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Inspirational Quotes from Eleanor Roosevelt

Inspirational Quotes for Speeches

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These quotes from Eleanor Roosevelt would be great additions to graduation or other classroom speeches. Use these in conjunction with themes and speech writing techniques.
  • Great minds discuss ideas; Average minds discuss events; Small minds discuss people.

  • I believe that anyone can conquer fear by doing the things he fears to do, provided he keeps doing them until he gets a record of successful experience behind him.

  • In the long run, we shape our lives, and we shape ourselves. The process never ends until we die. And the choices we make are ultimately our own responsibility.

  • Learn from the mistakes of others. You can’t live long enough to make them all yourself.

  • You can often change your circumstances by changing your attitude.

  • Life is what you make it. Always has been, always will be.

  • What could we accomplish if we knew we could not fail?

  • People grow through experience if they meet life honestly and courageously. This is how character is built.

  • A stumbling block to the pessimist is a stepping-stone to the optimist.

  • You have to accept whatever comes along and the only important thing is that you meet it with the best you have to give.

  • We do not have to become heroes overnight. Just a step at a time, meeting each thing that comes up, seeing it as not as dreadful as it appears, discovering that we have the strength to stare it down.

  • No one can make you feel inferior without your consent.

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