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Quote by Eleanor Roosevelt
We gain strength, and courage, and confidence by each experience i

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. – Eleanor Roosevelt

Other quotes by Eleanor Roosevelt

Sometimes I wonder if we shall ever grow up in our politics and say definite things which mean something, or whether we shall always go on using generalities to which everyone can subscribe, and which mean very little. – Eleanor Roosevelt

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Politics
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Eleanor Roosevelt
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We are afraid to care too much, for fear that the other person does not care at all. – Eleanor Roosevelt

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Fear
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Eleanor Roosevelt
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Other Quotes from
Courage
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I started to send my work to journals when I was 26, which was just a question of when I got the courage up. They were mostly journals I had been reading for the previous six or seven years. – Marilyn Hacker

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Courage

I know that if Id had to go and take an exam for acting, I wouldnt have got anywhere. You dont take exams for acting, you take your courage. – Dame Edith Evans

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Courage

It was actually a womens writing group I belonged to in graduate school that gave me the courage to move from poetry to fiction. – Mary Gordon

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Courage

Womens courage is rather different from mens. The fact that women have to bring up children and look after husbands makes them braver at facing long-term issues, such as illness. Men are more immediately courageous. Lots of people are brave in battle. – Mary Wesley

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Courage

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I am hoping that I can be known as a great writer and actor some day, rather than a sex symbol. – Steven Seagal

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Psychologists now recognize that the need in some people to have a dozen cats is really a sublimated desire to have two dozen cats. – Robert Brault, rbrault.blogspot.com

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Cats

We oppose the reactionary policies of the U.S. government but we do not oppose the American people. We want to have many good friends in the United States. – Kim Jong Il

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THE SNOW had begun in the gloaming,
And busily all the night
Had been heaping field and highway
With a silence deep and white.

Every pine and fir and hemlock
Wore ermine too dear for an earl,
And the poorest twig on the elm-tree
Was ridged inch deep with pearl. – James Russell Lowell

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Snow