Eleanor Roosevelt Quotes

I have lived a long time, and one thing I have come to see is that one is well served by a degree of both humility and charity when judging the inner workings of another person's heart

Lord, where we are wrong, make us willing to change; where we are right, make us easy to live with.

The three most difficult things for a human being are not physical feats or intellectual achievements. They are, first, returning love for hate; second, including the excluded; third, admitting that you are wrong.

The young man who has not wept is a savage, and the older man who will not laugh is a fool.

I guess the older I get, the more understanding and forgiving I've become.

Compromise and tolerance are magic words. It took me 40 years to become philosophical.

I don't think it's good to try and change anyone. The trick and the mystery - of relationships and life in general - is to learn to live with the bits you don't like.

One of the greatest indicators of our own spiritual maturity is revealed in how we respond to the weaknesses, the inexperience, and the potentially offensive actions of others.

I am not learned, but I have as good feelings as any man.

The great thing about getting older is that you become more mellow. Things aren't as black and white, and you become much more tolerant. You can see the good in things much more easily rather than getting enraged as you used to do when you were young.

As far as my mindset changing, I see myself having more empathy in my older age.

I was always proud of being tough-minded, and I think I still am, but in my old age I've got a little softer in the head, and that's all right.

As I get older, I have a different look on life. I just try to be a little more tolerant and a little bit more centered about what's going on around me and not so emotional.

I've learned a lot. Being more compassionate.

I hope you will be yourself, human, even a little sentimental, possessed of a sense of humor and a sense of humility. . . . There are arrogant people in this world and, what is worse, arrogant judges.

If I’d a knowed more, I would a loved more.

Keep up a humble sense of your own faults, and that will make you compassionate to others

Endeavor to be always patient of the faults and imperfections of others; for thou hast many faults and imperfections of thine own that require forbearance. If thou art not able to make thyself that which thou wishest, how canst thou expect to mold another in conformity to thy will?

As I got older, I guess I became more mellow and more forgiving and more loving.

Humility is always a good thing. It's always a good thing to be humbled by circumstances so you can then come from a sincere place to try to deal with them.

Personally, I think humility is a prerequisite to being a truly empathic person.

The salvation of this human world lies nowhere else than in the human heart, in the human power to reflect, in human meekness and human responsibility.

I think that the greatest lesson I learned from my father is just having compassion towards people.

A loving heart is the truest wisdom.

All we will ever know and share about love, humility, compassion, and sacrifice - the secrets that will reveal and then resolve old sorrows - awaits us within ourselves.