Quotes by First Ladies - Page 4

All of life is a constant education.
Eleanor Roosevelt
Learning is not attained by chance, it must be sought for with ardor and attended to with diligence.
Abigail Adams
Well, knowledge is a fine thing, and mother Eve thought so; but she smarted so severely for hers, that most of her daughters have been afraid of it since.
Abigail Adams
You can not live at all if you do not learn to adapt yourself to your life as it happens to be.
Eleanor Roosevelt
With the new day comes new strength and new thoughts.
Eleanor Roosevelt
Do one thing every day that scares you.
Eleanor Roosevelt
My bursting heart must find vent at my pen.
Abigail Adams
The reason that fiction is more interesting than any other form of literature, to those who really like to study people, is that in fiction the author can really tell the truth without humiliating himself.
Eleanor Roosevelt
I believe that more people would be alive today if there were a death penalty.
Nancy Reagan
I've learned from experience that the greater part of our happiness or misery depends on our disposition and not on our circumstances.
Martha Washington
The greater part of our happiness or misery depends upon our dispositions, and not upon our circumstances.
Martha Washington
There are many little ways to enlarge your child’s world. Love of books is the best of all.
Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis
Its never to late to get back on your feet though we wont live forever make sure you accomplish what you were put here for
Abigail Adams
Once I had a rose named after me and I was very flattered. But I was not pleased to read the description in the catalogue: "No good in a bed, but fine up against a wall.
Eleanor Roosevelt
Today is the oldest you've ever been, and the youngest you'll ever be again.
Eleanor Roosevelt
I have never felt that anything really mattered but knowing that you stood for the things in which you believed and had done the very best you could.
Eleanor Roosevelt
I am still determined to be cheerful and happy, in whatever situation I may be; for I have also learned from experience that the greater part of our happiness or misery depends upon our dispositions, and not upon our circumstances. a
Martha Washington
Light a candle instead of cursing the darkness.
Eleanor Roosevelt
It's your life-but only if you make it so.
Eleanor Roosevelt
Friendship with oneself is all important, because without it one cannot be friends with anyone else in the world.
Eleanor Roosevelt
Do not stop thinking of life as an adventure. You have no security unless you can live bravely, excitingly, imaginatively; unless you can choose a challenge instead of competence.
Eleanor Roosevelt
No matter how plain a woman may be, if truth and honesty are written across her face, she will be beautiful.
Eleanor Roosevelt
The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams.
Eleanor Roosevelt
Do what you feel in your heart to be right – for you’ll be criticized anyway.
Eleanor Roosevelt
No one can make you feel inferior without your consent.
Eleanor Roosevelt
Never allow a person to tell you no who doesn't have the power to say yes.
Eleanor Roosevelt
Life was meant to be lived, and curiosity must be kept alive. One must never, for whatever reason, turn his back on life.
Eleanor Roosevelt
Happiness is not a goal...it's a by-product of a life well lived.
Eleanor Roosevelt
The purpose of life is to live it, to taste experience to the utmost, to reach out eagerly and without fear for newer and richer experience.
Eleanor Roosevelt
It takes courage to love, but pain through love is the purifying fire which those who love generously know. We all know people who are so much afraid of pain that they shut themselves up like clams in a shell and, giving out nothing, receive nothing and therefore shrink until life is a mere living death.
Eleanor Roosevelt