#elf

You can never really live anyone else's life, not even your child's. The influence you exert is through your own life, and what you've become yourself. ↗

— Eleanor Roosevelt

#become #child #else #even #exert

Friendship with ones self is all important, because without it one cannot be friends with anyone else in the world. ↗

— Eleanor Roosevelt

#because #cannot #else #friends #friendship

It is not fair to ask of others what you are not willing to do yourself. ↗

— Eleanor Roosevelt

#fair #not fair #others #willing #you

My experience has been that work is almost the best way to pull oneself out of the depths. ↗

— Eleanor Roosevelt

#been #best #best way #depths #experience

Confidence... thrives on honesty, on honor, on the sacredness of obligations, on faithful protection and on unselfish performance. Without them it cannot live. ↗

— Franklin D. Roosevelt

#confidence #faithful #honesty #honor #live

A nation that destroys its soils destroys itself. Forests are the lungs of our land, purifying the air and giving fresh strength to our people. ↗

— Franklin D. Roosevelt

#destroys #forests #fresh #giving #itself

The only thing we have to fear is fear itself. ↗

— Franklin D. Roosevelt

#itself #only #the only thing #thing

Selfishness is the only real atheism; aspiration, unselfishness, the only real religion. ↗

— Franklin D. Roosevelt

#atheism #only #real #real religion #religion

The United States Constitution has proved itself the most marvelously elastic compilation of rules of government ever written. ↗