Quotes by 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.'

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

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.

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

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

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

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

The battle for the individual rights of women is one of long standing and none of us should countenance anything which undermines it.

Too often the great decisions are originated and given form in bodies made up wholly of men, or so completely dominated by them that whatever of special value women have to offer is shunted aside without expression.

It isn't enough to talk about peace. One must believe in it. And it isn't enough to believe in it. One must work at it.