Eleanor Roosevelt
Eleanor Roosevelt
Anna Eleanor Rooseveltwas 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. Roosevelt's four terms in office, and served as United States Delegate to the United Nations General Assembly from 1945 to 1952. President Harry S. Truman later called her the "First Lady of the World" in tribute to her human rights achievements...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionPolitical Wife
Date of Birth11 October 1884
CityNew York City, NY
CountryUnited States of America
I believe that anyone can conquer fear by doing the things he fears to do ...
It is not fair to ask of others what you are not willing to do yourself.
Work is always an antidote to depression.
Courage is exhilarating.
Character building begins in our infancy and continues until death.
I'm so glad I never feel important, it does complicate life!
We have to face the fact that either all of us are going to die together or we are going to learn to live together, and if we are to live together we have to talk.
To be a citizen in a democracy, a human being must be given a healthy start.
It seems to me of great importance to teach children respect for life. Towards this end, experiments on living animals in classrooms should be stopped. To encourage cruelty in the name of science can only destroy the finer emotions of affection and sympathy, and breed an unfeeling callousness in the young towards suffering in all living creatures.
Lest I keep my complacent way I must remember somewhere out there a person died for me today. As long as there must be war, I ask and I must answer was I worth dying for?
I have never felt that anything really mattered but knowing that you stood for the things in which you believed and had done the very best you could.
With the new day comes new strength and new thoughts.
Women are like teabags. We don't know our true strength until we are in hot water!
Do the things that interest you and do them with all your heart. Don't be concerned about whether people are watching you or criticizing you. The chances are that they aren't paying any attention to you. It's your attention to yourself that is so stultifying. But you have to disregard yourself as completely as possible. If you fail the first time then you'll just have to try harder the second time. After all, there's no real reason why you should fail. Just stop thinking about yourself.