No man is defeated without until he has first been defeated within.

Eleanor Roosevelt
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  1. This above all: to thine own self be true. - William Shakespeare

  2. What I'm looking for is not out there, it is in me. - Helen Keller

  3. One must find the source within one's own Self, one must possess it. Everything else was seeking -- a detour, an error. - Hermann Hesse

  4. Byron: The luxuries of this place have made me soft. The metal point's gone from my pen, there's nothing left but the feather. Gutman: That may be true. But what can you do about it? Byron: Make a departure. Gutman: From yourself? Byron: From my... - Tennessee Williams

  5. Most people spend their whole lives waging war–against people they don't even know. And against themselves, whom they know least of all." from BETWEEN TWO DESERTS - Germaine Shames

More Quotes By Eleanor Roosevelt
  1. It takes courage to love, but pain through love is the purifying fire which those who love generously know. We all know people who are so much afraid of pain that they shut themselves up like clams in a shell and, giving out nothing, receive...

  2. The purpose of life is to live it, to taste experience to the utmost, to reach out eagerly and without fear for newer and richer experience.

  3. Happiness is not a goal...it's a by-product of a life well lived.

  4. Life was meant to be lived, and curiosity must be kept alive. One must never, for whatever reason, turn his back on life.

  5. Never allow a person to tell you no who doesn't have the power to say yes.

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