Eleanor Roosevelt
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"Anna Eleanor Roosevelt " was an American politician, diplomat, and activist. She was the longest-serving First Lady of the United States, holding the post from March 1933 to April 1945 during her husband President Franklin D. Roosevelt's four terms in office. President Harry S. Truman later called her the "First Lady of the World" in tribute to her human rights achievements.

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Do one thing every day that scares you.

Great minds discuss ideas; Average minds discuss events; Small minds discuss people.

Life was meant to be lived, and curiosity must be kept alive. One must never, for whatever reason, turn his back on life.

No man is defeated without until he is defeated within.

The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams.

Happiness is not a goal; it is a by-product.

Friendship with oneself is all important, because without it one cannot be friends with anyone else in the world.

A woman is like a tea bag- you never know how strong she is until she gets in hot water.

Beautiful young people are accidents of nature, but beautiful old people are works of art.

You must do the things you think you cannot do.

If someone betrays you once, it's their fault; if they betray you twice, it's your fault.

The purpose of life is to live it, to taste experience to the utmost, to reach out eagerly and without fear for newer and richer experience.

Learn from the mistakes of others. You can't live long enough to make them all yourself.

The purpose of life, after all, is to live it, to taste experience to the utmost, to reach out eagerly and without fear for newer and richer experiences.

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

I believe that anyone can conquer fear by doing the things he fears to do, provided he keeps doing them until he gets a record of successful experience behind him.

No one can make you feel inferior without your consent.

If you lose money you lose much, If you lose friends you lose more, If you lose faith you lose all.

It is not fair to ask of others what you are unwilling to do yourself.

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 have lived through this horror. I can take the next thing that comes along.' You must do the thing you think you cannot do.

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.

Do what you feel in your heart to be right - for you'll be criticized anyway. You'll be damned if you do, and damned if you don't.

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.

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

I could not at any age be content to take my place in a corner by the fireside and simply look on.

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

I think that somehow, we learn who we really are and then live with that decision.

Never be bored, and you will never be boring.

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.

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