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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.

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“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.”

— Eleanor Roosevelt

Life

All Quotes by Eleanor Roosevelt

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

— Eleanor Roosevelt

Happiness

“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

“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

“Justice cannot be for one side alone, but must be for both.”

— Eleanor Roosevelt

Alone

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

— Eleanor Roosevelt

War

“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.”

— Eleanor Roosevelt

Life

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

— Eleanor Roosevelt

Friendship

“People grow through experience if they meet life honestly and courageously. This is how character is built.”

— Eleanor Roosevelt

Experience

“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

“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

Education

“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.”

— Eleanor Roosevelt

Birthday

“Great minds discuss ideas average minds discuss events small minds discuss people.”

— Eleanor Roosevelt

Great

“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

Politics

“Actors are one family over the entire world.”

— Eleanor Roosevelt

Family

“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

“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

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

— Eleanor Roosevelt

Best

“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.”

— Eleanor Roosevelt

Freedom

“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

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

— Eleanor Roosevelt

Power