“No one can make you feel inferior without your consent.”
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.
“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“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“Example is the best lesson there is.”
— Eleanor Roosevelt Primary source“The most important thing in any relationship is not what you get but what you give.”
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“The only way to have a friend is to be one.”
— Ralph Waldo Emerson Primary source“Friendship with oneself is all-important, because without it one cannot be friends with anyone else in the world.”
— Eleanor Roosevelt Disputed“Without justice courage is weak.”
— Benjamin Franklin Primary source“For what are we born if not to aid one another?”
— Ernest Hemingway Primary source