Isabelle Cook

“Self-respect is not the same as self-confidence or self-esteem. Self-respect is not based on IQ or any of the mental or physical gifts that help get you into a competitive college. It is not comparative. It is not earned by being better than other people at something. It is earned by being better than you used to be, by being dependable in times of testing, straight in times of temptation. It emerges in one who is morally dependable. Self-respect is produced by inner triumphs, not external ones.”
― David Brooks, The Road to Character

“If asked, you should state how you feel, how you think. But until asked, it is an intrusion to thrust your ideas on any grown human being.”
― Eleanor Roosevelt, You Learn by Living: Eleven Keys for a More Fulfilling Life

“A teacher should start from a young person’s own present interest, she felt, and lead them into a wider and deeper understanding of the world into which they were going.”
― Joseph P. Lash, Eleanor and Franklin: The Story of Their Relationship, Based on Eleanor Roosevelt's Private Papers

“Take a bucket, fill it with water, Put your hand in—clear up to the wrist. Now pull it out; the hole that remains Is a measure of how much you’ll be missed…. The moral of this quaint example: To do just the best that you can, Be proud of yourself, but remember, There is no Indispensible Man!”
― Anonymous