Anna Eleanor Roosevelt (1884–1962) was an American political figure, diplomat, pacifist and activist. She was the first lady of the United States from 1933 to 1945, during her husband President Franklin D. Roosevelt's four terms in office, making her the longest-serving first lady of the United States.
President Harry S. Truman later called her the "First Lady of the World" in tribute to her human rights achievements.
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Eleanor Roosevelt Quotes and Sayings
Great minds discuss ideas; average minds discuss events; small minds discuss people.
A woman is like a tea bag; you never know how strong it is until it's in hot water.
With the new day comes new strength and new thoughts.
Do one thing every day that scares you.
The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams.
Do what you feel in your heart to be right – for you'll be criticized anyway.
If life were predictable it would cease to be life, and be without flavor.
The purpose of life is to live it, to taste experience to the utmost, to reach out eagerly and without fear for newer and richer experience.
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 his own weight, this is a frightening prospect.
It takes courage to love, but pain through love is the purifying fire which those who love generously know. We all know people who are so much afraid of pain that they shut themselves up like clams in a shell and, giving out nothing, receive nothing and therefore shrink until life is a mere living death.
No one can make you feel inferior without your consent.
Many people will walk in and out of your life, but only true friends will leave footprints in your heart.
It is not fair to ask of others what you are not willing to do yourself.
No matter how plain a woman may be, if truth and honesty are written across her face, she will be beautiful.
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.
We are afraid to care too much, for fear that the other person does not care at all.
Never allow a person to tell you no who doesn't have the power to say yes.
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 have lived through this horror. I can take the next thing that comes along.' You must do the thing you think you cannot do.
To handle yourself, use your head; to handle others, use your heart.
Happiness is not a goal... it's a by-product of a life well lived.
You can often change your circumstances by changing your attitude.
Life is what you make it. Always has been, always will be.
Beautiful young people are accidents of nature, but beautiful old people are works of art.
Life was meant to be lived, and curiosity must be kept alive. One must never, for whatever reason, turn his back on life.
If someone betrays you once, it's their fault; if they betray you twice, it's your fault.
You have to accept whatever comes, and the only important thing is that you meet it with the best you have to give.
The reason that fiction is more interesting than any other form of literature, to those who really like to study people, is that in fiction the author can really tell the truth without humiliating himself.
What could we accomplish if we knew we could not fail?
With the new day comes new strength and new thoughts.
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.
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.
Once I 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.
When will our consciences grow so tender that we will act to prevent human misery rather than avenge it?
Friendship with oneself is all important, because without it one cannot be friends with anyone else in the world.
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 would be curiosity.
Never mistake knowledge for wisdom. One helps you make a living; the other helps you make a life.
Work is always an antidote to depression.
No one won the last war, and no one will win the next war.
One thing life has taught me: if you are interested, you never have to look for new interests. They come to you. When you are genuinely interested in one thing, it will always lead to something else.
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.
Remember always that you have not only the right to be an individual; you have an obligation to be one. You cannot make any useful contribution in life unless you do this.
The Marines I have seen around the world have the cleanest bodies, the filthiest minds, the highest morale, and the lowest morals of any group of animals I have ever seen. Thank God for the United States Marine Corps!
I believe that anyone can conquer fear by doing the things he fears to do.
When you cease to make a contribution, you begin to die.
People grow through experience if they meet life honestly and courageously. This is how character is built.
Pit race against race, religion against religion, prejudice against prejudice. Divide and conquer! We must not let that happen here.
Light a candle instead of cursing the darkness.
It takes as much energy to wish as it does to plan.
It's your life-but only if you make it so.
Courage is exhilarating.
I think that somehow, we learn who we really are and then live with that decision.
Lest I keep my complacent way I must remember somewhere out there a person died for me today. As long as there must be war, I ask and I must answer was I worth dying for?
One's philosophy is not best expressed in words; it is expressed in the choices one makes. 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.
Today is the oldest you've ever been, and the youngest you'll ever be again.
A stumbling block to the pessimist is a stepping-stone to the optimist.
All of life is a constant education.
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.
There is not human being from whom we cannot learn something if we are interested enough to dig deep.
I have never felt that anything really mattered but knowing that you stood for the things in which you believed and had done the very best you could.
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.
As for accomplishments, I just did what I had to do as things came along.
The giving of love is an education in itself.
I am who I am today because of the choices I made yesterday.
Remember always that you not only have the right to be an individual you have an obligation to be one.
Don't call a woman a bitch. Call her an ass-hole. It still gets your point across and it's not sexist.
The only things one can admire at length are those one admires without knowing why.
Will people ever be wise enough to refuse to follow bad leaders or to take away the freedom of other people?
You should always own a black dress because no one ever remembers a black dress.
You can never really live anyone else's life, not even your child's. The influence you exert is through your own life, and what you've become yourself.
Character building begins in our infancy and continues until death.
We have to face the fact that either all of us are going to die together or we are going to learn to live together, and if we are to live together we have to talk.
Learn from the mistakes of others. You can't live long enough to make them all yourself.
Love can often be misguided and do as much harm as good, but respect can do only good. It assumes that the other person's stature is as large as one's own, his rights as reasonable, his needs as important.
You must do the thing you think you cannot do.
No one can make you feel inferior without your permission.
There are no have-to's, just choices.
What you don't do can be a destructive force.
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.
Every woman wants to be first to someone sometime in her life and that desire is the explanation for many strange things women do.
Never be bored, and you will never be boring.
Understanding is a two-way street.
I could not at any age be content to take my place in a corner by the fireside and simply look on.
Justice cannot be for one side alone, but must be for both.
You always admire what you really don't understand.
If you lose money you lose much, If you lose friends you lose more, If you lose faith you lose all.
Anyone who thinks must think of the next war as they would of suicide.
If man is to be liberated to enjoy more leisure, he must also be prepared to enjoy this leisure fully and creatively.
He who learns but does not think is lost. He who thinks but does not learn is in great danger.
There is nothing to fear except fear it's self.
Absence makes the heart grow fonder.
If anyone were to ask me what I want out of life I would say- the opportunity for doing something useful, for in no other way, I am convinced, can true happiness be attained.
It is a brave thing to have courage to be an individual; it is also, perhaps, a lonely thing. But it is better than not being an individual, which is to be nobody at all.
When you adopt the standards and the values of someone else … you surrender your own integrity. You become, to the extent of your surrender, less of a human being.
When you know to laugh and when to look upon things as too absurd to take seriously, the other person is ashamed to carry through even if he was serious about it.
I know that we will be the sufferers if we let great wrongs occur without exerting ourselves to correct them.
No man is defeated without until he has first been defeated within.
To be a citizen in a democracy, a human being must be given a healthy start.
Each time you learn something new you must readjust the whole framework of your knowledge
We have reached a point today where labor-saving devices are good only when they do not throw the worker out of his job.
A good leader inspires people to have confidence in the leader, a great leader inspires people to have confidence in themselves.
Only a man's character is the real criterion of worth.
For our own success to be real, it must contribute to the success of others.
Tomorrow is a mystery. Today is a gift. That is why it is called the present.
I am who I am today because of the choices I made yesterday.
Nothing has ever been achieved by the person who says, 'It can't be done.'
Many people will walk in and out of your life, but only true friends will leave footprints in your heart.
The giving of love is an education in itself.
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.
I'm so glad I never feel important, it does complicate life!
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