A great deal of fear is a result of just ‘not knowing.’ We do not know what is involved in a new situation. We do not know whether we can deal with it. The sooner we learn what it entails, the sooner we can dissolve our fear.
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Other Eleanor Roosevelt quotes:
Before we can make friends with anyone else, we must first make friends with ourselves.
Never mistake knowledge for wisdom. One helps you make a living; the other helps you make a life.
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.
Friendship with ones self is all important, because without it one cannot be friends with anyone else in the world.
Unused ability, like unused muscles, will atrophy.
Today is the oldest you've ever been, and the youngest you'll ever be again.
We don't become heroes overnight.' - One step at a time, eventually discovering we have the strength to stare it down.
Ambition is pitiless. Any merit that it cannot use it finds despicable.
No man is defeated without until he has first been defeated within.
The future is literally in our hands to mold as we like. But we cannot wait until tomorrow. Tomorrow is now.
