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Eleanor Roosevelt [1884-1962] American

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First Lady, Former First Lady of the United States

Anna Eleanor Roosevelt was an American politician, diplomat, and activist. She was the longest-serving First Lady of the United States, having held the post from March 1933 to April 1945 during her husband President Franklin D.

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Quote	Tags	Rank
The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams.	Beauty, Dreams, Future	14
With the new day comes new strength and new thoughts.	Motivational, Strength	101
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.'	Courage, Experience, Fear, Strength	102
A woman is like a tea bag - you can't tell how strong she is until you put her in hot water.	Women	104
Great minds discuss ideas; average minds discuss events; small minds discuss people.	Great	105
It is better to light a candle than curse the darkness.		106
You must do the things you think you cannot do.	Inspirational	107
We are afraid to care too much, for fear that the other person does not care at all.	Fear, Relationship	108
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.	Best, Wisdom	109
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.		110
People grow through experience if they meet life honestly and courageously. This is how character is built.	Experience, Life	111
No one can make you feel inferior without your consent.		112
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.	Best, Courage	113
It is not fair to ask of others what you are not willing to do yourself.		114
Only a man's character is the real criterion of worth.		115
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.	Age, Life, Morning	116
It isn't enough to talk about peace. One must believe in it. And it isn't enough to believe in it. One must work at it.	Peace, Work	117
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.	Birthday	118
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.	Change	119
Happiness is not a goal; it is a by-product.	Happiness	120
Friendship with ones self is all important, because without it one cannot be friends with anyone else in the world.	Friendship	121
Remember always that you not only have the right to be an individual, you have an obligation to be one.		122
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.		123
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.	Great, Men, Women	124
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.	Education, Faith, Government, History	125
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.	Good	126
The giving of love is an education in itself.	Education, Love	201
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 his own weight, this is a frightening prospect.	Freedom	202
Never allow a person to tell you no who doesn't have the power to say yes.	Power	203
If life were predictable it would cease to be life, and be without flavor.	Life	204
When will our consciences grow so tender that we will act to prevent human misery rather than avenge it?		205
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.	Happiness	206
I can not believe that war is the best solution. No one won the last war, and no one will win the next war.	Best, War	207
Have convictions. Be friendly. Stick to your beliefs as they stick to theirs. Work as hard as they do.	Work	208
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.	Experience, Fear	209
Justice cannot be for one side alone, but must be for both.	Alone	210
Old age has deformities enough of its own. It should never add to them the deformity of vice.	Age	211
A little simplification would be the first step toward rational living, I think.		212
It is not more vacation we need - it is more vocation.		213
There are practical little things in housekeeping which no man really understands.		214
Hate and force cannot be in just a part of the world without having an effect on the rest of it.		215
The battle for the individual rights of women is one of long standing and none of us should countenance anything which undermines it.	Women	216
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.		217
What you don't do can be a destructive force.		218
Anyone who thinks must think of the next war as they would of suicide.	War	219
I'm so glad I never feel important, it does complicate life!		220
In all our contacts it is probably the sense of being really needed and wanted which gives us the greatest satisfaction and creates the most lasting bond.		221
Perhaps nature is our best assurance of immortality.		222
I think I lived those years very impersonally. It was almost as though I had erected someone outside myself who was the president's wife. I was lost somewhere deep down inside myself. That is the way I felt and worked until I left the White House.		223
I used to tell my husband that, if he could make me 'understand' something, it would be clear to all the other people in the country.		224
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.		225
My experience has been that work is almost the best way to pull oneself out of the depths.	Experience, Work	226
Ambition is pitiless. Any merit that it cannot use it finds despicable.		301
When you cease to make a contribution, you begin to die.		302
Understanding is a two-way street.		303
It takes as much energy to wish as it does to plan.		304
The only things one can admire at length are those one admires without knowing why.		305
Life must be lived and curiosity kept alive. One must never, for whatever reason, turn his back on life.		306
The Bible illustrated by Dore occupied many of my hours - and I think probably gave me many nightmares.		307
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.	Life	308
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.	Car	309
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.	Politics	310
As for accomplishments, I just did what I had to do as things came along.		311
What one has to do usually can be done.		312
I think that somehow, we learn who we really are and then live with that decision.		313
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.		314
Actors are one family over the entire world.		315
I have spent many years of my life in opposition, and I rather like the role.		316
I do not think that I am a natural born mother... If I ever wanted to mother anyone, it was my father.		317
The mother of a family should look upon her housekeeping and the planning of meals as a scientific occupation.		318

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