Father Ted Hesburgh Quotes

#1. I have lived long enough to see real, significant changes made for the good...and I have been fortunate enough to have participated in some of them...One person can make a difference!
(Father Ted Hesburgh, C.S.C., quoted in our book, God's Icebreaker by Jill A. Boughton and Julie Walters)

Jill A. Boughton

#2. You don't need to be a great singer to sing, but you have to practice singing to be a great singer.

Debasish Mridha

#3. No matter how damaged we were by our lives, we are whole when we are together

Jaden Wilkes

#4. Wrestle with your thoughts until you get them on the page. Nobody can read them until you've written them down.

Peter James West

#5. It is not the path which is the difficulty; rather, it is the difficulty which is the path.

Soren Kierkegaard

#6. When Judge Ruth Bader Ginsburg was before us in 1993, she said that her standard was to give no hints, no forecasts, no previews, and declined to answer dozens of questions.

Orrin Hatch

#7. Whoever does not philosophize for the sake of philosophy, but rather uses philosophy as a means, is a sophist.

Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

#8. The difficulties of not knowing are always much greater than the effort of learning.

Andrew Loomis