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 anyway.

Eleanor Roosevelt

Friendship with oneself is all important, because without it one cannot be friends with anyone else in the world.

Eleanor Roosevelt

I have never felt that anything really mattered but knowing that you stood for the things in which you believed and had done the very best you could.

Eleanor Roosevelt

Today is the oldest you've ever been, and the youngest you'll ever be again.

Eleanor Roosevelt

To handle yourself, use your head; to handle others, use your heart.

Eleanor Roosevelt

You must do things that you cannot do.

Eleanor Roosevelt

Friendship with oneself is all-important, because without it one cannot be friends with anyone else in the world.

Eleanor Roosevelt

It takes courage to love, but pain through love is the purifying fire which those who love generously know. We all know people who are so much afraid of pain that they shut themselves up like clams in a shell and, giving out nothing, receive nothing ...

Eleanor Roosevelt

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

Eleanor Roosevelt

Don't call a woman a bitch. Call her an ass-hole. It still gets your point across and it's not sexist.

Eleanor Roosevelt

It is often the people who refuse to assume any responsibility who are apt to be the sharpest critics of those who do.

Eleanor Roosevelt

Lest I keep my complacent way I must remember somewhere out there a person died for me today. As long as there must be war, I ask and I must answer was I worth dying for?

Eleanor Roosevelt

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.

Eleanor Roosevelt

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

Eleanor Roosevelt

With the new day comes new strength and new thoughts.

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

Have convictions. Be friendly. Stick to your beliefs as they stick to theirs. Work as hard as they do.

Eleanor Roosevelt
Women quotes by Eleanor Roosevelt, UberQuotes

A woman is like a tea bag - you can't tell how strong she is until you put her in hot water.

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

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