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.


Eleanor Roosevelt

  Email Quote to Friends   Link to Quote   Create Short URL  Publish Text About This Quote   Share on Facebook, Twitter, and more
  See Recommended Quotes For You

Related

You gain strength, courage and confidence by every experience in which you really stop to look fear ...
ELEANOR ROOSEVELT
You gain strength, courage, and confidence by every experience in which you really stop to look fear...
ELEANOR ROOSEVELT
You gain strength, courage, and confidence by every experience by which you really stop to look fear...
ELEANOR ROOSEVELT
You gain strength, courage, and confidence by every experience in which you really stop to look fear...
ELEANOR ROOSEVELT
You gain strength, courage, and confidence by every experience in which you really stop to look fear...
ELEANOR ROOSEVELT
You gain strength, courage, and confidence by every experience in which you stop to really look fear...
ELEANOR ROOSEVELT
You gain strength, courage and confidence by every experience in which you really stop to look fear ...
ELEANOR ROOSEVELT
The encouraging thing is that every time you meet a situation, though you may think at the time it i...
ELEANOR ROOSEVELT
Believe in yourself. You gain strength, courage, and confidence by every experience in which you sto...
ELEANOR ROOSEVELT
You gain strength, courage and confidence by every experience in which you’ve really stopped to lo...
HOTCH
We gain strength, and courage, and confidence by each experience in which we really stop to look fea...
ELEANOR ROOSEVELT
The encouraging thing is that every time you meet a situation, though you may think at the time it i...
ELEANOR ROOSEVELT
You must do the thing you think you cannot do. -Eleanor Roosevelt.
ELEANOR ROOSEVELT
Long-time viewing of Internet violence tend to change a person's temperament, making the person pron...
YOU QUANXI
If positive and healthy materials are absent, negative materials are sure to be dominant in the cybe...
YOU QUANXI
In a robust global business environment, our business units operated well in the first quarter. More...
HARRY YOU
The Board of Directors and I are pleased to recognize Peter's outstanding contribution to the succes...
HARRY YOU
We are pleased to close the books on 2004 following the painstaking review of almost five years of f...
HARRY YOU
Stand for something. Make your life mean something. Start where you are with what you have. You are ...
GERMANY KENT
Have the courage to do what you're not ready to do.
RICHIE NORTON
You gain strength & confidence with every success & it enrich yourself with valuable experience whic...
DR ANIL KUMAR SINHA
You must do the thing you think you cannot do
ELEANOR ROOSEVELT
You must do the thing you think you cannot do.
ELEANOR ROOSEVELT
We gain courage and wisdom from every instance in which we stop to look fear in the face.
ELEANOR ROOSEVELT
Effort: You must do the thing you think you cannot do.
ELEANOR ROOSEVELT
If you think you can do a thing or that you cannot do a thing, in either case you are right.
HENRY FORD
You have what others don't have. This is good news which means you can do what others can't do! You ...
ISRAELMORE AYIVOR
You've got to have confidence and trust in your cast. You have to have confidence and trust in y...
REID SCOTT
Little drops of rain Whisper of the pain Tears of love Lost in the days gone by.
ROBERT PLANT "THANK YOU"
Do you really think it is weakness that yields to temptation? I tell you that there are terrible tem...
OSCAR WILDE
You say I am repeating
Something I have said before. I shall say it again.
Shall I say it...
T.S. ELIOT
I think you have to do the things that give you strength to get through this.
FRANK ROSINIA
At some point, you have to stop running and turn around and face whoever wants you dead.The hard thi...
SUZANNE COLLINS
Overcome your problems as they arise. Do not live in fear of the next bad thing in your life. Enjoy ...
AVINA CELESTE
Isn't it amazing that we’ll cause ourselves more pain by thinking about, and avoiding something we...
JAMES A. MURPHY
[Prospects] really have more to gain than they do to lose. No doubt you can really help yourself thi...
GREG GABRIEL
I think every time you coach a certain team, when you leave that franchise, I think you continue to ...
