Eleanor Roosevelt Quotes About Understanding

Quotes about: Understanding

• Your ambition should be to get as much life out of living as you possibly can, as much enjoyment, as much interest, as much experience, as much understanding. Not simply be what is generally called a 'success.'

  Eleanor Roosevelt

  Ambition, Understanding, Should

  Eleanor Roosevelt (1960). “You Learn by Living”, p.118, Westminster John Knox Press

• Understanding is a two-way street.

  Eleanor Roosevelt

  Inspirational, Two, Understanding

• Anyone who has gone through great suffering is bound to have a greater sympathy and understanding of the problems of mankind.

  Eleanor Roosevelt

  Helping Others, Understanding, Suffering

• To be mature you have to realize what you value most... Not to arrive at a clear understanding of one's own values is a tragic waste. You have missed the whole point of what life is for.

  Eleanor Roosevelt

  Understanding, Waste, Realizing

• Franklin [D. Roosevelt] had a good way of simplifying things. He made people feel that he had a real understanding of things and they felt they had about the same understanding.

  Eleanor Roosevelt

  Real, People, Understanding

• How can we be such fools as to go on senselessly taking human life in this way? Why the women in every nation do not rise up and refuse to bring children into a world of this kind is beyond my understanding.

  Eleanor Roosevelt

  Children, Understanding, Goes On

• I do not think I will ever become deadened, because I live in other people's lives, I must admit there are times when it weighs medown because I can't do some of the things I want.

  Eleanor Roosevelt

  Thinking, People, Empathy

  Joseph P. Lash, Eleanor Roosevelt (1984). “A World of Love: Eleanor Roosevelt and Her Friends, 1943-1962”, Doubleday Books

• There is a widespread understanding among the people of this nation, and probably among the people of the world, that there is no safety except through the prevention of war.

  Eleanor Roosevelt

  War, People, Safety

  "My Day" Column by Eleanor Roosevelt, www2.gwu.edu. December 20, 1961.

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