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 have spent many years of my life in opposition, and I rather like the role.
Do not stop thinking of life as an adventure. You have no security unless you can live bravely, excitingly, imaginatively; unless you can choose a challenge instead of competence.
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.
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.
Courage is more exhilarating than fear, and in the long run, it is easier.
You gain strength, courage, and confidence by every experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face.... The danger lies in refusing to face the fear, in not daring to come to grips with it. If you fail anywhere along the line it will take away your confidence. You must make yourself succeed every time. You must do the thing you think you cannot do.
You must do the things you think you cannot do.
You wouldn't worry so much about what others think of you if you realized how seldom they do.
It is better to light a candle than curse the darkness.
We are afraid to care too much, for fear that the other person does not care at all.
Never allow a person to tell you no who doesn't have the power to say yes.
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.
Each generation supposes that the world was simpler for the one before it.
A stumbling block to the pessimist is a stepping-stone to the optimist.