Quotes from 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.

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.

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.

You may take this as a general and central principle in criticism: that all science, literature or song, which recognizes conscious life as the ruling principle of the universe, is Christian.

The Resurrection miracle is nothing to you and me if it is only an event of eighteen centuries bygone. Unless we can live the immortal life - unless we can receive God to his own home in these hearts of ours - the texts are nothing to us unless these daily lives illustrate them.

Do not blow your own trumpets nor, which is the same thing, ask other people to blow them. No trumpeter ever rose to be a general.

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.

Do well what you do. And do it conscious that you ought to be leaders among men.

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.

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.

War - hard apprenticeship of freedom