Eleanor Roosevelt: You gain strength, courage, and confidence by every experience in which you…
You gain strength, courage, and confidence by every experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face. You must do the thing which you think you cannot do.
- Source
- From the book You Learn by Living, 1960, pp. 29-30
- Also quoted as
- Also quoted as “You gain strength, courage, and confidence by every experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face.”
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