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Eleanor Roosevelt Quotes (116 quotes)

“Human resources are the most valuable assets the world has. They are all needed desperately.”
―Eleanor Roosevelt

Source/Notes:
Tomorrow Is Now (1963)

“There never has been security. No man has ever known what he would meet around the next corner; if life were predictable it would cease to be life, and be without flavor.”
―Eleanor Roosevelt

Source/Notes:
Tomorrow Is Now (1963)

“What we must learn to do is to create unbreakable bonds between the sciences and the humanities. We cannot procrastinate. The world of the future is in our making. Tomorrow is now.”
―Eleanor Roosevelt

Source/Notes:
Tomorrow Is Now (1963)

“Example is the best lesson there is.”
―Eleanor Roosevelt

Source/Notes:
Tomorrow Is Now (1963)

“I could not at any age be content to take my place in a corner by the fireside and simply look on.”
―Eleanor Roosevelt

“One thing life has taught me: if you are interested, you never have to look for new interests. They come to you. When you are genuinely interested in one thing, it will always lead to something else.”
―Eleanor Roosevelt

“A woman will always have to be better than a man in any job she undertakes.”
―Eleanor Roosevelt

Source/Notes:
My Day (newspaper column), 29 November 1945

“All of us in this country give lip service to the ideals set forth in the Bill of Rights and emphasized by every additional amendment, and yet when war is stirring in the world, many of us are ready to curtail our civil liberties. We do not stop to think that curtailing these liberties may in the end bring us a greater danger than the danger we are trying to avert.”
―Eleanor Roosevelt

Source/Notes:
Cosmopolitan, February 1940

“You will find that [as the First Lady] you are no longer clothing yourself, you are dressing a public monument.”
―Eleanor Roosevelt

Source/Notes:
N.Y. Herald Tribune, 27 October 1960

“We need our radicals.”
―Eleanor Roosevelt

“Character building begins in our infancy, and continues until death.”
―Eleanor Roosevelt

“I believe that all that we go through here must have some value.”
―Eleanor Roosevelt

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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.

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