in the world outside. Remember that there is no happiness in having or in getting, but only in giving. Reach out. Share. Smile. Hug. Happiness is a perfume you cannot pour on others without getting a few drops on yourself.
—Og Mandino

My creed is this: Happiness is the only good. The place to be happy is here. The time to be happy is now. The way to be happy is to make others so.
—Robert G. Ingersoll (American Atheist Politician)

Action is the foundational key to all success.
—Tony Robbins (American Actor Author)

A thought is an arrow shot at the truth; it can hit a point, but not cover the whole target. But the archer is too well satisfied with his success to ask anything farther.
—Sri Aurobindo (Indian Yogi, Nationalist)

No man chooses evil because it is evil; he only mistakes it for happiness, the good he seeks.
—Mary Wollstonecraft (British Children’s Books Writer)

Evolution is not finished; reason is not the last word nor the reasoning animal the supreme figure of Nature. As man emerged out of the animal, so out of man the superman emerges.
—Sri Aurobindo (Indian Yogi, Nationalist)

Everything actual must also first have been possible, before having actual existence.
—Albert Pike (American Military Leader)

Hate the sin & not the sinner is a percept which, though easy enough to understand, is rarely practiced, and therefore the poison of hatred spreads in the world.
—Mohandas K. Gandhi (Indian Hindu Political leader)

Those who are fired with an enthusiastic idea and who allow it to take hold and dominate their thoughts find that new worlds open for them. As long as enthusiasm holds out, so will new opportunities.
—Norman Vincent Peale (American Clergyman, Self-Help Author)

Fear collides with our most conservative self and allows us to stop before we try, dismiss before we think, mock before we imagine.
—Carol Lloyd

A prudent question is one-half of wisdom.
—Francis Bacon (English Philosopher)

Chance favors the prepared mind.
—Louis Pasteur (French Biologist)

The delight we inspire in others, has this enchanting peculiarity. That, unlike any other reflection, returns to us more radiant than ever.
—Victor Hugo (French Novelist)

Practice no vice because it’s trivial… Neglect no virtue because it’s so.
—Chinese Proverb

To be able to stand not knowing long enough for something alive to take shape.
—Lynda Barry (American Cartoonist)