Eleanor Roosevelt

You must do the things you think you cannot do.
- Eleanor Roosevelt

With the new day comes new strength and new thoughts.
- Eleanor Roosevelt

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.'
Eleanor Roosevelt

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

Great minds discuss ideas; average minds discuss events; small minds discuss people.
- Eleanor Roosevelt

The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams.
- Eleanor Roosevelt

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

We are afraid to care too much, for fear that the other person does not care at all.
- 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

What you don't do can be a destructive force.
- Eleanor Roosevelt

No one can make you feel inferior without your consent.
- Eleanor Roosevelt

If life were predictable it would cease to be life, and be without flavor.
- Eleanor Roosevelt

Never allow a person to tell you no who doesn't have the power to say yes.
- Eleanor Roosevelt

The giving of love is an education in itself.
- Eleanor Roosevelt

Do what you feel in your heart to be right- for you'll be criticized anyway. You'll be damned if you do, and damned if you don't.
- Eleanor Roosevelt

It is not fair to ask of others what you are not willing to do yourself.
- Eleanor Roosevelt

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

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

Only a man's character is the real criterion of worth.
- Eleanor Roosevelt

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

When you cease to make a contribution, you begin to die.
- Eleanor Roosevelt

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.
- Eleanor Roosevelt

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

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.
- Eleanor Roosevelt

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.
- Eleanor Roosevelt

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.
- Eleanor Roosevelt

Biography
Nationality: American
Type: First Lady
Born: October 11, 1884
Died: November 7, 1962
Eleanor Roosevelt was a debutante, an activist, and a reluctant first lady.