Famous Quotes By Eleanor Roosevelt

 

1. A woman is like a tea bag - you can't tell how strong she is until you put her in hot water.
2. Actors are one family over the entire world.
3. 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.
4. Anyone who thinks must think of the next war as they would of suicide.
5. 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.
6. 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.
7. 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.
8. Friendship with ones self is all important, because without it one cannot be friends with anyone else in the world.
9. Great minds discuss ideas average minds discuss events small minds discuss people.
10. Happiness is not a goal it is a by-product.
11. Have convictions. Be friendly. Stick to your beliefs as they stick to theirs. Work as hard as they do.
12. 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.
13. I can not believe that war is the best solution. No one won the last war, and no one will win the next war.
14. I have spent many years of my life in opposition, and I rather like the role.
15. 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.
16. 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.
17. If life were predictable it would cease to be life, and be without flavor.
18. I'm so glad I never feel important, it does complicate life!
19. 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.
20. Justice cannot be for one side alone, but must be for both.
21. Life must be lived and curiosity kept alive. One must never, for whatever reason, turn his back on life.
22. My experience has been that work is almost the best way to pull oneself out of the depths.
23. Never allow a person to tell you no who doesn't have the power to say yes.
24. Old age has deformities enough of its own. It should never add to them the deformity of vice.
25. One's philosophy is not best expressed in words it is expressed in the choices one makes... and the choices we make are ultimately our responsibility.
26. People grow through experience if they meet life honestly and courageously. This is how character is built.
27. Perhaps nature is our best assurance of immortality.
28. 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.
29. 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.
30. The battle for the individual rights of women is one of long standing and none of us should countenance anything which undermines it.
31. The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams.
32. The giving of love is an education in itself.
33. 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.
34. 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.
35. We are afraid to care too much, for fear that the other person does not care at all.
36. 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.
37. When life is too easy for us, we must beware or we may not be ready to meet the blows which sooner or later come to everyone, rich or poor.
38. With the new day comes new strength and new thoughts.
39. Women are like teabags. We don't know our true strength until we are in hot water!
40. 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.
41. 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.
42. 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.'
43. 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.