First Lady Quotes: Timeless Wisdom and Inspiration (Page 3)

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

Eleanor Roosevelt, First Lady

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

Eleanor Roosevelt, First Lady

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

Eleanor Roosevelt, First Lady

"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

"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

"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

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

Eleanor Roosevelt, First Lady

"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

"Perhaps nature is our best assurance of immortality"

Eleanor Roosevelt, First Lady

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

Eleanor Roosevelt, First Lady

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

Eleanor Roosevelt, First Lady

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

Eleanor Roosevelt, First Lady

"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

"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

"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"

Eleanor Roosevelt, First Lady

"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"

Eleanor Roosevelt, First Lady

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

Eleanor Roosevelt, First Lady

"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"

Eleanor Roosevelt, First Lady

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

Eleanor Roosevelt, First Lady

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

Eleanor Roosevelt, First Lady

"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"

Eleanor Roosevelt, First Lady

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

Eleanor Roosevelt, First Lady

"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"

Eleanor Roosevelt, First Lady

"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"

Eleanor Roosevelt, First Lady

"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"

Eleanor Roosevelt, First Lady

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

Eleanor Roosevelt, First Lady

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

Eleanor Roosevelt, First Lady

"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"

Eleanor Roosevelt, First Lady

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

Eleanor Roosevelt, First Lady

"Actors are one family over the entire world"

Eleanor Roosevelt, First Lady

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