Eleanor Roosevelt

You must do the things you think you cannot do. ↗

— Eleanor Roosevelt

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I think, at a child's birth, if a mother could ask a fairy godmother to endow it with the most useful gift, that gift should be curiosity. ↗

— Eleanor Roosevelt

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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

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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. ↗

— Eleanor Roosevelt

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We are afraid to care too much, for fear that the other person does not care at all. ↗

— Eleanor Roosevelt

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Happiness is not a goal; it is a by-product. ↗

— Eleanor Roosevelt

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You can never really live anyone else's life, not even your child's. The influence you exert is through your own life, and what you've become yourself. ↗

— Eleanor Roosevelt

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Friendship with ones self is all important, because without it one cannot be friends with anyone else in the world. ↗

— Eleanor Roosevelt

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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

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People grow through experience if they meet life honestly and courageously. This is how character is built. ↗

— Eleanor Roosevelt

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