
Do one thing every day that scares you.Eleanor Roosevelt
American abolitionist and writer (1813–1897), author of Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl (1861), the first full-length narrative by a Black woman published in the United States.
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Do one thing every day that scares you.Eleanor Roosevelt

Risk! Risk anything! Care no more for the opinions of others.Katherine Mansfield

The true warrior dares to face life's bleakness squarely, and to look straight at its flowing blood.Lu Xun

A woman is like a tea bag; you never know how strong it is until it's in hot water.Eleanor Roosevelt

Security is mostly a superstition. It does not exist in nature, nor do the children of men as a whole experience it.Helen Keller

If you can't fly, run. If you can't run, walk. If you can't walk, crawl, but by all means, keep moving.Martin Luther King Jr.

I was the conductor of the Underground Railroad for eight years, and I can say what most conductors can't say — I never ran my train off the track and I never lost a passenger.Harriet Tubman

Every man's foremost task is the actualization of his unique, unprecedented and never-recurring potentialities, and not the repetition of something that another, and be it even the greatest, has already achieved.Martin Buber