First Lady Quotes

I'll be a wife and mother first, then First Lady.

Jackie Kennedy

Mother, Wife, Lovely

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Dont ever lose hope. Even when life seems bleak and hopeless, know that you are not alone.

Nancy Reagan

Losing, Hopeless, Bleak

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The first lady is, and always has been, an unpaid public servant elected by one person, her husband.

Lady Bird Johnson

Husband, Politics, Firsts

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Learning is not attained by chance, it must be sought for with ardor and diligence.

Abigail Adams

Inspirational, Education, Perseverance

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Define success on your own terms, achieve it by your own rules, and build a life you're proud to live.

Anne Sweeney

Positive, Inspiring, Success

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No one can make you feel inferior without your consent.

Eleanor Roosevelt

Inspirational, Motivational, Happiness

Quoted in Vidette-Messenger (Valparaiso, Ind.), 7 June 1941 See Channing 1

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Great minds discuss ideas; average minds discuss events; small minds discuss people.

Eleanor Roosevelt

Inspirational, Life, Motivational

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We should all do something to right the wrongs that we see and not just complain about them.

Jackie Kennedy

Complaining, Should

"The Eloquent Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis : A Portrait in Her Own Words" by ill Adler, (p. 174), 2004.

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I am a big believer that eventually everything comes back to you. You get back what you give out.

Nancy Reagan

Inspirational, Giving, Optimism

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To my young friends out there: Life can be great, but not when you can't see it. So, open your eyes to life: to see it in the vivid colors that God gave us as a precious gift to His children, to enjoy life to the fullest, and to make it count. Say yes to your life.

Nancy Reagan

Inspirational, Life, God

"'Just Say No'". Address to the Nation, edition.cnn.com. September 14, 1986.

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The one thing I do not want to be called is First Lady. It sounds like a saddle horse.

Jackie Kennedy

Horse, History, Political

Quoted in Peter Collier and David Horowitz, The Kennedys (1984)

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No matter how different our First Ladies have been - and as individual women they have ranged from recluses to vibrant hostesses to political manipulators on a par with Machiavelli - they have all shared the unnerving experience of facing a job they did not choose.

Margaret Truman Daniel

Jobs, Political, Different

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Our global future depends on the willingness of every nation to invest in its people, especially women and children.

Hillary Clinton

Children, People, Depends

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It is one of my sources of happiness never to desire a knowledge of other people's business.

Dolley Madison

People, Gossip, Rumor

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There's a big, wonderful world out there for you. It belongs to you. It's exciting and stimulating and rewarding. Don't cheat yourselves out of this promise.

Nancy Reagan

Promise, World, Wonderful

"'Just Say No'". Address to the Nation, edition.cnn.com. September 14, 1986.

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When you 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.'

Eleanor Roosevelt

Strong Women, Courage, Fear

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

Eleanor Roosevelt

Inspirational, Funny, Strength

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Never dress down for the poor. They won't respect you for it. They want their First Lady to look like a million dollars.

Imelda Marcos

Respect, Dresses, Dollars

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You learn something out of everything, and you come to realize more than ever that we're all here for a certain space of time, and, and then it's going to be over, and you better make this count.

Nancy Reagan

Life, Appreciation, Time

"Diane Sawyer Talks With Nancy Reagan". Interview with Diane Sawyer, abcnews.go.com. June 28.

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Being first lady is the hardest unpaid job in the world.

Pat Nixon

Jobs, World, Firsts

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I see the first lady as another means to keep a president from becoming isolated.

Nancy Reagan

Mean, President, Firsts

"Nancy Reagan is dead at 94" by Maxwell Tani, www.businessinsider.com. March 6, 2016.

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I am First Lady by accident. I was not elected by the people but here I am.

Imelda Marcos

Here I Am, People, Firsts

"Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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The memory of that scene for me is like a frame of film forever frozen at that moment: the red carpet, the green lawn, the white house, the leaden sky. The new president and his first lady.

Richard M. Nixon

Memories, Sky, White

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Happy birthday to former First Lady Barbara Bush, who turned seventy-seven this week. Unfortunately, where her granddaughters helped blow out the candles on her cake, it exploded.

Craig Kilborn

Blow, Cake, Granddaughter

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That business we started with 10 people has now grown into a great American success story. Some of the companies we helped start are names you know. An office supply company called Staples – where I’m pleased to see the Obama campaign has been shopping; The Sports Authority, which became a favorite of my sons. We started an early childhood learning center called Bright Horizons that First Lady Michelle Obama rightly praised. At a time when nobody thought we’d ever see a new steel mill built in America, we took a chance and built one in a corn field in Indiana.

Mitt Romney

Sports, Son, Names

Speeches at the 2012 Republican National Convention in Tampa FL, www.washingtonpost.com. August 30, 2012.

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