Anna Eleanor Roosevelt was the longest-serving First Lady of the United States. She hold the post from 1933 to 1945 during her husband Franklin D. Roosevelt's four terms in office. She was later nicknamed as the "First Lady of the World" in tribute to her human rights achievements by Truman. Though widely respected in her later years, Roosevelt was a controversial First Lady for her outspokenness.
“No one can make you feel inferior without your consent.” this remained as the most famous quote by her.
Eleanor Roosevelt Quotes:
“A woman is like a tea bag; you never know how strong it is until it's in hot water.”
― Eleanor Roosevelt
“Yesterday is history, tomorrow is a mystery, today is a gift of God, which is why we call it the present.”
― Bil Keane
“Do one thing every day that scares you.”
― Eleanor Roosevelt
“Well-behaved women seldom make history.”
― Laurel Thatcher Ulrich, Well-Behaved Women Seldom Make History
“Do what you feel in your heart to be right – for you’ll be criticized anyway.”
― Eleanor Roosevelt
“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 have lived through this horror. I can take the next thing that comes along.' You must do the thing you think you cannot do.”
― Eleanor Roosevelt, You Learn by Living: Eleven Keys for a More Fulfilling Life
“You wouldn't worry so much about what others think of you if you realized how seldom they do.”
― Eleanor Roosevelt
“The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams.”
― Eleanor Roosevelt
“It takes courage to love, but pain through love is the purifying fire which those who love generously know. We all know people who are so much afraid of pain that they shut themselves up like clams in a shell and, giving out nothing, receive nothing and therefore shrink until life is a mere living death.”
― Eleanor Roosevelt
“Many people will walk in and out of your life, but only true friends will leave footprints in your heart”
― Eleanor Roosevelt
“We are afraid to care too much, for fear that the other person does not care at all.”
― Eleanor Roosevelt
“Learn from the mistakes of others. You can’t live long enough to make them all yourself. ”
― Eleanor Roosevelt
“The purpose of life is to live it, to taste experience to the utmost, to reach out eagerly and without fear for newer and richer experience.”
― Eleanor Roosevelt
“No matter how plain a woman may be, if truth and honesty are written across her face, she will be beautiful.”
― Eleanor Roosevelt
“You can often change your circumstances by changing your attitude”
― Eleanor Roosevelt
“If someone betrays you once, it’s their fault; if they betray you twice, it’s your fault.”
― Eleanor Roosevelt
“Beautiful young people are accidents of nature, but beautiful old people are works of art. ”
― Eleanor Roosevelt
“The reason that fiction is more interesting than any other form of literature, to those who really like to study people, is that in fiction the author can really tell the truth without humiliating himself.”
― Eleanor Roosevelt
