Eleanor Roosevelt on motivation and goals

Great minds discuss ideas. Average minds discuss events. Small minds discuss people.

No one can make you feel inferior without your consent.

A woman is like a tea bag. You never know how strong she is until she gets into hot water.

A journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step.

Do, or do not. There is no ‘try.’

Never give in⁠—never, never, never, never, in nothing great or small, large or petty, never give in except to convictions of honour and good sense. Never yield to force; never yield to the apparently overwhelming might of the enemy.

Winston Churchill1874–1965Speech given at Harrow School, Harrow, England, October 29, 1941. Quoted in Churchill by Himself (2008), ed. Langworth, PublicAffairs, 2008, p. 23