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
Nothing we learn in this world is ever wasted.
We face the future fortified with the lessons we have learned from the past. It is today that we must create the world of the future.
All the water in the world cannot drown you unless it gets inside of you.
Each generation supposes that the world was simpler for the one before it.
It is today that we create the world of the future.
Our obligation to the world is, primarily, our obligation to our own future. Obviously, we cannot develop beyond a certain point unless other nations develop, too.
What we apparently have failed to grasp is that, in this new world in which we live, the collective hunger of great masses of people, wherever they may be, will affect our long-range welfare, just as though they were our own people.
We will never have peace without friendship around the world.
The mobilization of world opinion and methods of negotiation should be developed and used by every nation in order to strengthen the United Nations.
I learned then that practically no one in the world is entirely bad or entirely good, and that motives are often more important than actions.
Some people are going to leave a mark on this world, while others will leave a stain.
After the discovery in 1918 of love letters revealing that Franklin was involved with Lucy Mercer: The bottom dropped out of my own particular world, I faced myself, my surroundings, my world, honestly for the first time.
A trait no other nation seems to possess in quite the same degree as we do namely, a feeling of almost childish injury and resentment unless the world as a whole recognizes how innocent we are of anything but the most generous and harmless intentions
The world conspires to help those who are in love with the beauty of their dreams.