Eleanor Roosevelt the First Lady, biography, facts and quotes

"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"

"The giving of love is an education in itself"

"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"

"The only things one can admire at length are those one admires without knowing why"

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

"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"

"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.'"

"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"

"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"

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

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

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

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

"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"

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