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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.

“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

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

“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

“If life were predictable it would cease to be life, and be without flavor.”

— Eleanor Roosevelt

Life

“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 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

“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

Great

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

— Eleanor Roosevelt

Alone

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

— Eleanor Roosevelt

Power

“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

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

— Eleanor Roosevelt

Experience

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

— Eleanor Roosevelt

Life

“Perhaps nature is our best assurance of immortality.”

— Eleanor Roosevelt

Best

“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

“The only advantage of not being too good a housekeeper is that your guests are so pleased to feel how very much better they are.”

— Eleanor Roosevelt

Good

“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

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

— Eleanor Roosevelt

Fear

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

— Eleanor Roosevelt

Education

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

— Eleanor Roosevelt

Work

“Actors are one family over the entire world.”

— Eleanor Roosevelt

Family

“With the new day comes new strength and new thoughts.”

— Eleanor Roosevelt

Motivational