Eleanor Roosevelt

"You gain strength courage and confidence by every experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face... You must do the thing you think you cannot do."

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"You gain strength courage and confidence by every experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face... You must do the thing you think you cannot do."

Eleanor Roosevelt

"In the long run we shape our lives and we shape ourselves. The process never ends until we die. And the choices we make are ultimately our own responsibility."

Eleanor Roosevelt

"It is not fair to ask of others what you are not willing to do yourself."

Eleanor Roosevelt

"More people are ruined by victory I imagine than by defeat."

Eleanor Roosevelt

"I'm glad I never feel important it does complicate life."

Eleanor Roosevelt

"I think somehow we learn who we really are and then live with that decision."

Eleanor Roosevelt

"No one can make you feel inferior without your consent."

Eleanor Roosevelt

"No man is defeated without until he has first been defeated within."

Eleanor Roosevelt

"Criticism ... makes very little dent upon me unless I think there is some real justification and something should be done."

Eleanor Roosevelt

"Remember always that you have not only the right to be an individual you have an obligation to be one."

Eleanor Roosevelt

"No one from the beginning of time has had security."

Eleanor Roosevelt

"You can't move so fast that you try to change [a situation] faster than people can accept it. That doesn't mean you do nothing but it means that you do the things that need to be done according to priority."

Eleanor Roosevelt

"This I know. This I believe with all my heart. If we want a free and peaceful world if we want to make the deserts bloom and man grow to greater dignity as a human being-we can do it!"

Eleanor Roosevelt

"This I know. This I believe with all my heart. If we want a free and peaceful world if we want to make the deserts bloom and man grow to greater dignity as a human being- we can do it!"

Eleanor Roosevelt

"It isn't enough to talk about peace one must believe in it. And it isn't enough to believe in it one must work at it."

Eleanor Roosevelt

"You always admire what you really don't understand."

Eleanor Roosevelt

"When you get to the end of your rope tie a knot in it and hang on."

Eleanor Roosevelt

"No leader can be too far ahead of his followers."

Eleanor Roosevelt

"The trouble is that not enough people have come together with the firm determination to live the things which they say they believe."

Eleanor Roosevelt

"When you cease to make a contribution you begin to die."

Eleanor Roosevelt

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