Everett Hale Quotes

#1. am only one, But still I am one. I cannot do everything, But still I can do something; And because I cannot do everything, I will not refuse to do the something that I can do. - Edward Everett Hale

Katy Regnery

#2. In the pure mathematics we contemplate absolute truths which existed in the divine mind before the morning stars sang together, and which will continue to exist there when the last of their radiant host shall have fallen from heaven.

Edward Everett Hale

#3. Denmark should be a green and sustainable society with a visionary climate and energy policy ... The answer to these challenges lies in the way we produce and consume energy and in our ability to adapt our society to climate change.

Connie Hedegaard

#4. To look forward and not back, To look out and not in, and To lend a hand.

Edward Everett Hale

#5. Do you pray for the senators, Dr. Hale?' someone asked the chaplain. No, I look at the senators and I pray for the country.

Edward Everett Hale

#6. I know I am only one, but I am one, and just because I'm one should not stop me from

Edward Everett Hale

#7. [S]leep, and enough of it, is the prime necessity. Enough exercise, and good food and enough, are other necessities. But sleep - good sleep, and enough of it - this is a necessity without which you cannot have the exercise of use, nor the food.

Edward Everett Hale

#8. Friendship is one of the greatest luxuries of life.

Edward Everett Hale

#9. If you have accomplished all that you have planned for yourself, you have not planned enough.

Edward Everett Hale

#10. You and I must not complain if our plans break down if we have done our part. That probably means that the plans of One who knows more than we do have succeeded.

Edward Everett Hale

#11. Never bear more than one trouble at a time. Some people bear three kinds
all they have had, all they have now, and all they expect to have.

Edward Everett Hale

#12. Make it your habit not to be critical about small things.

Edward Everett Hale

#13. I am only one, but I am one. I can't do everything, but I can do something. The something I ought to do, I can do. And by the grace of God, I will.

Edward Everett Hale

#14. An intelligent class can scarce ever be, as a class, vicious, and never, as a class, indolent. The excited mental activity operates as a counterpoise to the stimulus of sense and appetite.

Edward Everett Hale

#15. I am only one, but I am one. I cannot do everything, but I can do something. And because I cannot do everything, I will not refuse to do the something that I can do.

Edward Everett Hale

#16. I will not refuse to do the something I can do.

Edward Everett Hale

#17. I have a beautiful, big bathtub.

Mark Morris

#18. Never bear more than one kind of trouble at a time. Some people bear three kinds of trouble - the ones they've had, the ones they have, and the ones they expect to have.

Edward Everett Hale

#19. Behind all these men you have to do with, behind officers, and government, and people even, there is the country herself, your country, and ... you belong to her as you belong to your own mother. Stand by her, boy, as you would stand by your mother.

Edward Everett Hale

#20. Wise anger is like fire from a flint: there is great ado to get it out; and when it does come, it is out again immediately.

Edward Everett Hale

#21. I was never a villain on the stage. I always played strong, sympathetic types. My first stage role with a speaking part, believe it or not, was as a priest. It wasn't until I began acting in films that the producers and directors saw me primarily as a bizarre villain.

Conrad Veidt

#22. People are reminded that it's not all ugliness in the world.

Thomas Kincade

#23. You shall not pile, with servile toil, Your monuments upon my breast, Nor yet within the common soil Lay down the wreck of power to rest, Where man can boast that he has trod On him that was "the scourge of God."

Edward Everett Hale

#24. And one might therefore say of me that in this book I have only made up a bunch of other people's flowers, and that of my own I have only provided the string that ties them together.

Michel De Montaigne

#25. One must strike the right balance between speed and quality.

Clare Short

#26. Leave the matter of religion to the family altar the church and the private school supported entirely by private contributions. Keep the church and state forever separate.

Ulysses S. Grant

#27. The making of friends who are real friends, is the best token we have of a man's success in life.

Edward Everett Hale

#28. Every private in the French army carries a Field Marshall wand in his knapsack.

Napoleon Bonaparte

#29. In the name of Hypocrites, doctors have invented the most exquisite form of torture ever known to man: survival.

Edward Everett Hale

#30. I am only one, but still I am one. I cannot do everything, but still I can do something; and because I cannot do everything, I will not refuse to do something that I can do.

Edward Everett Hale

#31. I can't do everything, but that won't stop me from doing the little I can do.

Edward Everett Hale

#32. For all mankind that unstained scroll unfurled, Where God might write anew the story of the World.

Edward Everett Hale

#33. He loved his country as no other man has loved her, but no man deserved less at her hands.

Edward Everett Hale

#34. War - hard apprenticeship of freedom.

Edward Everett Hale

#35. Look up and not down; look out and not in; look forward and not back, and lend a hand.

Edward Everett Hale

#36. Take time enough for your meals, and eat them in company whenever you can. There is no need for hurry in life - least of all when we are eating.

Edward Everett Hale