People grow through experience if they meet life honestly and courageously. This is how character is built.
Quote by Eleanor Roosevelt
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People grow through experience if they meet life honestly and courageously. This is how character is built.
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Eleanor Roosevelt Quotes
- My experience has been that work is almost the best way to pull oneself out of the depths.
- 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.
- The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams.
- Justice cannot be for one side alone, but must be for both.
- A woman is like a tea bag - you can't tell how strong she is until you put her in hot water.
- 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.'
- 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.
- Never allow a person to tell you no who doesn't have the power to say yes.
- The only advantage of not being too good a housekeeper is that your guests are so pleased to feel how very much better they are.
- 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.
Best Quotes
- I don't really consider myself one of those actors who takes his work home with him.
- It's only a fool that will lit a candle at midday.
- I'm married. My wife, Stella - a beautiful woman. She's brought a lot of peace to my life, a lot of wisdom.
- I don't believe in firing professors. They have academic freedom.
- If I am not worth the wooing, I am surely not worth the winning.
- I'm obsessed with the countryside: woods, forests, fields, lakes, mountains. I'm really into folk music and folklore. But more so I'm into electronic music. I'm into bands that have both aspects, like Boards of Canada is a perfect example. You could listen to that type of music running through a woods. It's kind of what I wanted to achieve.
- Time travel used to be thought of as just science fiction, but Einstein's general theory of relativity allows for the possibility that we could warp space-time so much that you could go off in a rocket and return before you set out.
- Every religion is good that teaches man to be good and I know of none that instructs him to be bad.
- Like family, we are tied to each other. This is what all good musicians understand.
- My religion centers in different areas than what's considered conventional religion.