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 Experience
When life is too easy for us, we must beware or we may not be ready to meet the blows which sooner or later come to everyone, rich or poor. -Eleanor Roosevelt Life
I can not believe that war is the best solution. No one won the last war, and no one will win the next war. -Eleanor Roosevelt War
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 Fear
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 Women
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 Peace
A woman is like a tea bag - you can't tell how strong she is until you put her in hot water. -Eleanor Roosevelt Women
Sometimes I wonder if we shall ever grow up in our politics and say definite things which mean something, or whether we shall always go on using generalities to which everyone can subscribe, and which mean very little. -Eleanor Roosevelt Politics
My experience has been that work is almost the best way to pull oneself out of the depths. -Eleanor Roosevelt Work
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. -Eleanor Roosevelt Age
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. -Eleanor Roosevelt Morning
We are afraid to care too much, for fear that the other person does not care at all. -Eleanor Roosevelt Fear
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 Best
Anyone who knows history, particularly the history of Europe, will, I think, recognize that the domination of education or of government by any one particular religious faith is never a happy arrangement for the people. -Eleanor Roosevelt Government
Friendship with ones self is all important, because without it one cannot be friends with anyone else in the world. -Eleanor Roosevelt Friendship
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 Courage