Eleanor Roosevelt (1884-1962)

Quotes

• A woman is like a tea bag- you never know how strong she is until she gets in hot water.

• Never be bored, and you will never be boring.

• If you lose money you lose much,
  If you lose friends you lose more,
  If you lose faith you lose all.

• Women are like teabags. You dont know how strong they are until you put them in hot water.

• Great minds discuss ideas. Average minds discuss events. Small minds discuss people.

• Campaign behavior for wives: Always be on time. Do as little talking as humanly possible. Lean back in the parade car so everybody can see the president.

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

• Do what you feel in your heart to be right- for you'll be criticized anyway. You'll be damned if you do, and damned if you don't.

• A little simplification would be the first step toward rational living, I think.

• Absence makes the heart grow fonder.

• I think, at a child's birth, if a mother could ask a fairy godmother to endow it with the most useful gift, that gift should be curiosity.

• Actors are one family over the entire world.

• Ambition is pitiless. Any merit that it cannot use it finds despicable.

• Justice cannot be for one side alone, but must be for both.

• Old age has deformities enough of its own. It should never add to them the deformity of vice.

• Life must be lived and curiosity kept alive. One must never, for whatever reason, turn his back on life.

• The giving of love is an education in itself.

• In the long run, we shape our lives and we shape ourselves. The process never ends until we die, and the choices that we make are ultimately our responsibility.

• You gain strength, experience and confidence by every experience where you really stop to look fear in the face. You must do the thing you cannot do.

• It is not fair to ask of others what you are not willing to do yourself.