Understanding is a two-way street. ...
by Eleanor Roosevelt
Understanding is a two-way street.
- Eleanor Roosevelt
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Sayings by Eleanor Roosevelt
With the new day comes new strength and new thoughts.
- Eleanor Roosevelt 
The future belongs to those
who believe in the beauty of their dreams.
- Eleanor Roosevelt
It is better to light a candle than to curse the darkness.
- Chinese proverb often quoted by Eleanor Roosevelt
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No one can make you feel inferior without your consent.
- Eleanor Roosevelt
As for accomplishments,
I just did what I had to do as things came along.
- Eleanor Roosevelt
Nobody can make you feel inferior without your consent.
- Eleanor Roosevelt
The giving of love is an education in itself.
- Eleanor Roosevelt
Only a man's character is the real criterion of worth.
- Eleanor Roosevelt
When you cease to make a contribution, you begin to die.
- Eleanor Roosevelt
It is not fair to ask of others
what you are not willing to do yourself.
- Eleanor Roosevelt
What one has to do usually can be done.
- Eleanor Roosevelt
What you don't do can be a destructive force.
- Eleanor Roosevelt
What is to give light must endure the burning.
- Eleanor Roosevelt
I'm so glad I never feel important, it does complicate life!
- Eleanor Roosevelt
A little simplification would be
the first step toward rational living.
- Eleanor Roosevelt
Never allow a person to tell you NO
who doesn't have the power to say YES.
- Eleanor Roosevelt
Happiness is not a goal; it is a by-product.
- Eleanor Roosevelt
Remember always that you have not only the right to be an individual,
you have an obligation to be one.
- Eleanor Roosevelt
You must do the thing that you think you cannot do.
- Eleanor Roosevelt
Do what you feel in your heart to be right.
You'll be criticized anyway.
- Eleanor Roosevelt
It isn't enough to talk about peace.
One must believe in it.
And it isn't enough to believe in it.
One must work at it.
- Eleanor Roosevelt
It is not more vacation we need -
it is more vocation.
- Eleanor Roosevelt
When will our consciences grow so tender
that we will act to prevent human misery rather than avenge it?
- Eleanor Roosevelt
Great minds discuss ideas;
average minds discuss events;
small minds discuss people.
- Eleanor Roosevelt
I think that somehow, we learn who we really are
and then live with that decision.
- Eleanor Roosevelt
Friendship with one's self is all important,
because without it one cannot be friends with anyone else in the world.
- Eleanor Roosevelt
Perhaps nature is our best assurance of immortality.
- Eleanor Roosevelt
It takes as much energy to wish as it does to plan.
- Eleanor Roosevelt
If life were predictable
it would cease to be life,
and be without flavor.
- Eleanor Roosevelt
Old age has deformities enough of its own.
It should never add to them the deformity of vice.
- Eleanor Roosevelt
My experience has been that work is
almost the best way to pull oneself out of the depths.
- Eleanor Roosevelt
I have spent many years of my life in opposition,
and I rather like the role.
- Eleanor Roosevelt
Life must be lived and curiosity kept alive.
One must never, for whatever reason, turn his back on life.
- Eleanor Roosevelt
People grow through experience
if they meet life honestly and courageously.
This is how character is built.
- Eleanor Roosevelt
Women are like teabags.
We don't know our true strength
until we are in hot water!
- Eleanor Roosevelt
Justice cannot be for one side alone, but must be for both.
- Eleanor Roosevelt
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
We are afraid to care too much, for fear
that the other person does not care at all.
- Eleanor Roosevelt
Have convictions. Be friendly.
Stick to your beliefs as they stick to theirs.
Work as hard as they do.
- Eleanor Roosevelt
Understanding Sayings
You never really understand a person
until you consider things from his point of view.
- Harper Lee
Be kind, for everyone you meet is fighting a hard battle.
- Philo
Deal with the faults of others as gently as with your own.
- Chinese proverb
And as he spoke of understanding,
I looked up and saw the rainbow leap
with flames of many colors over me.
- Black Elk
Anger and intolerance are the enemies of correct understanding.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
Everything that irritates us about others
can lead us to an understanding of ourselves.
- Carl Jung
Peace cannot be kept by force;
it can only be achieved by understanding.
- Albert Einstein
Your pain is the breaking of the shell
that encloses your understanding.
- Khalil Gibran
Peace cannot be achieved through violence,
it can only be attained through understanding.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
People understand me so poorly that they don't even understand
my complaint about them not understanding me.
- Soren Kierkegaard
The noblest pleasure is the joy of understanding.
- Leonardo da Vinci
Understanding does not cure evil,
but it is a definite help,
inasmuch as one can cope
with a comprehensible darkness.
- Carl Jung
The loving energy that I radiate into this world
is a gift beyond my own understanding.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
The power of intuitive understanding
will protect you from harm until the end of your days.
- Lao Tzu
I do not want the peace that passeth understanding.
I want the understanding which bringeth peace.
- Helen Keller
Two Sayings
Every tomorrow has two handles.
We can take hold of it with the handle of anxiety
or the handle of faith.
- Henry Ward Beecher
There are two kinds of failures:
those who thought and never did,
and those who did and never thought.
- Laurence J. Peter
Pride comes in two flavors -
choose honor, not ego.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Two little words that can make the difference: START NOW.
- Mary C. Crowley
The Two Great Lessons of Life: Choose Love & Trust God.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Friendship is one mind in two bodies.
- Mencius
Friendship is not possible between two women
one of whom is very well dressed.
- Laurie Colwin
You can't cross a chasm in two small jumps.
- old proverb often attributed to David Lloyd George
As you grow older you will discover that you have two hands.
One for helping yourself, the other for helping others.
- Audrey Hepburn
There are only two mistakes one can make along the road to truth;
not going all the way, and not starting.
- The Buddha
There are two lasting bequests we can give our children
One is roots, the other is wings.
- Hodding Carter
We have two ears and one mouth so that
we can listen twice as much as we speak.
- Epictetus
Love is a game that two can play and both win.
- Eva Gabor
Friendship is a single soul dwelling in two bodies.
- Aristotle
Winners must have two things:
definite goals and a burning desire to achieve them.
- Anonymous
Sadness is but a wall between two gardens.
- Khalil Gibran
A wise man hears one word and understands two.
- Yiddish Proverb
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