“Human resources are the most valuable assets the world has. They are all needed desperately.”
Eleanor Roosevelt (verified)
Tomorrow is Now (Primary source)
Roosevelt’s final book, published posthumously in 1963, serving as her manifesto and battle cry for civil rights—a bold call for America to overcome fear, complacency, and national arrogance to embrace true democracy, civil rights, and responsible global leadership.
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“Human resources are the most valuable assets the world has. They are all needed desperately. Certainly for the young person the discovery of his own unsuspected capacity is an exciting, a liberating experience.”
Eleanor Roosevelt (verified)
“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.”
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— Eleanor Roosevelt (verified)“Life was meant to be lived, and curiosity must be kept alive. One must never, for whatever reason, turn his back on life.”
— Eleanor Roosevelt (verified)“I have never felt that anything really mattered but the satisfaction of knowing that you stood for the things in which you believed, and had done the very best you could.”
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— Benjamin Franklin (verified)“The only person you are destined to become is the person you decide to be.”
— Ralph Waldo Emerson (unverified)“Experience keeps a dear school, yet fools will learn in no other.”
— Benjamin Franklin (verified)“A friend is a person with whom I may be sincere.”
— Ralph Waldo Emerson (verified)