More quotes by Eleanor Roosevelt

"People grow through experience if they meet life honestly and courageously. This is how character is built."
"It takes courage to love, but pain through love is the purifying fire which those who love generously know. We all know people who are so much afraid of pain that they shut themselves up like clams in a shell and, giving out nothing, receive nothing and therefore shrink until life is a mere living death."
"Today is the oldest you've ever been, and the youngest you'll ever be again."
"No matter how plain a woman may be, if truth and honesty are written across her face, she will be beautiful."
"You must do the things you think you cannot do."