“No one can make you feel inferior without your consent.”
Eleanor Roosevelt (unverified)
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 (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.”
— Eleanor Roosevelt (verified)More quotes by Eleanor Roosevelt →
“One can never consent to creep when one feels an impulse to soar.”
— Helen Keller (verified)“Friendship with oneself is all-important, because without it one cannot be friends with anyone else in the world.”
— Eleanor Roosevelt (unverified)“Anger is never without a reason, but seldom with a good one.”
— Benjamin Franklin (verified)“No gains without pains.”
— Benjamin Franklin (verified)