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Other Eleanor Roosevelt quotes:
The choices we make are ultimately our own responsibility.
No one can make you feel inferior without your consent.
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.
It's your life - but only if you make it so.
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.
If you have to compromise, be sure to compromise up.
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.
The greatest gift you can give a child is an imagination.
Looking back I see that I was always afraid of something: of the dark, of displeasing people, of failure. Anything I accomplished had to be done across a barrier of fear.
At any age it does us no harm to look over our past shortcomings and plan to improve our characters and actions in the coming year.