Edward Everett Hale Quotes

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

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

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 the something that I can do.

~ Edward Everett Hale

I am only one, but I am one. I cannot do everything, but I can do something. And I will not let what I cannot do interfere with what I can do.

~ Edward Everett Hale

To look up and not down To look forward and not back To look out and not in and To lend a hand.

~ Edward Everett Hale

I cannot do everything but still I can do something and because I cannot do everything I will not refuse to do something I can do.

~ Edward Everett Hale

I cannot do everything but still I can do something and because I cannot do everything I will not refuse to do something I can do.

~ Edward Everett Hale

War - hard apprenticeship of freedom.

~ Edward Everett Hale

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

~ Edward Everett Hale

It seems as if, for every dragon head that is lopped off, two more terrible appear. Seems so. But in truth, Life is gaining all the while. Brute force, such power as there seems to be in things, cannot stand against ideas which are eternal.

~ Edward Everett Hale

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

~ Edward Everett Hale

Life seeks life and loves life. The opening of a catkin of a willow, in the flight of the butterfly, in the chirping of a tree-toad or the sweep of an eagle - my life loves to see how others live, exults in their joy, and so far is partner in their great concern.

~ Edward Everett Hale

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

~ Edward Everett Hale

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