Quote by Eleanor Roosevelt
You gain strength, courage, and confidence by every experience in

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. – Eleanor Roosevelt

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People grow through experience if they meet life honestly and courageously. This is how character is built. – Eleanor Roosevelt

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It is our conduct, our patriotism and belief in our American way of life, our courage that will win the final battle. – Prescott Bush

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Our young people have come to look upon war as a kind of beneficent deity, which not only adds to the national honor but uplifts a nation and develops patriotism and courage. – Rebecca Harding Davis

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