“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.”
Eleanor Roosevelt
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 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“Example is the best lesson there is.”
— Eleanor Roosevelt Primary source“It is not fair to ask of others what you are not willing to do yourself.”
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“Since then I never pay any attention to anything by experts. I calculate everything myself.”
— Richard Feynman Primary source“Well done is twice done.”
— Benjamin Franklin Primary source“Self-pity is our worst enemy and if we yield to it, we can never do anything good in the world.”
— Helen Keller Disputed“He who does not punish evil commands it to be done.”
— Leonardo da Vinci Primary source