“When you cease to make a contribution, you begin to die.”
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.”
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“I will not be triumphed over.”
— Cleopatra (unverified)“If you know that this life is all that you have, wouldn’t you make the most of it?”
— Ayn Rand (unverified)“Money and good manners make the gentleman.”
— Benjamin Franklin (verified)“It is important to make a dream of life and a dream reality.”
— Marie Curie (unverified)