Eleanor Roosevelt You gain strength, courage, and confidence by every experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face. You must do the thing which you think you cannot do. I gain strength, courage and confidence by every experience in which I must stop and look fear in the face.  I say to myself, I've lived through this and can take the next thing that comes along. My experience has been that work is almost the best way to pull oneself out of the depths. Never allow a person to tell you NO who doesn't have the power to say YES. As for accomplishments, I just did what I had to do as things came along. Nobody can make you feel inferior without your consent. What one has to do usually can be done. What is to give light must endure the burning. Mary Anne Radmacher Courage doesn't always roar. Sometimes courage is the quiet voice at the end of the day, saying, "I will try again tomorrow." Julie Nixon Eisenhower Basically, women have to prove they are strong at all times. And then when they go on the attack, they have to not appear mean because those women often get the label of being catty. Coco Chanel Women have always been the strong ones of the world. The men are always seeking from women a little pillow to put their heads down on. They are always longing for the mother who held them as infants. Ruth Benedict I long to speak out the intense inspiration that comes to me from the lives of strong women. George Bernard Shaw We don't stop playing because we grow old; we grow old because we stop playing.  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow I breathed a song into the air, It fell to earth, I knew not where; For who has sight so keen and strong, That it can follow the flight of song - The song from beginning to end, I found again in the heart of a friend.