Eleanor Roosevelt Strength Quotations

With the new day comes new strength and new thoughts.

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

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

Remember always that you not only have the right to be an individual, you have an obligation to be one.

Life must be lived and curiosity kept alive. One must never, for whatever reason, turn his back on life.

We must do that which we think we cannot.

You in the unions do not yet represent all of labor. But I hope some day you will, because I believe that it is through strength, through the fact that people who know what people need are working to make this country a better place for all people, that we will help the world to accept our leadership and understand that, under our form of government and through our way of life, we have something to offer them...

Courage is more exhilarating than fear and in the long run it is easier. We do not have to become heroes over night. Just a step at a time, meeting each thing that comes up, seeing it is not as dreadful as it appeared, discovering we have the strength to stare it down.

Strength that goes wrong is even more dangerous than weakness that goes wrong.

A woman is like a teabag, you never know how strong she is until she gets into hot water.