You must do the thing you think you cannot do.

Eleanor Roosevelt

Happiness is not a goal, it is a by-product.

Eleanor Roosevelt · From the chapter "Learning to Be Useful" in her last book, written at 76.

You gain strength, courage and confidence by every experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face.

Eleanor Roosevelt · From the same pages as "You must do the thing you think you cannot do."

More Motivational Quotes

The journey of a thousand lî commenced with a single step.

Lao Tzu · Tao Te Ching chapter 64 in James Legge's translation; a li is a Chinese mile, hence the familiar "journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step".

Always bear in mind that your own resolution to succeed, is more important than any other one thing.

Abraham Lincoln · Advice to Isham Reavis, a young man who had asked to study law under him, in a letter of 5 November 1855.

Genius is 1 per cent inspiration and 99 per cent perspiration.

Thomas Edison · Quote Investigator finds Edison quoted with this ratio from 1901 and with "two per cent inspiration" as early as 1898; the familiar spelled-out form appeared in Harper's Monthly in 1932.

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“You must do the thing you think you cannot do.”

“Happiness is not a goal, it is a by-product.”

“You gain strength, courage and confidence by every experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face.”

“The journey of a thousand lî commenced with a single step.”

“Always bear in mind that your own resolution to succeed, is more important than any other one thing.”

“Genius is 1 per cent inspiration and 99 per cent perspiration.”