“It is not fair to ask of others what you are not willing to do yourself.”
Eleanor Roosevelt (verified)
My Day (Primary source)
Collections of Roosevelt’s syndicated newspaper column written six days weekly from 1935-1962, offering accessible, diary-like observations on daily life, politics, civil rights, and current events that reached millions of American readers.
“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 (verified)“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 (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)“Human resources are the most valuable assets the world has. They are all needed desperately.”
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“When you’re good to others, you are best to yourself.”
— Benjamin Franklin (verified)“Nothing can bring you peace but yourself. Nothing can bring you peace but the triumph of principles.”
— Ralph Waldo Emerson (verified)“The proud hate pride—in others.”
— Benjamin Franklin (verified)“Do not do that which you would not have known.”
— Benjamin Franklin (verified)