DOUG COLLINS
Each day I will accomplish one thing on my to do list.
LAILAH GIFTY AKITA
If you have no faith in yourself, then have faith in the things you call truth. You know what must b...
PATRICIA A. MCKILLIP
You have enough time to do everything God wants you to do.
CRAIG GROESCHEL
Face every challenge and task firmly and boldly. You may be tested many times through your journey t...
DR ANIL KUMAR SINHA
The younger you are, the more courage and audacity you will have to set long-term goals and be there...
SHIV NADAR
Focus on your work. Do what you're great at. Don't compare yourself to others and or waste time crit...
GERMANY KENT
Vulnerability really means to be strong and secure enough within yourself that you are able to walk ...
ALARIC HUTCHINSON
The best thing you can do for your kids is to show them God working in you on a daily basis.
CRAIG GROESCHEL
If you think you can do it, you can.
JOHN BURROUGHS
You can be all that you want to be.
Keep dreaming and reach out to your dreams.
LAILAH GIFTY AKITA
You have plenty of courage, I am sure," answered Oz. "All you need is confidence in yourself. There ...
L. FRANK BAUM
That's the beauty of argument-if you argue correctly, you're never wrong.
, THANK YOU FOR SMOKING, 2006
You need the commitment of people that aren't worried about that next election, who are going to...
JEFF FITZGERALD
Believe in yourself that You have one thing that you are really good for something which no one else...
DR ANIL KUMAR SINHA
Be all that you can be.
You can be great.
LAILAH GIFTY AKITA
Everyone always says how I'm so smart, but they don't know what it's like being me. always feeling l...
SUSANE COLASANTI
After deciding the territory you want to rule over, the next thing you must do is to invest your tim...
SUNDAY ADELAJA
Do that thing where you look blank, like you have no feelings at all.
I think that's just my f...
AMY TINTERA
Do you really think, Arthur, that it is weakness that yields to temptation? I tell you that there ar...
OSCAR WILDE
If truly you want to be blessed & to have meaningful life, you must love & respect yourself first.Wh...
DR ANIL KUMAR SINHA
Here's the thing. My one piece of advice to you. You have to let yourself be fully present in every ...
JENNY HAN
Usually if you pray from the heart, you get an answer—the phone rings or the mail comes, and light...
ANNE LAMOTT
Confidence comes from within. You teach people how to perceive you, by your own example of how you p...
LINDSEY RIETZSCH
You cannot believe in honor until you have achieved it, better keep yourself clean and bright; you a...
GEORGE BERNARD SHAW
The one thing I can assure you is that I'm not going to do a Prescott.
DAVID TRIMBLE
You always do what you want to do. This is true with every act. You may say that you had to do somet...
W. CLEMENT STONE
You always do what you want to do. This is true with every act. You may say that you had to do somet...
W. CLEMENT STONE
You're never by yourself. The worse thing you can do is to stop fighting and not be optimistic about...
DENISE LEWIS
That's when I decided to do the self-publishing thing. The way I look at it is, you have to have con...
DARDEN NORTH
You have two choices in life when it comes to truthful observations by others that anger you: You ca...
SHANNON L. ALDER
I would hold her up to the mirror and make her look at herself and I would say, 'Do you really want ...
CESAR RODRIGUEZ
The bravest thing you can do when you are not brave is to profess courage and act accordingly.
CORRA MAY HARRIS
The bravest thing you can do when you are not brave is to profess courage and act accordingly.
CORRA HARRIS
The bravest thing you can do when you are not brave is to profess courage and act accordingly
CORRA HARRIS
Each time we face our fear, we gain strength, courage, and confidence in the doing.
SOURCE UNKNOWN
Each time we face our fear, we gain strength, courage, and confidence in the doing.
RALPH WALDO EMERSON
Each time we face our fear, we gain strength, courage, and confidence in the doing.
LAO TZU
Each time we face our fear, we gain strength, courage, and confidence in the doing.
EDWARD VERNON RICKENBACKER
Do you know what it's like to love and be alone?
