Eleanor Roosevelt Quotes

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Eleanor Roosevelt

Profession : First Lady

Birth : October 11, 1884

The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams.

Eleanor Roosevelt

To handle yourself, use your head; to handle others, use your heart.

Eleanor Roosevelt

No one can make you feel inferior without your consent.

Eleanor Roosevelt

Do one thing every day that scares you.

Eleanor Roosevelt

I think somehow we learn who we really are and then live with that decision.

Eleanor Roosevelt

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

Eleanor Roosevelt

With the new day comes new strength and new thoughts.

Eleanor Roosevelt

The mother of a family should look upon her housekeeping and the planning of meals as a scientific occupation.

Eleanor Roosevelt

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

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.'

Eleanor Roosevelt

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.

Eleanor Roosevelt

Perhaps nature is our best assurance of immortality.

Eleanor Roosevelt

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

Eleanor Roosevelt

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

Eleanor Roosevelt

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.

Eleanor Roosevelt

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

Eleanor Roosevelt

A woman is like a tea bag - you can't tell how strong she is until you put her in hot water.

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

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.

Eleanor Roosevelt

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.

Eleanor Roosevelt