Theodore Hesburgh Quotes

#1. I have been affected by gossip and I know people who have been, too. I've seen marriages destroyed by gossip. It is cruel. At the end of the day, all that matters is: Do you love what you see when you look in the mirror? That is it, baby.

Jada Pinkett Smith

#2. It is easier to exemplify values than teach them.

Theodore Hesburgh

#3. Obsession is not love.

Karina Halle

#4. The first resistance to social change is to say it's not necessary.

Gloria Steinem

#5. There is no academic virtue in playing mediocre football and no academic vice in winning a game that by all odds one should lose ... There has been a surrender at Notre Dame, but it is a surrender to excellence on all fronts, and in this we hope to rise above ourselves with the help of God.

Theodore Hesburgh

#6. Anyone who refuses to speak out off campus does not deserve to be listened to on campus.

Theodore Hesburgh

#7. You are safe," he said firmly. "You have my name and my family, my clan, and if necessary, the protection of my body as well. The man willna lay hands on ye again, while I live.

Diana Gabaldon

#8. Isn't there still one other possibility ... ," I said, "our persuading you that you must let us go?

Plato

#9. The very essence of leadership is that you have to have vision. You can't blow an uncertain trumpet.

Theodore M. Hesburgh

#10. If we did not have the adorable Eucharist here below, Jesus our God-with-us, this earth would be much too sad, this life too hard, and time too long. We must be grateful to the divine goodness for having left us this hidden Jesus, this pillar of cloud and fire in this desert

Peter Julian Eymard

#11. Voting is a civic sacrament.

Theodore Hesburgh

#12. Is this a dream?" The words spilled from her mouth.
Owen's grip on her hand tightened, that lone dark eye trapped her with its serious intensity. "Waking up across from you is the stuff of which dreams are made. But, no.

Laura Kaye

#13. It didn't matter that there were actually two lakes there, ... It didn't matter that he had only $300 in his pocket. He had the gall, or the zeal, to call it not a school, or a college, but a university.

Theodore Hesburgh

#14. I'll have another beer. I'm not driving.

Theodore Hesburgh

#15. The very essence of leadership is you have a vision. It's got to be a vision you articulate clearly and forcefully on every occasion.
Whatever you value, be committed to it and let nothing distract you from this goal. The uncommitted life, like Plato's unexamined life, is not worth living.

Theodore M. Hesburgh

#16. Years ago when a man began to notice that if he stood up on the subway he was immediately replaced by two people, he figured he was getting too fat.

Jean Kerr

#17. I always feel a fool when in the company of people who work for a living. It brings out my startling lack of common sense.

Stephen Fry

#18. There is no conflict between science and theology, except where there is bad science or bad theology.

Theodore Hesburgh

#19. I don't bat an eye at stuff like that. I've had my share of wins. If I worried about the games I should have won, it would probably drive me crazy. It was a fun game to pitch in.

Roger Clemens

#20. Faith is not an easy virtue; but, in the broad world of a person's total voyage through time to eternity, faith is not only a gracious companion, but an essential guide.

Theodore Hesburgh

#21. A decade after an average athlete graduates, everyone will have forgotten when and where he played. But every time he speaks, everyone will know whether he was educated.

Theodore Hesburgh

#22. In a way, the history of jazz's development is a small mirror of classical music's development through the centuries. Now jazz is a living form of original music, while classical music has gotten to the end of its cycle in terms of exploring its form.

Mike Figgis

#23. My basic principle is that you don't make decisions because they are easy; you don't make them because they are cheap; you don't make them because they're popular; you make them because they're right.

Theodore Hesburgh

#24. The most important thing that a father can do for his children is to love their mother.

Theodore M. Hesburgh

#25. The greatest fallout of the space program, ... was not the close-up view of the moon, but a look at spaceship Earth from afar. For the first time in the history of humanity, we were able to see our planet for what it really is.

Theodore Hesburgh

#26. All of us are experts at practicing virtue at a distance.

Theodore Hesburgh

#27. Do not speak about anyone who is not physically present.

Allan Lokos

#28. My God ... What are the headlines going to be like on Monday if the Yankees don't make the playoffs?

Wade Boggs

#29. I think that one of the things about music is it's supposed to be spontaneous, it's supposed to be real human beings bouncing off of each other whether its from the stage or to the audience, or jamming with friends.

Tod Machover