Eleanor Roosevelt Quotes About Horror
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When you look fear in the face, you are able to say to yourself, 'I lived through this horror. I can take the next thing that comes along.'
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... the next war will be a war in which people not armies will suffer, and our boasted, hard-earned civilization will do us no good. Cannot the women rise to this great opportunity and work now, and not have the double horror, if another war comes, of losing their loved ones, and knowing that they lifted no finger when they might have worked hard?
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The encouraging thing is that every time you meet a situation, though you may think at the time it is an impossibility and you go through the tortures of the damned, once you have met it and lived through it you find that forever after you are freer than you ever were before. . . . You gain strength, courage, and confidence by every experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face. You are able to say to yourself, “I lived through this horror. I can take the next thing that comes along.
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Eleanor Roosevelt
- Born: October 11, 1884
- Died: November 7, 1962
- Occupation: Former First Lady of the United States