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Eleanor Roosevelt

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Eleanor Roosevelt (1884–1962) was an American political figure, diplomat, and activist who served as First Lady from 1933 to 1945. Far more than a ceremonial figure, she was a driving force for human rights, serving as chair of the UN Commission that drafted the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. Her courage and outspokenness redefined the role of First Lady.

“I'm so glad I never feel important, it does complicate life!”

— Eleanor Roosevelt

Life

All Quotes by 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

Women

“Friendship with ones self is all important, because without it one cannot be friends with anyone else in the world.”

— Eleanor Roosevelt

Friendship

“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

Age

“My experience has been that work is almost the best way to pull oneself out of the depths.”

— Eleanor Roosevelt

Best

“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.”

— Eleanor Roosevelt

Life

“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

Car

“Never allow a person to tell you no who doesn't have the power to say yes.”

— Eleanor Roosevelt

Power

“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

Good

“The giving of love is an education in itself.”

— Eleanor Roosevelt

Education

“Anyone who thinks must think of the next war as they would of suicide.”

— Eleanor Roosevelt

War

“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

Change

“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

Experience

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

— Eleanor Roosevelt

Fear

“The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams.”

— Eleanor Roosevelt

Beauty

“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

Life

“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

Best

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

— Eleanor Roosevelt

Work

“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.”

— Eleanor Roosevelt

Courage

“Perhaps nature is our best assurance of immortality.”

— Eleanor Roosevelt

Best

“Happiness is not a goal it is a by-product.”

— Eleanor Roosevelt

Happiness