Famous quotes by First Ladys

Barbara Bush

"One thing I can say about George... he may not be able to keep a job, but he's not boring"

Barbara Bush, First Lady

Barbara Bush

"Never lose sight of the fact that the most important yardstick of your success will be how you treat other people - your family, friends, and coworkers, and even strangers you meet along the way"

Barbara Bush, First Lady

Barbara Bush

"My son, George, has been a bad, bad boy! Right, George?"

Barbara Bush, First Lady

Barbara Bush

"It was the dumbest thing I had ever seen, but it's a family thing, and I guess it's clean"

Barbara Bush, First Lady

Barbara Bush

"It seems to me I spent my life in car pools, but you know, that's how I kept track of what was going on"

Barbara Bush, First Lady

Barbara Bush

"If human beings are perceived as potentials rather than problems, as possessing strengths instead of weaknesses, as unlimited rather that dull and unresponsive, then they thrive and grow to their capabilities"

Barbara Bush, First Lady

Barbara Bush

"I'm not a competitive person, and I think women like me because they don't think I'm competitive, just nice"

Barbara Bush, First Lady

Eleanor Roosevelt

"You must do the things you think you cannot do"

Eleanor Roosevelt, First Lady

Eleanor Roosevelt

"You have to accept whatever comes and the only important thing is that you meet it with courage and with the best that you have to give"

Eleanor Roosevelt, First Lady

Eleanor Roosevelt

"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, First Lady

Eleanor Roosevelt

"You can't move so fast that you try to change the mores faster than people can accept it. That doesn't mean you do nothing, but it means that you do the things that need to be done according to priority"

Eleanor Roosevelt, First Lady

Eleanor Roosevelt

"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"

Eleanor Roosevelt, First Lady

Eleanor Roosevelt

"Women are like teabags. We don't know our true strength until we are in hot water!"

Eleanor Roosevelt, First Lady

Eleanor Roosevelt

"With the new day comes new strength and new thoughts"

Eleanor Roosevelt, First Lady

Eleanor Roosevelt

"When you cease to make a contribution, you begin to die"

Eleanor Roosevelt, First Lady

Eleanor Roosevelt

"When will our consciences grow so tender that we will act to prevent human misery rather than avenge it?"

Eleanor Roosevelt, First Lady

Eleanor Roosevelt

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

Eleanor Roosevelt, First Lady

Eleanor Roosevelt

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

Eleanor Roosevelt, First Lady

Eleanor Roosevelt

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

Eleanor Roosevelt, First Lady

Eleanor Roosevelt

"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"

Eleanor Roosevelt, First Lady

Eleanor Roosevelt

"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"

Eleanor Roosevelt, First Lady

Eleanor Roosevelt

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

Eleanor Roosevelt, First Lady

Eleanor Roosevelt

"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"

Eleanor Roosevelt, First Lady

Eleanor Roosevelt

"Perhaps nature is our best assurance of immortality"

Eleanor Roosevelt, First Lady

Eleanor Roosevelt

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

Eleanor Roosevelt, First Lady

Eleanor Roosevelt

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

Eleanor Roosevelt, First Lady

Eleanor Roosevelt

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

Eleanor Roosevelt, First Lady

Eleanor Roosevelt

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

Eleanor Roosevelt, First Lady

Eleanor Roosevelt

"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"

Eleanor Roosevelt, First Lady

Eleanor Roosevelt

"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"

Eleanor Roosevelt, First Lady

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