Eleanor Roosevelt

We gain strength, and courage, and confidence by each experience in which we really stop to look fear in the face... we must do that which we think we cannot. ↗

— Eleanor Roosevelt

#cannot #confidence #courage #each #experience

I could not, at any age, be content to take my place by the fireside and simply look on. Life was meant to be lived. ↗

— Eleanor Roosevelt

#age

I think I have a good deal of my Uncle Theodore in me, because I could not, at any age, be content to take my place by the fireside and simply look on. ↗

— Eleanor Roosevelt

#age

Tomorrow is a mystery. Today is a gift. That is why it is called the present. ↗

— Eleanor Roosevelt

#inspirational

Nothing has ever been achieved by the person who says, It can't be done. ↗

— Eleanor Roosevelt

#inspirational

It is a brave thing to have courage to be an individual; it is also, perhaps, a lonely thing. But it is better than not being an individual, which is to be nobody at all. ↗

— Eleanor Roosevelt

#eleanor-roosevelt #individuality #courage

If you want a world ruled by law and not by force you must build up, from the very grassroots, a respect for law. ↗

— Eleanor Roosevelt

#law #respect #respect

Remember always that you not only have the right to be an individual, you have an obligation to be one. ↗

— Eleanor Roosevelt

#individual #obligation #only #remember #right

The battle for the individual rights of women is one of long standing and none of us should countenance anything which undermines it. ↗

— Eleanor Roosevelt

#battle #countenance #individual #individual rights #long

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

#about #believe #enough #must #talk