First Lady Quotes

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

  Jackie Kennedy

  Mother, Wife, Lovely

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

  Eleanor Roosevelt

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

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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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• 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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  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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• 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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• The search for human freedom can never be complete without freedom for women.

  Betty Ford

  Humans, Human Freedom

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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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• The greatest advantage of being First Lady is the opportunity it presents to truly make a difference on issues of great importance.

  Ann Romney

  Opportunity, Differences, Issues

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• ...but there isn't going to be any First Lady. There is just to be plain, ordinary Mrs. Roosevelt...I never wanted to be the president's wife, and don't want it now. You don't quite believe me, do you? Very likely no one would-except possibly some woman who had had the job.

  Eleanor Roosevelt

  Jobs, Believe, Wife

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

  Pat Nixon

  Jobs, World, Firsts

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• Although the circumstances of our lives may seem very disengaged, with me standing here as the First Lady of the United States of America and you just getting through school, I want you to know we have very much in common. For nothing in my life ever would have predicted that I would be standing here as the first African-American First Lady.

  Michelle Obama

  School, America, United States

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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 don't feel that because I'm First Lady, I'm very different from what I was before. It can happen to anyone. After all, it has happened to anyone.

  Betty Ford

  Different, Firsts, Feels

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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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• I think the major role of the First Lady is to take care of the President so that he can best serve the people. And not to fail her family, her husband, and children.

  Jackie Kennedy

  Children, Husband, Thinking

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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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• Any lady who is first lady likes being first lady. I don't care what they say, they like it.

  Richard M. Nixon

  Care, Likes, Firsts

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• You may not always have a comfortable life and you will not always be able to solve all of the world's problems at once but don't ever underestimate the importance you can have because history has shown us that courage can be contagious and hope can take on a life of its own.

  Michelle Obama

  Positive, Graduation, Hope

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