Eleanor Roosevelt Quotes About Failing

Quotes about: Failing

• You gain strength, courage, and confidence by every experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face.... The danger lies in refusing to face the fear, in not daring to come to grips with it. If you fail anywhere along the line it will take away your confidence. You must make yourself succeed every time. You must do the thing you think you cannot do.

  Eleanor Roosevelt

  Lying, Thinking, Growth

  Eleanor Roosevelt (1960). “You Learn by Living”, p.29, Westminster John Knox Press

• I can't tell you how to succeed, but I can tell you how to fail: Try to please everybody.

  Eleanor Roosevelt

  Trying, Succeed, Failing

• Do the things that interest you and do them with all your heart. Don't be concerned about whether people are watching you or criticizing you. The chances are that they aren't paying any attention to you. It's your attention to yourself that is so stultifying. But you have to disregard yourself as completely as possible. If you fail the first time then you'll just have to try harder the second time. After all, there's no real reason why you should fail. Just stop thinking about yourself.

  Eleanor Roosevelt

  Real, Heart, Thinking

  Eleanor Roosevelt (1960). “You Learn by Living”, p.32, Westminster John Knox Press

• All human beings have failings, all human beings have needs and temptations and stresses. Men and women who live together through long years get to know one another's failings; but they also come to know what is worthy of respect and admiration in those they live with and in themselves. If at the end one can say, This man used to the limit the powers that God granted him; he was worthy of love and respect and of the sacrifices of many people, made in order that he might achieve what he deemed to be his task, then that life has been lived well and there are no regrets.

  Eleanor Roosevelt

  Love, Regret, Stress

  Eleanor Roosevelt (1961). “Autobiography”

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

  Eleanor Roosevelt

  Inspirational, Confidence, Courageous

• We women are callow fledglings as compared with the wise old birds who manipulate the political machinery, and we still hesitate to believe that a woman can fill certain positions in public life as competently and adequately as a man. For instance, it is certain that women do not want a woman for President. Nor would they have the slightest confidence in her ability to fulfill the functions of that office. Every woman who fails in a public position confirms this, but every woman who succeeds creates confidence.

  Eleanor Roosevelt

  Wise, Believe, Men

  Eleanor Roosevelt (1995). “What I Hope to Leave Behind: The Essential Essays of Eleanor Roosevelt”, Carlson Pub

• If we fail to meet our problems here, no one else in the world will do so. If we fail, the heart goes out of progressives throughout the world.

  Eleanor Roosevelt

  Heart, Democracy, World

• Ability is not something to be saved, like money, in the hope that you can draw interest on it. The interest comes from the spending. Unused ability, like unused muscles, will atrophy. It is tragic to realize that the majority of human beings, even the so-called educated, call upon only the smallest fraction of their potential capacity. They leave many talents dormant. They fail to develop their mental qualities. They are almost unaware of the degree of energy upon which they might call to build a full and rewarding life.

  Eleanor Roosevelt

  Quality, Might, Energy

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