ABRAHAM POLONSKY
I just think that you have to believe in yourself and you have to work very hard. You can't ever...
OCTAVIA SPENCER
I think every relationship has a point where you stop and reevaluate. Are you happy? Have you grown ...
COURTENEY COX
Be best version of yourself. Do the best .Believe in what you can do, and than you will be able to p...
DR ANIL KUMAR SINHA
A line from one of my 1997 columns - 'Do one thing every day that scares you' - is now widel...
MARY SCHMICH
You are not a bad person because you are gay. You are you because you are you and you were meant to ...
TEGAN QUIN
I mean, if you are directing actors to do one thing and then directing them to do something else ent...
ATOM EGOYAN
Don't waste your tremendous voice writing messages in the sand.
LORIN MORGAN-RICHARDS
It's not the face, but the expressions on it. It's not the voice, but what you say. It's not how you...
STEPHENIE MEYER
I think that love is stronger than habits or circumstances. I think it is possible to keep yourself ...
PETER S. BEAGLE
I am not out to liberate anybody. You have to liberate yourself, and you are unable to do that. What...
U.G. KRISHNAMURTI
If you find yourself in a hole, the first thing to do is stop digging
COWBOY PROVERB
You really have to stay true to yourself, as cheesy as that sounds. And you cannot take no for an an...
KSENIA SOLO
Biggest challenge in life is to make yourself capable enough as you dream for. Empowering yourself w...
DR ANIL KUMAR SINHA
The first thing that's important is to really have people believe in you. If you have that, you ...
WALE
Too often, women are waiting for someone to recognise their great work and tap them on the shoulder ...
LYNNE DOUGHTIE
You can't tell young people what to do. You can't tell 'em because they'll look at y...
RONNIE JAMES DIO
The one important thing you do as boss is you set the standard. The minute you go in and say 'we...
BILL KURTIS
You must wake up to the truth that whoever you are, that whatever you have or think you do not have,...
STEPHEN RICHARDS
Learn, relearn and outlearn.
LAILAH GIFTY AKITA
Killing you is not the worst thing they can do to you," I say. "Controlling you is.
VERONICA ROTH
I once lived in a place where the opinion of others mattered. It suffocated me, nearly broke me. So ...
SARAH J. MAAS
Love, love, love, love is all you can do, even in the face of bitterness, pain, anger, confusion, it...
JAY WOODMAN
Bernard Shaw said that when you copy yourself, you know you've got style. And I feel that if you...
BRUCE ROBINSON
If you really want to see the alien, then I will tell you how they can be seen. First, you will have...
TOBA BETA

More Eleanor Roosevelt

It is not fair to ask of others what you are not willing to do yourself.
ELEANOR ROOSEVELT
With the new day comes new strength and new thoughts.
ELEANOR ROOSEVELT
Campaign behavior for wives: Always be on time. Do as little talking as humanly possible. Lean back ...
ELEANOR ROOSEVELT
The mother of a family should look upon her housekeeping and the planning of meals as a scientific o...
ELEANOR ROOSEVELT
I do not think that I am a natural born mother... If I ever wanted to mother anyone, it was my fathe...
ELEANOR ROOSEVELT
Actors are one family over the entire world.
ELEANOR ROOSEVELT
I think I lived those years very impersonally. It was almost as though I had erected someone outside...
ELEANOR ROOSEVELT
I can not believe that war is the best solution. No one won the last war, and no one will win the ne...
ELEANOR ROOSEVELT
Ambition is pitiless. Any merit that it cannot use it finds despicable.
ELEANOR ROOSEVELT
Have convictions. Be friendly. Stick to your beliefs as they stick to theirs. Work as hard as they d...
ELEANOR ROOSEVELT
I believe that anyone can conquer fear by doing the things he fears to do, provided he keeps doing t...
ELEANOR ROOSEVELT
The only advantage of not being too good a housekeeper is that your guests are so pleased to feel ho...
ELEANOR ROOSEVELT
The only things one can admire at length are those one admires without knowing why.
