You gain strength, courage, and confidence by every experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face.
You Learn by Living (1960)
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Eleanor Roosevelt quotes
1884-1962 ยท Presidents and world leaders
First Lady, diplomat and human rights champion who chaired the drafting of the UN declaration.
8 quotes, 8 traced to where Roosevelt said or wrote them.
You must do the thing you think you cannot do.
You Learn by Living (1960)
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.
Voice of America broadcast (1951)
Life was meant to be lived, and curiosity must be kept alive. One must never, for whatever reason, turn his back on life.
Preface to The Autobiography of Eleanor Roosevelt (1961)
The purpose of life... is to live it, to taste experience to the utmost, to reach out eagerly and without fear for newer and richer experience.
Foreword to You Learn by Living (1960)
I have never felt that anything really mattered but the satisfaction of knowing that you stood for the things in which you believed and had done the very best you could.
My Day newspaper column (1944)
When life is too easy for us, we must beware or we may not be ready to meet the blows which sooner or later come to everyone, rich or poor.
My Day newspaper column (1940)
Example is the best lesson there is.
Tomorrow Is Now (1963)