Beautiful young people are accidents of nature, but beautiful old people are works of art.

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"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."

- Eleanor Roosevelt

Courage

"You gain strength, courage, and confidence by every experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face. You are able to say to yourself, ‘I lived through this horror. I can take the next thing that comes along.’"

- Eleanor Roosevelt

Courage

"When you give joy to other people, you get more joy in return. You should give a good thought to the happiness that you can give out."

- Eleanor Roosevelt

Compassion

"Women must learn to play the game as men do."

- Eleanor Roosevelt

Empowerment

"Do not stop thinking of life as an adventure. You have no security unless you can live bravely, excitingly, imaginatively; unless you can choose a challenge instead of competence."

- Eleanor Roosevelt

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"In order to be irreplaceable one must always be different."

- Coco Chanel

Originality

"In order to be irreplaceable, one must always be different."

- Coco Chanel

Originality

"Whatever you do, be different – that was the advice my mother gave me, and I can’t think of better advice for an entrepreneur. If you’re different, you will stand out."

- Anita Roddick

Originality

"If every tiny flower wanted to be a rose, spring would lose its loveliness."

- Therese of Lisieux

Originality

"There was no one near to confuse me, so I was forced to become original."

- Franz Joseph Haydn

Originality