ELEANOR ROOSEVELT
The Bible illustrated by Dore occupied many of my hours - and I think probably gave me many nightmar...
ELEANOR ROOSEVELT
If life were predictable it would cease to be life, and be without flavor.
ELEANOR ROOSEVELT
Only a man's character is the real criterion of worth.
ELEANOR ROOSEVELT
It is not more vacation we need - it is more vocation.
ELEANOR ROOSEVELT
Happiness is not a goal; it is a by-product.
ELEANOR ROOSEVELT
In the long run, we shape our lives, and we shape ourselves. The process never ends until we die. An...
ELEANOR ROOSEVELT
No one can make you feel inferior without your consent.
ELEANOR ROOSEVELT
It is better to light a candle than curse the darkness.
ELEANOR ROOSEVELT
Old age has deformities enough of its own. It should never add to them the deformity of vice.
ELEANOR ROOSEVELT
I used to tell my husband that, if he could make me 'understand' something, it would be clea...
ELEANOR ROOSEVELT
My experience has been that work is almost the best way to pull oneself out of the depths.
ELEANOR ROOSEVELT
Friendship with ones self is all important, because without it one cannot be friends with anyone els...
ELEANOR ROOSEVELT
Anyone who thinks must think of the next war as they would of suicide.
ELEANOR ROOSEVELT
Freedom makes a huge requirement of every human being. With freedom comes responsibility. For the pe...
ELEANOR ROOSEVELT
I have spent many years of my life in opposition, and I rather like the role.
ELEANOR ROOSEVELT
You can never really live anyone else's life, not even your child's. The influence you exert...
ELEANOR ROOSEVELT
When you cease to make a contribution, you begin to die.
ELEANOR ROOSEVELT
In all our contacts it is probably the sense of being really needed and wanted which gives us the gr...
ELEANOR ROOSEVELT
Life must be lived and curiosity kept alive. One must never, for whatever reason, turn his back on l...
ELEANOR ROOSEVELT
Since you get more joy out of giving joy to others, you should put a good deal of thought into the h...
ELEANOR ROOSEVELT
What you don't do can be a destructive force.
ELEANOR ROOSEVELT
Remember always that you not only have the right to be an individual, you have an obligation to be o...
ELEANOR ROOSEVELT
I'm so glad I never feel important, it does complicate life!
ELEANOR ROOSEVELT
You can't move so fast that you try to change the mores faster than people can accept it. That d...
ELEANOR ROOSEVELT
It isn't enough to talk about peace. One must believe in it. And it isn't enough to believe ...
ELEANOR ROOSEVELT
Perhaps in His wisdom the Almighty is trying to show us that a leader may chart the way, may point o...
ELEANOR ROOSEVELT
Learn from the mistakes of others, you can't live long enough to make them all yourself.
ELEANOR ROOSEVELT
Where, after all, do universal human rights begin? In small places, close to home - so close and so ...
ELEANOR ROOSEVELT
One's philosophy is not best expressed in words; it is expressed in the choices one makes. In the lo...
ELEANOR ROOSEVELT
Happiness is not a goal, it is a by-product.
ELEANOR ROOSEVELT
The purpose of life, after all, is to live it, to taste experience to the utmost, to reach out eager...
ELEANOR ROOSEVELT
Since you get more joy out of giving joy to others, you should put a good deal of thought into the h...
ELEANOR ROOSEVELT
A trait no other nation seems to possess in quite the same degree that we do -- namely, a feeling of...
ELEANOR ROOSEVELT
Do what you feel in your heart to be right. You'll be criticized anyway.
ELEANOR ROOSEVELT
It isn't enough to talk about peace. One must believe in it. And it isn't enough to believe in it. O...
ELEANOR ROOSEVELT
You gain strength, courage and confidence by every experience in which you really stop to look fear ...
ELEANOR ROOSEVELT
I think I have a good deal of my Uncle Theodore in me, because I could not, at any age, be content t...
ELEANOR ROOSEVELT
Understanding is a two-way street.
