About Eleanor Roosevelt

First Lady, diplomat and human rights champion who chaired the drafting of the UN declaration. (1884-1962)

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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 Learn by Living (1960)
• 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)

More quotes on leadership

• There is no greatness where there is not simplicity, goodness, and truth.Leo Tolstoy
• Your task is not to foresee the future, but to enable it.Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
• To be a man is, precisely, to be responsible. It is to feel shame at the sight of what seems to be unmerited misery. It is to take pride in a victory won by one's comrades.Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
• We all know that a good example is more effective than advice. So set a good example, and it won't take long for others to follow.Anne Frank
• Change your opinions, keep to your principles; change your leaves, keep intact your roots.Victor Hugo
• I never thought of losing, but now that it's happened, the only thing is to do it right. That's my obligation to all the people who believe in me. We all have to take defeats in life.Muhammad Ali

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