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Eleanor Roosevelt Quotes (116 quotes)

“You must do the things you think you cannot do.”
―Eleanor Roosevelt

“Learn from the mistakes of others. You can't live long enough to make them all yourself.”
―Eleanor Roosevelt

“One of the best ways of enslaving a people is to keep them from education... The second way of enslaving a people is to suppress the sources of information, not only by burning books but by controlling all the other ways in which ideas are transmitted.”
―Eleanor Roosevelt

Source/Notes:
My Day (1935 - 1962)

“A mature person is one who does not think only in absolutes, who is able to be objective even when deeply stirred emotionally, who has learned that there is both good and bad in all people and in all things, and who walks humbly and deals charitably with the circumstances of life, knowing that in this world no one is all-knowing and therefore all of us need both love and charity.”
―Eleanor Roosevelt

“In the long run, we shape our lives, and we shape ourselves. The process never ends until we die. And the choices we make are ultimately our own responsibility.”
―Eleanor Roosevelt

Source/Notes:
You Learn by Living (1960 edition), Westminster John Knox Press - ISBN: 9780664244941

“The purpose of life, after all, is to live it, to taste experience to the utmost, to reach out eagerly and without fear for newer and richer experiences.”
―Eleanor Roosevelt

“I once had a rose named after me and I was very flattered. But I was not pleased to read the description in the catalogue: no good in a bed, but fine up against a wall.”
―Eleanor Roosevelt

“We gain strength, and courage, and confidence by each experience in which we really stop to look fear in the face... we must do that which we think we cannot.”
―Eleanor Roosevelt

“One of the blessings of age is to learn not to part on a note of sharpness, to treasure the moments spent with those we love, and to make them whenever possible good to remember, for time is short.”
―Eleanor Roosevelt

Source/Notes:
My Day (1935 - 1962)

“Anyone who thinks must think of the next war as they would of suicide.”
―Eleanor Roosevelt

“With the new day comes new strength and new thoughts.”
―Eleanor Roosevelt

“At all times, day by day, we have to continue fighting for freedom of religion, freedom of speech, and freedom from want — for these are things that must be gained in peace as well as in war.”
―Eleanor Roosevelt

Source/Notes:
My Day (1935 - 1962)

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Eleanor Roosevelt

Eleanor Roosevelt

Born: October 11, 1884

Died: November 7, 1962 (aged 78)

Nationality: American

Occupation: First Lady, politician

Bio: Anna Eleanor Roosevelt was the First Lady of the United States from 1933 to 1945. She supported the New Deal policies of her husband, distant cousin Franklin Delano Roosevelt, and became an advocate for civil rights. After her husband's death in 1945, Roosevelt continued to be an international author, speaker, politician, and activist for the New Deal coalition.

United States First ladies

Born on October 11

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