"I could not at any age be..." - Quote by Eleanor Roosevelt

“Courage is more exhilarating than fear and in the long run it is easier. We do not have to become heroes over night. 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.”

“As for accomplishments, I just did what I had to do as things came along.”

“Strength that goes wrong is even more dangerous than weakness that goes wrong.”

“Life is the faculty of spontaneous activity, the awareness that we have powers.”

“What makes people happy is activity; changing evil itself into good by power, working in a God like manner.”

“Lack of activity destroys the good condition of every human being”

“Life, and you, and I, and all of us together became for a while interesing to ourselves once more.”

“I have long felt that the way to keep children out of trouble is to keep them interested in things.”

“I was able to excite and engage people who previously hadn't been involved in politics, and part of the reason that I was able to be re-elected and stay relatively popular in the United States was because even when the economy was bad or we had problems, people sensed that I listened to them and I was on their side.”