ELEANOR ROOSEVELT
Light a candle instead of cursing the darkness.
ELEANOR ROOSEVELT
Do one thing every day that scares you.
ELEANOR ROOSEVELT
Never mistake knowledge for wisdom. One helps you make a living; the other helps you make a life.
ELEANOR ROOSEVELT
Never allow a person to tell you no who doesn't have the power to say
yes.
ELEANOR ROOSEVELT
Friendship with oneself is all important, because without it one cannot be friends with anyone else ...
ELEANOR ROOSEVELT
Once I had a rose named after me and I was very flattered. But I was not pleased to read the descrip...
ELEANOR ROOSEVELT
A mature person is one who does not think only in absolutes, who is able to be objective even when d...
ELEANOR ROOSEVELT
What could we accomplish if we knew we could not fail?
ELEANOR ROOSEVELT
You have to accept whatever comes, and the only important thing is that you meet it with the best yo...
ELEANOR ROOSEVELT
Life is what you make it. Always has been, always will be.
ELEANOR ROOSEVELT
Happiness is not a goal...it's a by-product of a life well lived.
ELEANOR ROOSEVELT
Life was meant to be lived, and curiosity must be kept alive. One must never, for whatever reason, t...
ELEANOR ROOSEVELT
Do not stop thinking of life as an adventure. You have no security unless you can live bravely, exci...
ELEANOR ROOSEVELT
If someone betrays you once, it’s their fault; if they betray you twice, it’s your fault.
ELEANOR ROOSEVELT
The reason that fiction is more interesting than any other form of literature, to those who really l...
ELEANOR ROOSEVELT
Beautiful young people are accidents of nature, but beautiful old people are works of art.
ELEANOR ROOSEVELT
You can often change your circumstances by changing your attitude
ELEANOR ROOSEVELT
To handle yourself, use your head; to handle others, use your heart.
ELEANOR ROOSEVELT
We are afraid to care too much, for fear that the other person does not care at all.
ELEANOR ROOSEVELT
It takes courage to love, but pain through love is the purifying fire which those who love generousl...
ELEANOR ROOSEVELT
The purpose of life is to live it, to taste experience to the utmost, to reach out eagerly and witho...
ELEANOR ROOSEVELT
Do what you feel in your heart to be right – for you’ll be criticized anyway.
ELEANOR ROOSEVELT
A woman is like a tea bag; you never know how strong it is until it's in hot water.
ELEANOR ROOSEVELT
No matter how plain a woman may be, if truth and honesty are written across her face, she will be be...
ELEANOR ROOSEVELT
Pit race against race, religion against religion, prejudice against prejudice. Divide and conquer! W...
ELEANOR ROOSEVELT
It is better to light a candle than to curse the darkness!
Eleanore Roosevelt
ELEANOR ROOSEVELT
Up to a certain point it is good for us to know that there are people in the world who will give us ...
ELEANOR ROOSEVELT
If man is to be liberated to enjoy more leisure, he must also be prepared to enjoy this leisure full...
ELEANOR ROOSEVELT
To me who dreamed so much as a child, who made a dreamworld in which I was the heroine of an unendin...
ELEANOR ROOSEVELT
Will people ever be wise enough to refuse to follow bad leaders or to take away the freedom of other...
ELEANOR ROOSEVELT
Many people will walk in and out of your life, but only true friends will leave footprints in your h...
ELEANOR ROOSEVELT
Today is the oldest you've ever been, and the youngest you'll ever be again.
ELEANOR ROOSEVELT
A mature person is one who does not think only in absolutes, who is able to be objective even when d...
ELEANOR ROOSEVELT
It is equality of monotony which makes the strength of the British Isles.
ELEANOR ROOSEVELT
If we want a free and peaceful world, if we want to make the deserts bloom and man grow to greater d...
ELEANOR ROOSEVELT
You gain strength, courage, and confidence by every experience in which you really stop to look fear...
ELEANOR ROOSEVELT
Never allow a person to tell you no who doesn't have the power to say yes.
