“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
This quote is commonly attributed to Eleanor Roosevelt, but I have not been able to locate a primary source. Use with caution in academic or professional contexts.
“There never has been security. No man has ever known what he would meet around the next corner; if life were predictable it would cease to be life, and be without flavor.”
— Eleanor Roosevelt Primary source“If the use of leisure time is confined to looking at TV for a few extra hours every day, we will deteriorate as a people.”
— Eleanor Roosevelt Primary source“Example is the best lesson there is.”
— Eleanor Roosevelt Primary source“It is not fair to ask of others what you are not willing to do yourself.”
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“Don’t misinform your doctor nor your lawyer.”
— Benjamin Franklin Primary source“Why, darling, I don’t live at all when I’m not with you.”
— Ernest Hemingway Primary source“You don’t need to take the last dollar.”
— Charlie Munger Primary source“Love your neighbor; yet don’t pull down your hedge.”
— Benjamin Franklin Primary source