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Do not stop thinking of life as an adventure. You have no security unless you can live bravely, excitingly, imaginatively; unless you can choose a challenge instead of competence.

Do not stop thinking of life as an adventure. You have no security unless you can live bravely, excitingly, imaginatively; unless you can choose a challenge instead of competence.

Eleanor Roosevelt
Inspirational, Travel, Women
Eleanor Roosevelt (1961). “Autobiography”

A stumbling block to the pessimist is a stepping-stone to the optimist.

Eleanor Roosevelt
Inspirational, Motivational, Attitude

What could we accomplish if we knew we could not fail?

Eleanor Roosevelt
Inspirational, Confidence, Courageous

Justice cannot be for one side alone, but must be for both.

Eleanor Roosevelt
Inspirational, Justice, Political

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

Eleanor Roosevelt
Inspirational, Life, Relationship
Eleanor Roosevelt (1962). “Book of common sense etiquette”

Life is what you make it. Always has been, always will be.

Eleanor Roosevelt
Inspirational, Life, Motivational

One thing life has taught me: if you are interested, you never have to look for new interests. They come to you. When you are genuinely interested in one thing, it will always lead to something else.

Eleanor Roosevelt
Inspirational, Life Lesson, Being Single
Eleanor Roosevelt (1960). “You Learn by Living”, p.14, Westminster John Knox Press

When you cease to make a contribution, you begin to die.

Eleanor Roosevelt
Inspirational, Life, Happiness
Quoted in Joseph P. Lash, Eleanor: The Years Alone (1972)

If we want a free and peaceful world, if we want to make the deserts bloom and man grow to greater dignity as a human being - we can do it.

Eleanor Roosevelt
Inspirational, Peace, Men
Eleanor Roosevelt (2012). “Tomorrow Is Now: It Is Today That We Must Create the World of the Future”, p.159, Penguin

Every time you meet a situation you think at the time it is an impossibility and you go through the tortures of the damned, once you have met it and lived through it, you find that forever after you are freer than you were before.

Eleanor Roosevelt
Inspirational, Life, Courage
Eleanor Roosevelt (1960). “You Learn by Living”, p.29, Westminster John Knox Press

It takes courage to love, but pain through love is the purifying fire which those who love generously know.

Eleanor Roosevelt
Love, Inspirational, Pain
Eleanor Roosevelt, David Emblidge (2009). “My Day: The Best of Eleanor Roosevelt's Acclaimed Newspaper Columns, 1936-1962”, p.36, Da Capo Press

Courage is exhilarating.

Eleanor Roosevelt
Inspirational, Courageous, Exhilarating

A great deal of fear is a result of just “not knowing.” We do not know what is involved in a new situation. We do not know whether we can deal with it. The sooner we learn what it entails, the sooner we can dissolve our fear.

Eleanor Roosevelt
Inspirational, Knowing, Courageous
Eleanor Roosevelt (1960). “You Learn by Living”, p.34, Westminster John Knox Press

Women are like tea bags: put them in hot water and they get stronger.

Eleanor Roosevelt
Inspirational, Courage, Water

There is nothing to fear except fear it's self.

Eleanor Roosevelt
Inspirational, Self, Courageous
"2012 Crossing Over: A New Beginning". Documentary, www.imdb.com. 2012.

Understanding is a two-way street.

Eleanor Roosevelt
Inspirational, Two, Understanding

We must want for others, not ourselves alone.

Eleanor Roosevelt
Inspirational, Attitude, Sacrifice

No leader can be too far ahead of his followers.

Eleanor Roosevelt
Inspirational, Leader, Followers
Eleanor Roosevelt (1961). “Autobiography”

If you can develop this ability to see what you look at, to understand its meaning, to readjust your knowledge to this new information, you can continue to learn and to grow as long as you live and you’ll have a wonderful time doing it.

Eleanor Roosevelt
Inspirational, Long, Looks
Eleanor Roosevelt (1960). “You Learn by Living”, p.22, Westminster John Knox Press

Work is always an antidote to depression.

Eleanor Roosevelt
Inspirational, Depression, Antidote

Do whatever comes your way to do as well as you can. Think as little as possible about yourself. Think as much as possible about other people. Dwell on things that are interesting. Since you get more joy out of giving joy to others, you should put a good deal of thought into the happiness that you are able to give.

Eleanor Roosevelt
Inspirational, Thinking, People

I believe that anyone can conquer fear by doing the things he fears to do.

Eleanor Roosevelt
Inspirational, Motivational, Fear

You can't move so fast that you try to change the mores faster than people can accept it. That doesn't mean you do nothing, but it means that you do the things that need to be done according to priority.

Eleanor Roosevelt
Inspirational, Change, Moving

I shall either find a way, or make one (attributed)

Eleanor Roosevelt
Inspirational, Life, Tattoo

Each time you learn something new you must readjust the whole framework of your knowledge

Eleanor Roosevelt
Inspirational, Something New, Framework
Eleanor Roosevelt (1960). “You Learn by Living”, p.78, Westminster John Knox Press

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