Eleanor Roosevelt Quotes https://www.brainyquote.com/authors/eleanor_roosevelt

American - First Lady October 11, 1884 - November 7, 1962

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

The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams.

Eleanor Roosevelt

In the long run, we shape our lives, and we shape ourselves. The process never ends until we die. And the choices we make are ultimately our own responsibility.

Eleanor Roosevelt

It is not fair to ask of others what you are not willing to do yourself.

Eleanor Roosevelt

In all our contacts it is probably the sense of being really needed and wanted which gives us the greatest satisfaction and creates the most lasting bond.

Eleanor Roosevelt

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

The battle for the individual rights of women is one of long standing and none of us should countenance anything which undermines it.

Eleanor Roosevelt

Sometimes I wonder if we shall ever grow up in our politics and say definite things which mean something, or whether we shall always go on using generalities to which everyone can subscribe, and which mean very little.

Eleanor Roosevelt

Friendship with ones self is all important, because without it one cannot be friends with anyone else in the world.

Eleanor Roosevelt

Others born on this day.

Francois Mauriac Quotes https://www.brainyquote.com/authors/francois_mauriac

French - Novelist October 11, 1885 - September 1, 1970

To love someone is to see a miracle invisible to others.

Francois Mauriac

Nhat Hanh Quotes https://www.brainyquote.com/authors/nhat_hanh

Vietnamese - Activist Born: October 11, 1926

If you have the chance to be exposed to a loving, understanding environment where the seed of compassion, loving kindness, can be watered every day, then you become a more loving person.

Nhat Hanh

Russell Freedman Quotes https://www.brainyquote.com/authors/russell_freedman

American - Author Born: October 11, 1929

I sensed that Confucius is an interesting character. This is someone who lived over 2,500 years ago and is still speaking to us. That people are still reading and repeating what he said so long ago is something I find quite fascinating.

Russell Freedman

Richard Paul Evans Quotes https://www.brainyquote.com/authors/richard_paul_evans

American - Author Born: October 11, 1962

Everyone has some inner power that awaits discovery.

Richard Paul Evans

Anne Enright Quotes https://www.brainyquote.com/authors/anne_enright

Irish - Author Born: October 11, 1962

There often is a dark secret in books... There is often a gathering sense of dread; there's a gap sometimes in the text from which all kinds of monsters can emerge.

Anne Enright

Shawn Ryan Quotes https://www.brainyquote.com/authors/shawn_ryan

American - Writer Born: October 11, 1966

I was never that kid who grew up in New York and was always at the arthouse watching important films. I was the kid who grew up in the Midwest where there weren't any art films, and I watched TV. And that was really the medium that affected me and that I fell in love with.

Shawn Ryan