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.
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Eleanor RooseveltMy Day newspaper column (1940)
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 failure and resilience
- Know your own happiness. You want nothing but patience; or give it a more fascinating name, call it hope.Jane Austen
- There is a stubbornness about me that never can bear to be frightened at the will of others. My courage always rises at every attempt to intimidate me.Jane Austen
- I hated every minute of it. But I said to myself, 'Suffer now, and live the rest of your life as a champion.'Muhammad Ali
- 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
- I've missed over 9,000 shots in my career. I've lost almost 300 games. 26 times I've been trusted to take the game-winning shot and missed. I've failed over and over and over again in my life. And that is why I succeed.Michael Jordan
- Failure is not fatal but failure to change might be.John Wooden
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