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)
• 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)

More quotes on courage

• The most courageous act is still to think for yourself. Aloud.Coco Chanel
• Success is often achieved by those who don't know that failure is inevitable.Coco Chanel
• The cowards never started and the weak died along the way. That leaves us, ladies and gentlemen. Us.Phil Knight
• Have faith in yourself, but also have faith in faith.Phil Knight
• An entrepreneur is someone who will jump off a cliff and assemble an airplane on the way down.Reid Hoffman
• Fearlessness is like a muscle. I know from my own life that the more I exercise it, the more natural it becomes to not let my fears run me.Arianna Huffington

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