Quotes by
Eleanor Roosevelt |
1884-1962 , Wife of the 32nd USA president
American first lady (1933–45), the wife of Franklin D. Roosevelt, 32nd president of the United States, and a United Nations diplomat and humanitarian. She was, in her time, one of the world’s most widely admired and powerful women. | 31 quotes | 3,103 visits |
Quotations
| • | 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. 13 |
| • | If someone betrays you once, it’s their fault; if they betray you twice, it’s your fault. 13 |
| • | Women are like tea bags. You never know how strong they are until you put them in hot water. 12 |
| • | Great minds discuss ideas, average minds discuss events, small minds discuss people. 10 |
| • | No one won the last war, and no one will win the next war. (last war, then, was WW I) 9 |
| • | Learn from the mistakes of others. You can't live long enough to make them all yourself. 8 |
| • | What could we accomplish if we knew we could not fail? 8 |
| • | Of course, I do not believe in having everyone who is a liberal called a communist, or everyone who is conservative called a fascist. 8 |
| • | A stumbling block to the pessimist is a stepping-stone to the optimist. 7 |
| • | You gain strength, courage and confidence by every experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face. 6 |
| • | Life is what you make it. Always has been, always will be. 6 |
| • | No one can make you feel inferior without your consent. 5 |
| • | Yesterday is history, tomorrow is a mystery, and today is a gift... that's why they call it the present. 5 |
| • | Never allow a person to tell you “no” who doesn't have the power to say “yes”. 5 |
| • | Today is the oldest you've ever been, and the youngest you'll ever be again. 5 |
| • | You wouldn't worry so much about what others think of you if you realized how seldom they do. 5 |
| • | The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams. 4 |
| • | Do one thing every day that scares you. 4 |
| • | Beautiful young people are accidents of nature, but beautiful old people are works of art. 4 |
| • | Never mistake knowledge for wisdom. One helps you make a living; the other helps you make a life. 4 |
| • | Understanding is a two-way street. 3 |
| • | It takes courage to love, but pain through love is the purifying fire which those who love generously know. 3 |
| • | The future is literally in our hands to mold as we like. But we cannot wait until tomorrow. Tomorrow is now. 3 |
| • | 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. 2 |
| • | 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 would be curiosity. 2 |
| • | When you are genuinely interested in one thing, it will always lead to something else. 2 |
| • | One thing life has taught me: if you are interested, you never have to look for new interests. They come to you. 2 |
| • | If the use of leisure time is confined to looking at TV for a few extra hours every day, we will deteriorate as a people. 2 |
| • | To handle yourself, use your head; to handle others, use your heart. 2 |
| • | Life is like a parachute jump, you've got to get it right the first time. 2 |
| • | With the new day comes new strength and new thoughts. 2 |
