Quotes by First Ladies - Page 2

Become so wrapped up in something that you forget to be afraid.
Lady Bird Johnson
Learning is not attained by chance, it must be sought for with ardor and attended to with diligence.
Abigail Adams
No one can make you feel inferior without your consent.
Eleanor Roosevelt
Success must include two things: the development of an individual to his utmost potentiality and a contribution of some kind to one's world.
Eleanor Roosevelt
War is not nice.
Barbara Bush
Will people ever be wise enough to refuse to follow bad leaders or to take away the freedom of other people?
Eleanor Roosevelt
Inrealized how valuable the art and practice of writing letters are, and how important it is to remind people of what a treasure letters--handwritten letters--can be. In our throwaway era of quick phone calls, faxes, and email, it's all to easy never to find the time to write letters. That's a great pity--for historians and the rest of us.
Nancy Reagan
Do one thing every day that scares you.
Eleanor Roosevelt
Even though people may be well known, they hold in their hearts the emotions of a simple person for the moments that are the most important of those we know on earth: birth, marriage and death.
Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis
In the long run, we shape our lives, and we shape ourselves. The process never ends until we die. And the choices we make are ultimately our own responsibility.
Eleanor Roosevelt
Every time you meet a situation though you think at the time it is an impossibility and you go through the torture of the damned once you have met it and lived through it you find that forever after you are freer than you were before.
Eleanor Roosevelt
This I know. This I believe with all my heart. If we want a free and peaceful world if we want to make the deserts bloom and man grow to greater dignity as a human being-we can do it!
Eleanor Roosevelt
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
When you cease to make a contribution you begin to die.
Eleanor Roosevelt
More people are ruined by victory I imagine than by defeat.
Eleanor Roosevelt
Freedom makes a huge requirement of every human being. With freedom comes responsibility. For the person who is unwilling to grow up, the person who does not want to carry his own weight, this is a frightening prospect.
Eleanor Roosevelt
These are the times in which a genius would wish to live. It is not in the still calm of life, or the repose of a pacific station, that great characters are formed. The habits of a vigorous mind are formed in contending with difficulties. Great necessities call out great virtues. When a mind is raised, and animated by scenes that engage the heart, then those qualities which would otherwise lay dormant, wake into life and form the character of the hero and the statesman.
Abigail Adams
You have only one chance to raise your child.
Jackie Kennedy
Almsgiving leaves a man just where he was before. Aid restores him to society as an individual worthy of all respect and not as a man with a grievance.
Eva Peron
We have to make these young people (of the Depression) feel that they are necessary. (They should be given) "certain things for which youth craves – the chance for self-sacrifice for an ideal.
Eleanor Roosevelt
It is not in the still calm of life or the repose of a pacific station that great characters are formed. ... Great necessities call out great virtues.
Abigail Adams
I think it’s important that (Roe v. Wade) remain legal for medical reasons and other reasons.
Laura Bush
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 have lived through this horror. I can take the next thing that comes along.' You must do the thing you think you cannot do.
Eleanor Roosevelt
Today is the oldest you've ever been, and the youngest you'll ever be again.
Eleanor Roosevelt
If you bungle raising children, I don't think whatever else you do matters very much.
Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis
You don't just luck into things. ... You build step by step whether it's friendships or opportunities.
Barbara Bush
Change means the unknown.
Eleanor Roosevelt
To us family means putting your arms around each other and being there.
Barbara Bush
Steady as a clock busy as a bee and cheerful as a cricket.
Martha Washington
A woman is like a tea bag - only in hot water do you realize how strong she is.
Nancy Reagan
It takes as much energy to wish as it does to plan.
Eleanor Roosevelt
The habits of a vigorous mind are formed in contending with difficulties.
Abigail Adams
What could we accomplish if we knew we could not fail?
Eleanor Roosevelt
You have to accept whatever comes, and the only important thing is that you meet it with the best you have to give.
Eleanor Roosevelt
Libraries allow children to ask questions about the world and find the answers. And the wonderful thing is that once a child learns to use a library, the doors to learning are always open.
Laura Bush
Without fanaticism we cannot accomplish anything.
Eva Peron
When you get to the end of your rope tie a knot in it and hang on.
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
To be mature you have to realize what you value most... Not to arrive at a clear understanding of one's own values is a tragic waste. You have missed the whole point of what life is for.
Eleanor Roosevelt
If particular care and attention is not paid to the ladies, we are determined to foment a rebellion, and will not hold ourselves bound by any laws in which we have no voice or representation.
Abigail Adams
Perhaps no place in any community is so totally democratic as the town library. The only entrance requirement is interest.
Claudia Alta Johnson
I'm glad I never feel important it does complicate life.
Eleanor Roosevelt
You don't just luck into things ... you build step by step whether it's friendships or opportunities.
Barbara Bush
Anyone who thinks must think of the next war as they would of suicide.
Eleanor Roosevelt
These are times in which a genius would wish to live. It is not in the still calm of life, or the repose of a pacific station, that great characters are formed.
Abigail Adams
Lest I keep my complacent way I must remember somewhere out there a person died for me today. As long as there must be war, I ask and I must answer was I worth dying for?
Eleanor Roosevelt
Do not be afraid of mistakes providing you do not make the same one twice.
Eleanor Roosevelt
Remember always that you have not only the right to be an individual you have an obligation to be one.
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
Life has got to be lived - that's all there is to it. At seventy I would say the advantage is that you take life more calmly. You know that 'this too shall pass!'
Eleanor Roosevelt
I did NOT have three thousand pairs of shoes, I had one thousand and sixty.
Imelda Marcos
Never allow a person to tell you no who doesn't have the power to say yes.
Eleanor Roosevelt
I'm not a competitive person and I think women like me because they don't think I'm competitive just nice.
Barbara Bush
Whether you are talking about education career or service you are talking about life. And life must really have joy. It's supposed to be fun.
Barbara Bush
In the long run we shape our lives and we shape ourselves. The process never ends until we die. And the choices we make are ultimately our own responsibility.
Eleanor Roosevelt
You always admire what you really don't understand.
Eleanor Roosevelt
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
The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams.
Eleanor Roosevelt
What you don't do can be a destructive force.
Eleanor Roosevelt
Youth is after all just a moment but it is the moment the spark that you always carry in your heart.
Raisa M. Gorbachev