First Lady Quotes

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

  Jackie Kennedy

  Mother, Wife, Lovely

  68 Copy quote

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

  Nancy Reagan

  Losing, Hopeless, Bleak

  66 Copy quote

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

  Lady Bird Johnson

  Husband, Politics, Firsts

  24 Copy quote
• 

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

  Abigail Adams

  Inspirational, Education, Perseverance

  135 Copy quote

• 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

  96 Copy quote
• 

  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

  246 Copy quote

  Show source
• 

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

  Eleanor Roosevelt

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

  1576 Copy quote
• 

  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.

  202 Copy quote

  Show source

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

  Nancy Reagan

  Inspirational, Giving, Optimism

  138 Copy quote

• 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.

  253 Copy quote

  Show source

• 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)

  21 Copy quote

  Show source

• 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

  6 Copy quote

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

  Hillary Clinton

  Children, People, Depends

  4 Copy quote
• 

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

  Dolley Madison

  People, Gossip, Rumor

  61 Copy quote

• 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.

  96 Copy quote

  Show source

• 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

  101 Copy quote
• 

  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

  176 Copy quote

• 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

  26 Copy quote

• 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.

  326 Copy quote

  Show source

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

  Pat Nixon

  Jobs, World, Firsts

  20 Copy quote

• 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.

  19 Copy quote

  Show source

• 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.

  18 Copy quote

  Show source

• 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

  57 Copy quote

• 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

  30 Copy quote

• 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.

  16 Copy quote

  Show source