Quotes by Eleanor Roosevelt

Women are like teabags. We don’t know our true strength until we are in hot water!

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

Anyone who thinks must think of the next war as they would of suicide.

I can not believe that war is the best solution. No one won the last war, and no one will win the next war.

Campaign behavior for wives: Always be on time. Do as little talking as humanly possible. Lean back in the parade car so everybody can see the president.

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.’

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.

Never allow a person to tell you no who doesn’t have the power to say yes.

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.

Perhaps nature is our best assurance of immortality.