Eleanor Roosevelt Quotes

Courage is being afraid, but then doing what you have to do anyway.

Action conquers fear.

Our greatest glory is not in never failing, but in rising up every time we fail.

Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear - not absence of fear.

In order to do any thing in this world worth doing, we must not stand shivering on the bank thinking of the cold and the danger, but jump in and scramble through as well as we can.

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.

I don't define myself by my successes. I define myself by adversity and how I've persevered.

Courage isn't just a matter of not being frightened, you know. It's being afraid and doing what you have to do anyway.

Courage is being afraid - and going ahead, anyway.

The encouraging thing is that every time you meet a situation, though you may think at the time it is an impossibility and you go through the tortures of the damned, once you have met it and lived through it you find that forever after you are freer than you ever were before. . . . 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.

You gain strength, courage, and confidence by every experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face.... The danger lies in refusing to face the fear, in not daring to come to grips with it. If you fail anywhere along the line it will take away your confidence. You must make yourself succeed every time. You must do the thing you think you cannot do.

My dad always said, 'Champ, the measure of a man is not how often he is knocked down, but how quickly he gets up.'

The greatest accomplishment is not in never falling, but in rising again after you fall.

You are victors, not victims!

Greatness comes from fear. Fear can either shut us down and we go home, or we fight through it.

I've been absolutely terrified every moment of my life - and I've never let it keep me from doing a single thing I wanted to do.

Never let the fear of striking out get in your way.

It's not necessary to fear the prospect of failure but to be determined not to fail.

When you're fearless, you take more risks because you're less conscious of failure or what can go wrong.

Courage is never to let your actions be influenced by your fears.

The greatest glory never comes from falling, but from rising each time you fall.

Let us banish fear.

Courage mounteth with occasion

True courage is being afraid, and going ahead and doing your job.

Do what is beyond your strength even should you fail sometimes.