Theodore M. Hesburgh Quotes

#1. 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

#2. I believe there is dignity in sorrow simply because it is God's good pleasure that there should be. He is forever raising up those who are brought low.

Marilynne Robinson

#3. Venice Beach: proof of the biological impossibility of imagining a person being simultaneously good-looking and poor.

Douglas Coupland

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

Theodore Hesburgh

#5. There is within us a moral instinct which forbids us to rejoice at the death of even an enemy.

Henryk Sienkiewicz

#6. You're on a road show with your penis, and trust me, I'm the last person who wants to get in your way. But I'm telling you, operation occupy-my-vagina is a no-go for the evening.

Addison Moore

#7. What a slacker. Just because daddy paid for his college education, he thinks he can avoid dying for his country."
Willie "Drafted

Rich Allan

#8. Fasting is the greatest remedy
the physician within.

Paracelsus

#9. It is not true that everything changes; the things that change are all the manifest and material things. There is something that does not change; and that is precisely the abstract quality, the invisible idea.

G.K. Chesterton

#10. We were so mutable, fluid with fear and desire, ideals and angles, changeable as water. I

Janet Fitch

#11. 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

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

Theodore Hesburgh

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

Theodore M. Hesburgh

#14. Voting is a civic sacrament.

Theodore Hesburgh

#15. I once overheard someone telling someone else "Don't confuse kindness with something else." Even though this was not directed at me, I took heed and never hedged my bets.

Shawn Michael Severud

#16. Michael, don't," Eve said. "He won't hurt us." Andeveryone rolled their eyes at that. Even Jason, which was borderline hilarious.

Rachel Caine

#17. Maybe all spirits flew to Paris, not only French ones. Could you haunt a place you'd never been?

Darcey Steinke

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

Theodore Hesburgh

#19. The Owl looked up to the stars above,
And sang to a small guitar,
O lovely Pussy, O Pussy, my love,
What a beautiful Pussy you are,
You are,
You are!
What a beautiful Pussy you are!

Edward Lear

#20. 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

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

Theodore Hesburgh

#22. 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

#23. 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

#24. Closing the gate on her oldest fears as she had closed the gate of her own fenced yard, she discovered the wings she'd always wished she had.

Natalie Babbitt

#25. An artist has no home in Europe except in Paris.

Friedrich Nietzsche

#26. 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

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

Theodore M. Hesburgh

#28. 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

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

Theodore Hesburgh