ELEANOR ROOSEVELT
One's philosophy is not best expressed in words; it is expressed in the choices one makes. In the lo...
ELEANOR ROOSEVELT
I think somehow we learn who we really are and then we live with that decision.
ELEANOR ROOSEVELT
Somewhere along the line of development we discover what we really are, and then we make our real de...
ELEANOR ROOSEVELT
I think, at a child's birth, if a mother could ask a fairy godmother to endow it with the most usefu...
ELEANOR ROOSEVELT
All human beings have failings, all human beings have needs and temptations and stresses. Men and wo...
ELEANOR ROOSEVELT
You have to accept whatever comes and the only important thing is that you meet it with the best you...
ELEANOR ROOSEVELT
Nobody can make you feel inferior without your consent.
ELEANOR ROOSEVELT
Perhaps nature is our best assurance of immortality.
ELEANOR ROOSEVELT
What one has to do usually can be done.
ELEANOR ROOSEVELT
I have spent many years of my life in opposition and I like the role.
ELEANOR ROOSEVELT
You always admire what you really don't understand.
ELEANOR ROOSEVELT
You always admire what you really don't understand.
ELEANOR ROOSEVELT
A mature person is one who is does not think only in absolutes, who is able to be objective even whe...
ELEANOR ROOSEVELT
The kind of man who thinks that helping with the dishes is beneath him will also think that helping ...
ELEANOR ROOSEVELT
I once had a rose named after me and I was very flattered. But I was not pleased to read the descrip...
ELEANOR ROOSEVELT
It is better to light 1 candle than to curse the darkness.
ELEANOR ROOSEVELT
One's philosophy is not best expressed in words; it is expressed in the choices one makes ... and th...
ELEANOR ROOSEVELT
I hope your dreams take you... to the corners of your smiles, to the highest of your hopes, to the w...
ELEANOR ROOSEVELT
Good friends are like stars.... You don't always see them, but you know they are always there
ELEANOR ROOSEVELT
Sometimes I wonder if we shall ever grow up in our politics and say definite things which mean somet...
ELEANOR ROOSEVELT
Great minds discuss ideas; Average minds discuss events; Small minds discuss people
ELEANOR ROOSEVELT
So much attention is paid to the aggressive sins, such as violence and cruelty and greed with all th...
ELEANOR ROOSEVELT
It was a wife's duty to be interested in whatever interested her husband, whether it was politics, b...
ELEANOR ROOSEVELT
I used to tell my husband that, if he could make me 'understand' something, it would be clear to all...
ELEANOR ROOSEVELT
Hate and force cannot be in just a part of the world without having an effect on the rest of it.
ELEANOR ROOSEVELT
The battle for the individual rights of women is one of long standing and none of us should countena...
ELEANOR ROOSEVELT
You must do the thing you think you cannot do
ELEANOR ROOSEVELT
Whatever come we have to meet it.
ELEANOR ROOSEVELT
A woman is like a teabag, you never know how strong she is until she gets into hot water.
ELEANOR ROOSEVELT
You must do the thing you think you cannot do. -Eleanor Roosevelt.
ELEANOR ROOSEVELT
Remember, no one can make you feel inferior without your consent. -Eleanor Roosevelt.
ELEANOR ROOSEVELT
Remember always that you not only have the right to be an individual you have an obligation to be on...
ELEANOR ROOSEVELT
Never allow a person to tell you no who doesn't have the power to say yes.
ELEANOR ROOSEVELT
As for accomplishments, I just did what I had to do as things came along.
ELEANOR ROOSEVELT
One's philosophy is not best expressed in words; it is expressed in the choices one makes... and...
ELEANOR ROOSEVELT
People grow through experience if they meet life honestly and courageously. This is how character is...
ELEANOR ROOSEVELT
You gain strength, courage, and confidence by every experience in which you really stop to look fear...
ELEANOR ROOSEVELT
Great minds discuss ideas; average minds discuss events; small minds discuss people.
ELEANOR ROOSEVELT
The giving of love is an education in itself.
