Quotes by Edward Everett Hale

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

“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.”

“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.”

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

“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, ca...”

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

“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, ...”

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

“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.”

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

“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.”

“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 I can do.”

“War - hard apprenticeship of freedom.”

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

“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.”

“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 I can do.”

“No matter what happens to you, no matter who flatters you or who abuses you, never look at another flag, never let a night pass but you pray God to bless that flag. Remember, boy, that behind all t...”

“He loved his country as no other man has loved her; but no man deserved less at her hands.”

“Can it be possible that all human sympathies can thrive, and all human powers be exercised, and all human joys increase, if we live with all our might with the thirty or forty people next to us, te...”

“The church itself has got to go outside of its own borders and carry the gospel to ev'ry creature, or it is no church of Christ; and any mutual improvement club which thinks that by reading its Sha...”