“I think that somehow, we learn who we really are and then live with that decision.”
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“One of the best ways of enslaving a people is to keep them from education… The second way of enslaving a people is to suppress the sources of information, not only by burning books, but by controlling all the other ways in which ideas are transmitted.”
— Eleanor Roosevelt Primary source“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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“What is the hardest task in the world? To think.”
— Ralph Waldo Emerson Primary source“Would you live with ease, do what you ought, and not what you please.”
— Benjamin Franklin Primary source“Experience keeps a dear school, yet fools will learn in no other.”
— Benjamin Franklin Primary source“All would live long, but none would be old.”
— Benjamin Franklin Primary source