“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 lived through this horror. I can take the next thing that comes along.'”
– Eleanor Roosevelt
“One’s philosophy is not best expressed in words; it is expressed in the choices one makes… and the choices we make are ultimately our responsibility.”
– Eleanor Roosevelt
“You must do the things you think you cannot do.”
– Eleanor Roosevelt
“We are afraid to care too much, for fear that the other person does not care at all.”
– 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
“People grow through experience if they meet life honestly and courageously. This is how character is built.”
– Eleanor Roosevelt
“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.”
– Eleanor Roosevelt
“No one can make you feel inferior without your consent.”
– 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
“If life were predictable it would cease to be life, and be without flavor.”
– Eleanor Roosevelt
“Friendship with ones self is all important, because without it one cannot be friends with anyone else in the world.”
– Eleanor Roosevelt
“I believe that anyone can conquer fear by doing the things he fears to do, provided he keeps doing them until he gets a record of successful experience behind him.”
– Eleanor Roosevelt
“It is not fair to ask of others what you are not willing to do yourself.”
– Eleanor Roosevelt
