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.
- Have convictions. Be friendly. Stick to your beliefs as they stick to theirs. Work as hard as they do.
- 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.
- Too often the great decisions are originated and given form in bodies made up wholly of men, or so completely dominated by them that whatever of special value women have to offer is shunted aside without expression.
- The battle for the individual rights of women is one of long standing and none of us should countenance anything which undermines it.
- Women are like teabags. We don't know our true strength until we are in hot water!
- A woman is like a tea bag - you can't tell how strong she is until you put her in hot water.
- Anyone who thinks must think of the next war as they would of suicide.
- I can not believe that war is the best solution. No one won the last war, and no one will win the next war.
- Campaign behavior for wives: Always be on time. Do as little talking as humanly possible. Lean back in the parade car so everybody can see the president.
- Women are like teabags. We don't know our true strength until we are in hot water!
Best Quotes
- I always wanted to be honest with myself and to those who have had faith in me.
- The serve, I was too young and too small and... not enough powerful to have a good serve when I was young, so my forehand was always my signature shot. So I used to always run around my backhand, you know, use my forehand as much as I could, and so that's why I think it's my strength also today, you know.
- I did all the right things in so many tournaments. But like I said, sometimes in sports it just goes the other way. Maybe you've already won so much that it evens it out a bit sometimes. I don't know.
- I used to get nervous, you know if my parents would come watch. And then I would get nervous if my friends came and watched. Today it's not a problem anymore actually, because now I enjoy it. I see that they, you know, respect me immensely, and I try to put on a good show and show that I can still play very good tennis.
- When I won in 2003, never in my wildest dreams did I ever think I would win Wimbledon and have my kids seeing me lift the trophy, so this is pretty surreal. And yeah, I was almost shocked in the moment that it all came together so nicely.
- Before, I guess, mum and dad were everything, but now, in my case, I had two new girls and all of a sudden they're completely dependent on you and there's a third generation. It's a funny shift all of a sudden. You have the babies, you have yourself and then you have your parents.
- My dad said if you become a tennis professional just make sure you get into the top hundred, because you have to make a little bit of money. You make a living so you can pay your coaching and, you know, your travels.
- When you do something best in life, you don't really want to give that up - and for me it's tennis.
- When there is nothing to talk about don't force yourself to say anything because it may land you in trouble.
- It’s crazy how people say, "I rely on facts," And believe thier television sets.
- Some people are drawn naturally - there are natural guitarists, and there are natural piano players, and I think guitar implies travel, a sort of footloose gypsy existence. You grab your bag and you go to the next town.