“The most important thing in any relationship is not what you get but what you give.”
Eleanor Roosevelt (verified)
The Autobiography of Eleanor Roosevelt (Primary source)
Eleanor’s comprehensive life story, from shy childhood to global human rights champion, chronicling her transformation during FDR’s presidency and her post-White House work, including her role in drafting the Universal Declaration of Human Rights.
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“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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“We may give advice, but we cannot give conduct.”
— Benjamin Franklin (verified)“Every thing impossible, until we see a success.”
— Ralph Waldo Emerson (verified)“He that can have patience can have what he will.”
— Benjamin Franklin (verified)“It is important to make a dream of life and a dream reality.”
— Marie Curie (unverified)