A person has three choices in life. You can swim against the tide and get exhausted, or you can tread water and let the tide sweep you away, or you can swim with the tide, and let it take you where it wants you to go.

—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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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.

—Eleanor Roosevelt

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

—Eleanor Roosevelt

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

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Our choices add up; each one influences others, and cumulatively a series of delightful short-term choices can leave us much worse off in the long run.

—Diane Frolov and Andrew Schneider

The first step to getting the things you want out of life is this: Decide what you want.

The more alternatives, the more difficult the choice.

—Abbe' D'Allanival

Tis an ill wind that blows no minds.

—Malaclypse the Younger

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