You always admire what you really don't understand.

— Eleanor Roosevelt

You can not live at all if you do not learn to adapt yourself to your life as it happens to be.

— Eleanor Roosevelt

You can't move so fast that you try to change [a situation] faster than people can accept it. That doesn't mean you do nothing but it means that you do the things that need to be done according to priority.

— Eleanor Roosevelt

You can't move so fast that you try to change the mores faster than people can accept it. That doesn't mean you do nothing, but it means that you do the things that need to be done according to priority.

— Eleanor Roosevelt

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 have lived through this horror. I can take the next thing that comes along.' You must do the thing you think you cannot do.

— Eleanor Roosevelt

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

You gain strength courage and confidence by every experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face.... You must do the thing you think you cannot do.

— Eleanor Roosevelt

You have to accept whatever comes and the only important thing is that you meet it with courage and with the best that you have to give.

— Eleanor Roosevelt

You have to accept whatever comes and the only important thing is that you meet it with the best you have to give.

— Eleanor Roosevelt

You have to accept whatever comes, and the only important thing is that you meet it with the best you have to give.

— Eleanor Roosevelt