Skip to content
QuoteQuest

“Do what you feel in your heart to be right — for you'll be criticized anyway. You'll be "damned if you do, and damned if you don't."”

— Eleanor Roosevelt

Verification

Attributed

Recorded by a reliable secondary source; exact wording may differ.

Imported from Wikiquote; not yet checked by QuoteQuest against the original source.

Source

Title
Wikiquote: Eleanor Roosevelt
Type
reference · Secondary source
Held by
Wikiquote
View source at Wikiquote

Context

As quoted in How to Stop Worrying and Start Living (1944; 1948) by Dale Carnegie; though Roosevelt has sometimes been credited with the originating the expression, "Damned if you do and damned if you don't" is set in quote marks, indicating she herself was quoting a common expression in saying this.

Cite this source

Roosevelt, Eleanor. (n.d.). Wikiquote: Eleanor Roosevelt. Wikiquote. https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Eleanor_Roosevelt

Check citations against your institution's style guide; some details may be missing.

Provenance: Wikiquote (CC BY-SA)