You gain strength, courage, and confidence by every experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face. You must do the thing which you think you cannot do.
- Eleanor Roosevelt

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

Learn from mistakes of others. You can’t live long enough to make them all yourself.
-Eleanor Roosevelt


I think I want to learn more about this woman. I've loved these quotes for years, but I haven't ever read her biography or studied her life much. I think I will this coming year.