721 Quotes by Eleanor Roosevelt

We need our radicals.

Do the things that interest you and do them with all your heart.

As with all children, the feeling that I was useful was perhaps the greatest joy I experienced.

It is equality of monotony which makes the strength of the British Isles.

A good leader inspires people to have confidence in the leader, a great leader inspires people to have confidence in themselves.

You'll be damned if you do, and damned if you don't.

Choose a challenge instead of competence

It is a curious thing in human experience, but to live through a period of stress and sorrow with another person, creates a bond which nothing seems able to break.

...but there isn't going to be any First Lady. There is just to be plain, ordinary Mrs. Roosevelt...I never wanted to be the president's wife, and don't want it now. You don't quite believe me, do you? Very likely no one would-except possibly some woman who had had the job.