You gain strength, courage, and confidence by every experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face. You are able to say to yourself, 'I lived through this horror. I can take the next thing that comes along.'
Eleanor Roosevelt
More from: Eleanor Roosevelt
DOWNLOAD
You are free to use this picture for any purpose including commercial. A credit linking back to this page is appreciated.
Similar Quotes:
-
In our society, daily experience teaches the individual to want and need a never-ending supply of new toys and drugs. -
Work is a substitute religious experience for many workaholics. -
Corporate America cannot afford to remain silent or passive about the downward spiral we are undergoing. It cannot turn a blind eye to how difficult the experience of life is for so many of their customers. -
This has been a learning experience for me. I also thought that privacy was something we were granted in the Constitution. I have learned from this when in fact the word privacy does not appear in the Constitution. -
We are volcanoes. When we women offer our experience as our truth, as human truth, all the maps change. There are new mountains.
More quotes by Eleanor Roosevelt
- Old age has deformities enough of its own. It should never add to them the deformity of vice.
- Probably the happiest period in life most frequently is in middle age, when the eager passions of youth are cooled, and the infirmities of age not yet begun as we see that the shadows, which are at morning and evening so large, almost entirely disappear at midday.
- Justice cannot be for one side alone, but must be for both.
- The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams.
- You have to accept whatever comes and the only important thing is that you meet it with courage and with the best that you have to give.