Eleanor Roosevelt the First Lady, biography, facts and quotes

"The giving of love is an education in itself"

"A woman is like a tea bag - you can't tell how strong she is until you put her in hot water"

"Have convictions. Be friendly. Stick to your beliefs as they stick to theirs. Work as hard as they do"

"Hate and force cannot be in just a part of the world without having an effect on the rest of it"

"Happiness is not a goal; it is a by-product"

"Great minds discuss ideas; average minds discuss events; small minds discuss people"

"Friendship with ones self is all important, because without it one cannot be friends with anyone else in the world"

"Freedom makes a huge requirement of every human being. With freedom comes responsibility. For the person who is unwilling to grow up, the person who does not want to carry is own weight, this is a frightening prospect"

"Do what you feel in your heart to be right- for you'll be criticized anyway. You'll be damned if you do, and damned if you don't"

"Campaign behavior for wives: Always be on time. Do as little talking as humanly possible. Lean back in the parade car so everybody can see the president"

"Autobiographies are only useful as the lives you read about and analyze may suggest to you something that you may find useful in your own journey through life"

"As for accomplishments, I just did what I had to do as things came along"

"Anyone who thinks must think of the next war as they would of suicide"

"Anyone who knows history, particularly the history of Europe, will, I think, recognize that the domination of education or of government by any one particular religious faith is never a happy arrangement for the people"

"Ambition is pitiless. Any merit that it cannot use it finds despicable"

"Actors are one family over the entire world"

"A little simplification would be the first step toward rational living, I think"

"The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams"

"The Bible illustrated by Dore occupied many of my hours - and I think probably gave me many nightmares"

"The battle for the individual rights of women is one of long standing and none of us should countenance anything which undermines it"

"Sometimes I wonder if we shall ever grow up in our politics and say definite things which mean something, or whether we shall always go on using generalities to which everyone can subscribe, and which mean very little"

"Since you get more joy out of giving joy to others, you should put a good deal of thought into the happiness that you are able to give"

"Remember always that you not only have the right to be an individual, you have an obligation to be one"

"Probably the happiest period in life most frequently is in middle age, when the eager passions of youth are cooled, and the infirmities of age not yet begun; as we see that the shadows, which are at morning and evening so large, almost entirely disappear at midday"

"Perhaps nature is our best assurance of immortality"

"People grow through experience if they meet life honestly and courageously. This is how character is built"

"It is not more vacation we need - it is more vocation"

"It is not fair to ask of others what you are not willing to do yourself"

"It is better to light a candle than curse the darkness"

"In the long run, we shape our lives, and we shape ourselves. The process never ends until we die. And the choices we make are ultimately our own responsibility"

"In all our contacts it is probably the sense of being really needed and wanted which gives us the greatest satisfaction and creates the most lasting bond"

"If life were predictable it would cease to be life, and be without flavor"

"I'm so glad I never feel important, it does complicate life!"

"I used to tell my husband that, if he could make me 'understand' something, it would be clear to all the other people in the country"

"I think, at a child's birth, if a mother could ask a fairy godmother to endow it with the most useful gift, that gift should be curiosity"

"I think that somehow, we learn who we really are and then live with that decision"

"I once had a rose named after me and I was very flattered. But I was not pleased to read the description in the catalogue: no good in a bed, but fine up against a wall"

"I have spent many years of my life in opposition, and I rather like the role"

"I can not believe that war is the best solution. No one won the last war, and no one will win the next war"

"I believe that anyone can conquer fear by doing the things he fears to do, provided he keeps doing them until he gets a record of successful experience behind him"

"What you don't do can be a destructive force"

"The only advantage of not being too good a housekeeper is that your guests are so pleased to feel how very much better they are"

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

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

"Too often the great decisions are originated and given form in bodies made up wholly of men, or so completely dominated by them that whatever of special value women have to offer is shunted aside without expression"

"What one has to do usually can be done"

"We gain strength, and courage, and confidence by each experience in which we really stop to look fear in the face... we must do that which we think we cannot"

"It isn't enough to talk about peace. One must believe in it. And it isn't enough to believe in it. One must work at it"

"We are afraid to care too much, for fear that the other person does not care at all"

"There are practical little things in housekeeping which no man really understands"

Born as	Anna Eleanor Roosevelt
Occup.	First Lady
From	USA
Born	October 11, 1884 New York City, New York, USA
Died	November 7, 1962 New York City, New York, USA
Cause	Hypertensive Heart Disease
Aged	78 years

Eleanor Roosevelt Biography

60 Famous quotes by Eleanor Roosevelt