Quotes by Eleanor Roosevelt

About Eleanor Roosevelt:

Anna Eleanor Roosevelt was an American politician, diplomat, and activist. She was the longest-serving First Lady of the United States, holding the post from March 1933 to April 1945 during her husband President Franklin D. Roosevelt's four terms in office. President Harry S. Truman later called her the "First Lady of the World" in tribute to her human rights achievements.
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Do what you feel in your heart to be right- for you'll be criticized anyways.

Eleanor Roosevelt

No matter how plain a woman may be, if truth and honesty are written across her face, she will be beautiful.

Eleanor Roosevelt

Character building begins in our infancy and continues until death.

Eleanor Roosevelt

You wouldn't worry so much about what others think of you if you realized how seldom they do.

Eleanor Roosevelt

What could we accomplish if we knew we could not fail?

Eleanor Roosevelt

Happiness is not a goal...it's a by-product of a life well lived.

Eleanor Roosevelt

You must do the things you think you cannot.

Eleanor Roosevelt

The encouraging thing is that every time you meet a situation, though you may think at the time it is an impossibility and you go through the tortures of the damned, once you have met it and lived through it you find that forever after you are freer ...

Eleanor Roosevelt

...so much attention is paid to the aggressive sins, such as violence and cruelty, and greed with all their tragic effects, that too little attention is paid to the passive sins, such as apathy and laziness, which in the long run can have a more deva...

Eleanor Roosevelt

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.

Eleanor Roosevelt

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

Eleanor Roosevelt

...our children must learn...to face full responsibility for their actions, to make their own choices and cope with the results...the whole democratic system...depends upon it. For our system is founded on self-government, which is untenable if the i...

Eleanor Roosevelt

We have to make these young people (of the Depression) feel that they are necessary. (They should be given) "certain things for which youth craves – the chance for self-sacrifice for an ideal.

Eleanor Roosevelt

Pit race against race, religion against religion, prejudice against prejudice. Divide and conquer! We must not let that happen here.

Eleanor Roosevelt

When it's better for everyone, it's better for everyone.

Eleanor Roosevelt

Do one thing every day that scares you.

Eleanor Roosevelt

You gain strength, courage, and confidence by every experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face. You must do the thing which you think you cannot do.

Eleanor Roosevelt

Many people will walk in and out of your life, but only true friends will leave footprints in your heart

Eleanor Roosevelt

When will our consciences grow so tender that we are moved to prevent suffering, not just avenge it?

Eleanor Roosevelt

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.

Eleanor Roosevelt

Life was meant to be lived, and curiosity must be kept alive. One must never, for whatever reason, turn his back on life.

Eleanor Roosevelt

Author Bio

  • NameEleanor Roosevelt
  • Descriptionwife of Franklin Delano Roosevelt and First Lady of the United States
  • AliasesAnna Eleanor Roosevelt
  • BornOctober 11, 1884
  • DiedNovember 7, 1962
  • CountryUnited States Of America
  • ProfessionDiplomat; Writer; Autobiographer; Politician
  • AwardsUnited Nations Prize In The Field Of Human Rights; Gandhi Peace Award; National Women's Hall Of Fame