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
Eleanor Roosevelt quotes about
Probably the happiest period in life most frequently is in middle age, when the eager passions of youth are cooled, and the infirmities of age not yet begun; as we see that the shadows, which are at morning and evening so large, almost entirely disappear at midday.
Every time you meet a situation you think at the time it is an impossibility and you go through the tortures of the damned, once you have met it and lived through it, you find that forever after you are freer than you were before.
What could we accomplish if we knew we could not fail?
Life is what you make it. Always has been, always will be.
You can often change your circumstances by changing your attitude
I believe that anyone can conquer fear by doing the things he fears to do ...
Hate and force cannot be in just a part of the world without having an effect on the rest of it.
It is not more vacation we need - it is more vocation.
I can not believe that war is the best solution. No one won the last war, and no one will win the next war.
As for accomplishments, I just did what I had to do as things came along.
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.
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.
Justice cannot be for one side alone, but must be for both.
Strength that goes wrong is even more dangerous than weakness that goes wrong.