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

—Eleanor Roosevelt

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Anna Eleanor Roosevelt ( EL-in-or ROH-zə-velt; October 11, 1884 – November 7, 1962) was an American political figure, diplomat, and activist. She was the longest-serving first lady of the United States, during her husband Franklin D. Roosevelt's four terms as president from 1933 to 1945. Through her travels, public engagement,...

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You must do the things you think you cannot do.

—Eleanor Roosevelt

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.

—Eleanor Roosevelt

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There is… a trait no other nation seems to possess in quite the same degree that we do—namely, a feeling of almost childish injury and resentment unless the world as a whole recognizes how innocent we are of anything but the most generous and harmless intentions.

—Eleanor Roosevelt

We started from scratch, every American an immigrant who came because he wanted change. Why are we now afraid to change?

—Eleanor Roosevelt

The most important thing in any relationship is not what you get but what you give.

—Eleanor Roosevelt

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Many a man's reputation would not know his character if they met on the street.

—Elbert Hubbard

Without an acquaintance with the rules of propriety, it is impossible for the character to be established.

Everyone has the obligation to ponder well his own specific traits of character. He must also regulate them adequately and not wonder whether someone else's traits might suit him better. The more definitely his own a man's character is, the better it fits him.

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Character is like a tree and reputation like its shadow. The shadow is what we think of it; the tree is the real thing.

—Abraham Lincoln

Character is what you have left when you've lost everything you can lose.

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