"If you have spent two years in..." - Quote by Franklin D Roosevelt
If you have spent two years in bed trying to wiggle your big toe, everything else seems easy.
More by Franklin D Roosevelt
“Private enterprise is ceasing to be free enterprise. Private enterprise, indeed, became too private. It became privileged enterprise, not free enterprise.”
“It was natural and perhaps human that the privileged princes of these new economic dynasties, thirsting for power, reached out for control over government itself. They created a new despotism and wrapped it in the robes of legal sanction. ...And as a result the average man once more confronts the problem that faced the Minute Man.”
“Do the best you can do and wait the results in peace.”
More on Perspective
“I needn't tell you that success and failure prove nothing - the whole thing is a lottery. It's pleasant to succeed; but for a philosophic mind it oughtn't to be very upsetting to fail.”
“Every failure is a blessing in disguise, providing it teaches some needed lesson one could not have learned without it. Most so-called Failures are only temporary defeats.”
“I am very glad I have travelled. Travel improves the mind wonderfully, and does away with all one's prejudices.”
More on Adversity
“Through my grandmother's stories always life moved, moved heroically toward an end. Nobody ever cried in my grandmother's stories. They worked, or schemed, or fought. But no crying. When my grandmother died, I didn't cry, either. Something about my grandmother's stories (without her ever having said so) taught me the uselessness of crying about anything."”
“It is our enemies who provide us with the challenge we need to develop the qualities of tolerance, patience and compassion.”
“When everything seems to be going against you, remember that the airplane takes off against the wind, not with it.”