721 Quotes by Eleanor Roosevelt

A woman is like a tea bag - you can't tell how strong she is until you put her in hot water.

Pat was a different person. She asked about the children in the hospital, the food, their medical care, education. I liked her very much. She was always what I expected a president's wife to be. She was really down to earth, good to everyone in the Embassy, all the staff.

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.

Every age is an unknown country.

It is better to light one small candle than to curse the darkness.

the greatest luxury I know is sitting up reading in bed.

Great minds discuss ideas; average minds discuss events; small minds discuss people.

Of all the nations in the Western world, the United States, with the most money and the most time, has the fewest readers of books per capita. This is an incalculable loss. This, too, is one of the few civilized nations in the world which is unable to support a single magazine devoted solely to books.

Someone once asked me what I regarded as the three most important requirements for happiness. My answer was: A feeling that you have been honest with yourself and those around you; a feeling that you have done the best you could both in your personal life and in your work; and the ability to love others.