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Eleanor Roosevelt Biography
- Full Name : Anna Eleanor Roosevelt
- Born : October 11, 1884 (New York City, U.S.)
- Dead : November 7, 1962 (New York City, U.S.)
- Nationality : American
- Profession : First Lady of the United States 1933-1945
- Spouse : Franklin D. Roosevelt
- Children : Anna, James, Franklin, John and Elliott
Facts About Eleanor Roosevelt :
- Eleanor Roosevelt was a niece of President Theodore Roosevelt.
- Eleanor Roosevelt was orphaned at a young age. She having suffered the deaths of both parents.
- Eleanor Roosevelt wrote a syndicated newspaper column for 27 years.
- Eleanor Roosevelt earned 35 honorary degrees.
Eleanor Roosevelt Quotes
1. “ No one can make you feel inferior without your consent. ”
— Eleanor Roosevelt
2. “ It is better to light a candle than curse the darkness. ”
— Eleanor Roosevelt
3. “ The giving of love is an education in itself. ”
— Eleanor Roosevelt
4. “ The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams. ”
— Eleanor Roosevelt
5. “ Do the things that interest you and do them with all your heart. ”
— Eleanor Roosevelt
6. “ People grow through experience if they meet life honestly and courageously. This is how character is built. ”
— Eleanor Roosevelt
7. “ What you don’t do can be a destructive force. ”
— Eleanor Roosevelt
8. “ I am who I am today because of the choices I made yesterday. ”
— Eleanor Roosevelt
9. “ With the new day comes new strength and new thoughts. ”
— Eleanor Roosevelt
10. “ If someone betrays you once, it’s their fault; if they betray you twice, it’s your fault. ”
— Eleanor Roosevelt
11. “ It is not fair to ask of others what you are unwilling to do yourself. ”
— Eleanor Roosevelt
12. “ Learn from the mistakes of others. You can’t live long enough to make them all yourself. ”
— Eleanor Roosevelt
13. “ You can often change your circumstances by changing your attitude. ”
— Eleanor Roosevelt
14. “ Life was meant to be lived, and curiosity must be kept alive. One must never, for whatever reason, turn his back on life. ”
— Eleanor Roosevelt
15. “ The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams. ”
— Eleanor Roosevelt
16. “ Every woman wants to be first to someone sometime in her life and that desire is the explanation for many strange things women do. ”
— Eleanor Roosevelt
17. “ For it isn’t enough to talk of peace. One must believe it. And it isn’t enough to believe in it. One must work at it. ”
— Eleanor Roosevelt
18. “ I could not at any age be content to take my place in a corner by the fireside and simply look on.”
— Eleanor Roosevelt
19. “ To handle yourself, use your head; to handle others, use your heart. ”
— Eleanor Roosevelt
20. “ Life is what you make it. Always has been, always will be. ”
— Eleanor Roosevelt
21. “ A woman is like a tea bag – you can’t tell how strong she is until you put her in hot water. ”
— Eleanor Roosevelt
22. “ If man is to be liberated to enjoy more leisure, he must also be prepared to enjoy this leisure fully and creatively. ”
— Eleanor Roosevelt
23. “ What could we accomplish if we knew we could not fail? ”
— Eleanor Roosevelt
24. “ Never allow a person to tell you no who doesn’t have the power to say
yes. ”
— Eleanor Roosevelt
25. “ No one won the last war, and no one will win the next war. ”
— Eleanor Roosevelt
26. “ 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
27. “ Absence makes the heart grow fonder. ”
— Eleanor Roosevelt
28. “ You must do the thing you think you cannot do. ”
— Eleanor Roosevelt
29. “ Never mistake knowledge for wisdom. One helps you make a living; the other helps you make a life. ”
— Eleanor Roosevelt
30. “ 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
31. “ You wouldn’t worry so much about what others think of you if you realized how seldom they do.”
— Eleanor Roosevelt
32. “ If someone betrays you once, it’s their fault; if they betray you twice, it’s your fault. ”
— Eleanor Roosevelt
33. “ Life was meant to be lived, and curiosity must be kept alive. One must never, for whatever reason, turn his back on life. ”
— Eleanor Roosevelt
34. “ A woman is like a teabag – you never know how strong she is until she gets in hot water. ”
— Eleanor Roosevelt
35. “ Beautiful young people are accidents of nature, but beautiful old people are works of art. ”
— Eleanor Roosevelt
36. “ You gain strength, courage, and confidence by every experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face. ”
— Eleanor Roosevelt
37. “ We are afraid to care too much, for fear that the other person does not care at all. ”
— Eleanor Roosevelt
38. “ You must do the things you think you cannot do. ”
— Eleanor Roosevelt
39. “ Great minds discuss ideas; Average minds discuss events; Small minds discuss people. ”
— Eleanor Roosevelt
40. “ I could not, at any age, be content to take my place by the fireside and simply look on. Life was meant to be lived. Curiosity must be kept alive. One must never, for whatever reason, turn his back on life. ”
— Eleanor Roosevelt
41. “ Justice cannot be for one side alone, but must be for both. ”
— Eleanor Roosevelt
42. “ With the new day comes new strength and new thoughts. ”
— Eleanor Roosevelt
43. “ Will people ever be wise enough to refuse to follow bad leaders or to take away the freedom of other people? ”
— Eleanor Roosevelt
44. “ One thing life has taught me: if you are interested, you never have to look for new interests. They come to you. When you are genuinely interested in one thing, it will always lead to something else. ”
— Eleanor Roosevelt
45. “ I think that somehow, we learn who we really are and then live with that decision. ”
— Eleanor Roosevelt
46. “ It takes as much energy to wish as it does to plan. ”
— Eleanor Roosevelt
47. “ Friendship with oneself is all-important because without it one cannot be friends with anyone else in the world. ”
— Eleanor Roosevelt
48. “ Happiness is not a goal…it’s a by-product of a life well-lived. ”
— Eleanor Roosevelt
49. “ The only things one can admire at length are those one admires without knowing why. ”
— Eleanor Roosevelt
50. “ You always admire what you really don’t understand. ”
— Eleanor Roosevelt