ELEANOR ROOSEVELT
It takes as much energy to wish as it does to plan.
ELEANOR ROOSEVELT
I think, at a child's birth, if a mother could ask a fairy godmother to endow it with the most u...
ELEANOR ROOSEVELT
You have to accept whatever comes and the only important thing is that you meet it with courage and ...
ELEANOR ROOSEVELT
You must do the things you think you cannot do.
ELEANOR ROOSEVELT
Justice cannot be for one side alone, but must be for both.
ELEANOR ROOSEVELT
The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams.
ELEANOR ROOSEVELT
A stumbling block to the pessimist is a stepping-stone to the optimist.
ELEANOR ROOSEVELT
Probably the happiest period in life most frequently is in middle age, when the eager passions of yo...
ELEANOR ROOSEVELT
Autobiographies are only useful as the lives you read about and analyze may suggest to you something...
ELEANOR ROOSEVELT
When will our consciences grow so tender that we will act to prevent human misery rather than avenge...
ELEANOR ROOSEVELT
Too often the great decisions are originated and given form in bodies made up wholly of men, or so c...
ELEANOR ROOSEVELT
Anyone who knows history, particularly the history of Europe, will, I think, recognize that the domi...
ELEANOR ROOSEVELT
Do what you feel in your heart to be right- for you'll be criticized anyway. You'll be damne...
ELEANOR ROOSEVELT
A woman is like a tea bag - you can't tell how strong she is until you put her in hot water.
ELEANOR ROOSEVELT
A little simplification would be the first step toward rational living, I think.
ELEANOR ROOSEVELT
When life is too easy for us, we must beware or we may not be ready to meet the blows which sooner o...
ELEANOR ROOSEVELT
There are practical little things in housekeeping which no man really understands.
ELEANOR ROOSEVELT
We gain strength, and courage, and confidence by each experience in which we really stop to look fea...
ELEANOR ROOSEVELT
One thing life has taught me: if you are interested, you never have to look for new interests. They ...
ELEANOR ROOSEVELT
Learn from the mistakes of others. You can’t live long enough to make them all yourself.
ELEANOR ROOSEVELT
It is not fair to ask of others what you are unwilling to do yourself.
ELEANOR ROOSEVELT
If someone betrays you once, it’s their fault; if they betray you twice, it’s your fault.
ELEANOR ROOSEVELT
I think that somehow, we learn who we really are and then live with that decision.
ELEANOR ROOSEVELT
I could not at any age be content to take my place in a corner by the fireside and simply look on.
ELEANOR ROOSEVELT
Friendship with oneself is all-important, because without it one cannot be friends with anyone else ...
ELEANOR ROOSEVELT
Do what you feel in your heart to be right - for you'll be criticized anyway. You'll be damned if yo...
ELEANOR ROOSEVELT
A woman is like a tea bag- you never know how strong she is until she gets in hot water.
ELEANOR ROOSEVELT
Why do they rate a movie "R" for "adult language?" The only people I hear using that language are t...
ELEANOR ROOSEVELT
There is nothing to regret - either for those who go or for those who are left behind
ELEANOR ROOSEVELT
It is not fair to ask of others what you are unwilling to do yourself
ELEANOR ROOSEVELT
I could never say in the morning, "I have a headache and cannot do thus and so". Headache or no head...
ELEANOR ROOSEVELT
When you know to laugh and when to look upon things as too absurd to take seriously, the other perso...
ELEANOR ROOSEVELT
Show me someone who doesn't dream about the future and I'll show you someone who doesn't know where ...
ELEANOR ROOSEVELT
No one won the last war, and no one will win the next war.
ELEANOR ROOSEVELT
It isn't enough to talk about peace. One must believe in it. And it isn't enough to believe in it....
ELEANOR ROOSEVELT
If we want a free and peaceful world, if we want to make the deserts bloom and man grow to greater ...
ELEANOR ROOSEVELT
An economic policy which does not consider the well-being of all will not serve the purposes of peac...
