"As life developed, I faced each problem..." - Quote by Eleanor Roosevelt
As life developed, I faced each problem as it came along. As my activities and work broadened and reached out, I never tried to shirk. I tried never to evade an issue. When I found I had something to do--I just did it.
More by Eleanor Roosevelt
“Success in marriage depends on being able, when you get over being in love, to really love....You never know anyone until you marry them.”
“The most unhappy people in the world are those who face the days without knowing what to do with their time. But if you have more projects than you have time for, you are not going to be an unhappy person. This is as much a question of having imagination and curiosity as it is of actually making plans.”
“All wars eventually act as boomerangs and the victor suffers as much as the vanquished.”
More on Action
“Psychology is action, not thinking about oneself. We continue to shape our personality all our life. To know oneself, one should assert oneself.”
“At day's first light have in readiness, against disinclination to leave your bed, the thought that "I am rising for the work of man."”
“If you hold your fire until you see the whites of his eyes, you will never know what hit you.”
More on Responsibility
“I make all my own decisions and I take full responsibility.”
“To lead uninstructed people to war is to throw them away.”
“During bad circumstances, which is the human inheritance, you must decide not to be reduced. You have your humanity, and you must not allow anything to reduce that. We are obliged to know we are global citizens. Disasters remind us we are world citizens, whether we like it or not.”