Eleanor Roosevelt Quotes

Eleanor Roosevelt (Diplomat and activist, 1884 – 1962). Below are 15 quotes by Eleanor Roosevelt from QuotePlace, each as a beautiful quote card.

Diplomat and activist · 1884 – 1962

Eleanor Roosevelt was the longest-serving First Lady of the United States, from 1933 to 1945, and reinvented the role as a platform for civil rights and social reform. Afterward she became a US delegate to the United Nations and chaired the commission that drafted the Universal Declaration of Human Rights.

Quotes by Eleanor Roosevelt

1.You gain strength, courage, and confidence by every experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face.

2.You must do the thing you think you cannot do.

3.No one can make you feel inferior without your consent.

4.The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams.

5.I think somehow we learn who we really are and then live with that decision.

6.Friendship with oneself is all important because without it one cannot be friends with anybody else in the world.

7.Remember always that you not only have the right to be an individual, you have an obligation to be one.

8.People grow through experience if they meet life honestly and courageously. This is how character is built.

9.It is not fair to ask of others what you are unwilling to do yourself.

10.You must do the things you think you cannot do.

11.A woman is like a tea bag; you never know how strong it is until it's in hot water.

12.With the new day comes new strength and new thoughts.

13.Do what you feel in your heart to be right — for you'll be criticized anyway.

14.Do what you feel in your heart to be right – for you'll be criticized anyway.

15.Happiness is not a goal; it is a by-product.

Eleanor Roosevelt Quote Gallery

You gain strength, courage, and confidence by every experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face.