You Learn by Living: Eleven Keys for a More Fulfilling Life

by Eleanor Roosevelt

To respect one’s fellow men is perhaps more difficult than to “love” them in a wide, vague sense. In fact, it is possible that to feel respect for mankind is better than to feel love for it. Love can often be misguided and do as much harm as good, but respect can do only good. It assumes that the other person’s stature is as large as one’s own, his rights as reasonable, his needs as important.

Success must include two things: the development of an individual to his utmost potentiality and a contribution of some kind to one’s world.

No man is defeated without until he has first been defeated within.