ELEANOR ROOSEVELT
I would not be happy unless I had some regular work to do every day and I imagine that I will always...
ELEANOR ROOSEVELT
I have never felt that anything really mattered by the satisfaction of knowing that you stood for th...
ELEANOR ROOSEVELT
At any age it does us no harm to look over our past shortcomings and plan to improve our characters ...
ELEANOR ROOSEVELT
One of the best ways of enslaving a people is to keep them from education... The second way of ensla...
ELEANOR ROOSEVELT
At all times, day by day, we have to continue fighting for freedom of religion, freedom of speech, a...
ELEANOR ROOSEVELT
One of the blessings of age is to learn not to part on a note of sharpness, to treasure the moments ...
ELEANOR ROOSEVELT
My life can be so arranged that I can live on whatever I have. If I cannot live as I have lived in t...
ELEANOR ROOSEVELT
Long ago, I made up my mind that when things were said involving only me, I would pay no attention t...
ELEANOR ROOSEVELT
To some of us, hunger was more academic than real, but we must try to develop the ability to feel th...
ELEANOR ROOSEVELT
One should always sleep in all of one's guest beds, to make sure that they are comfortable.
ELEANOR ROOSEVELT
This living in a democracy is a problem, isn't it?
ELEANOR ROOSEVELT
It is our freedom to progress that makes us all want to live and to go on.
ELEANOR ROOSEVELT
I have learned long ago to possess my soul in patience and accept the inevitable.
ELEANOR ROOSEVELT
I think we ought to impress on both our girls and boys that successful marriages require just as muc...
ELEANOR ROOSEVELT
A milestone passed, new things begun, dreams as shining as the sun, a goal achieved, a victory won! ...
ELEANOR ROOSEVELT
Beautiful young people are accidents of nature, But beautiful old people are works of art
ELEANOR ROOSEVELT
The Marines I have seen around the world have the cleanest bodies, the filthiest minds, the highest ...
ELEANOR ROOSEVELT
It is neither unusual nor new for me to have Negro friends, nor is it unusual for me to have found m...
ELEANOR ROOSEVELT
Believe in yourself. You gain strength, courage, and confidence by every experience in which you sto...
ELEANOR ROOSEVELT
Friendship with oneself is all important because without it one cannot be friends with anybody else ...
ELEANOR ROOSEVELT
Freedom makes a huge requirement of every human being. With freedom comes responsibility. For the pe...
ELEANOR ROOSEVELT
Do what you feel in your heart to be right, for you'll be criticized anyway. You'll be damned if you...
ELEANOR ROOSEVELT
You have to accept whatever comes and the only important thing is that you meet it with courage and ...
ELEANOR ROOSEVELT
Do one thing everyday that scares you.
ELEANOR ROOSEVELT
For instance, it is certain that women do not want a woman for President. Nor would they have the sl...
ELEANOR ROOSEVELT
The freedom of man, I contend, is the freedom to eat
ELEANOR ROOSEVELT
Those of us who believe in the right of any human being to belong to whatever church he sees fit, an...
ELEANOR ROOSEVELT
I think if the people of this country can be reached with the truth, their judgment will be in favor...
ELEANOR ROOSEVELT
The motivating force of the theory of a Democratic way of life is still a belief that as individuals...
ELEANOR ROOSEVELT
Every woman who fails in a public position confirms this, but every woman who succeeds creates confi...
ELEANOR ROOSEVELT
When all is said and done, and statesmen discuss the future of the world, the fact remains that peop...
ELEANOR ROOSEVELT
You can't move so fast that you try to change the mores faster than people can accept it. That doesn...
ELEANOR ROOSEVELT
I could not, at any age, be content to take my place in a corner by the fireside and simply look on.
ELEANOR ROOSEVELT
«Vous devez faire les choses que vous vous croyez incapable de faire.»
ELEANOR ROOSEVELT
"The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams." - Eleanor Roosevelt.
ELEANOR ROOSEVELT
My father would pick me up and hold me high in the air. He dominated my life as long as he lived, an...
ELEANOR ROOSEVELT