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
If anyone were to ask me what I want out of life I would say- the opportunity for doing something useful, for in no other way, I am convinced, can true happiness be attained.
No, I have never wanted to be a man. I have often wanted to be more effective as a woman, but I have never felt that trousers would do the trick!
It is our freedom to progress that makes us all want to live and to go on.
The economy of communism is an economy which grows in an atmosphere of misery and want.
Everybody wants something.
We must want for others, not ourselves alone.
I never waste time looking back.
Nothing we learn in this world is ever wasted.
I know that we will be the sufferers if we let great wrongs occur without exerting ourselves to correct them.
Anger is one letter short of danger.
If we want a free and peaceful world, if we want to make the deserts bloom and man grow to greater dignity as a human being - we can do it.
Happiness is not a goal, it is a by-product. Paradoxically, the one sure way not to be happy is deliberately to map out a way of life in which one would please oneself completely and exclusively.
It seems to me that it is the basic right of any human being to work.
The freedom of man, I contend, is the freedom to eat.