What one has to do usually can be done. – Eleanor Roosevelt
Nobody can make you feel inferior without your consent. – Eleanor Roosevelt
You always admire what you really dont understand. – Eleanor Roosevelt
I have spent many years of my life in opposition and I like the role. – Eleanor Roosevelt
A woman is like a tea bag – you cant tell how strong she is until you put her in hot water. – Eleanor Roosevelt
Women are like teabags. We dont know our true strength until we are in hot water! – Eleanor Roosevelt
Never allow a person to tell you no who doesnt have the power to say yes. – Eleanor Roosevelt
It isnt enough to talk about peace. One must believe in it. And it isnt enough to believe in it. One must work at it. – Eleanor Roosevelt
You can never really live anyone elses life, not even your childs. The influence you exert is through your own life, and what youve become yourself. – Eleanor Roosevelt
Im so glad I never feel important, it does complicate life! – Eleanor Roosevelt
You gain strength, courage, and confidence by every experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face. You are able to say to yourself, I lived through this horror. I can take the next thing that comes along. – Eleanor Roosevelt
You cant move so fast that you try to change the mores faster than people can accept it. That doesnt mean you do nothing, but it means that you do the things that need to be done according to priority. – Eleanor Roosevelt
I think, at a childs birth, if a mother could ask a fairy godmother to endow it with the most useful gift, that gift should be curiosity. – Eleanor Roosevelt
Ones philosophy is not best expressed in words it is expressed in the choices one makes… and the choices we make are ultimately our responsibility. – Eleanor Roosevelt
Have convictions. Be friendly. Stick to your beliefs as they stick to theirs. Work as hard as they do. – Eleanor Roosevelt
The battle for the individual rights of women is one of long standing and none of us should countenance anything which undermines it. – Eleanor Roosevelt
Anyone who thinks must think of the next war as they would of suicide. – Eleanor Roosevelt
Sometimes I wonder if we shall ever grow up in our politics and say definite things which mean something, or whether we shall always go on using generalities to which everyone can subscribe, and which mean very little. – Eleanor Roosevelt
With the new day comes new strength and new thoughts. – Eleanor Roosevelt
I have spent many years of my life in opposition, and I rather like the role. – Eleanor Roosevelt
