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When you cease to make a contribution, you begin to die.
-Eleanor Roosevelt

Courage is more exhilarating than fear and in the long run it is easier. We do not have to become heroes overnight. Just a step at a time, meeting each thing that comes up, seeing it is not as dreadful as it appeared, discovering we have the strength to stare it down.
-Eleanor Roosevelt

My experience has been that work is almost the best way to pull oneself out of the depths.
-Eleanor Roosevelt

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

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

Friendship with ones self is all important, because without it one cannot be friends with anyone else in the world.
-Eleanor Roosevelt

You can never really live anyone else’s life, not even your child’s. The influence you exert is through your own life, and what you’ve become yourself.
-Eleanor Roosevelt

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

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

It is not fair to ask of others what you are not willing to do yourself.
-Eleanor Roosevelt