“When you cease to make a contribution, you begin to die.”
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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“Grief too will make us idealists.”
— Ralph Waldo Emerson Primary source“Civilizations die from suicide, not by murder.”
— Arnold J. Toynbee Disputed“Money and good manners make the gentleman.”
— Benjamin Franklin Primary source“If you know that this life is all that you have, wouldn’t you make the most of it?”
— Ayn Rand Disputed