Quotes by 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

Success

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. And by the grace of God, I will.

— Edward Everett Hale

Wisdom

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

Wisdom

Never bear more than one kind of trouble at a time. Some people bear three kinds of trouble - the ones they've had, the ones they have, and the ones they expect to have.

— Edward Everett Hale

Wisdom

'Do you pray for the senators, Dr. Hale?' No, I look at the senators and I pray for the country.

— Edward Everett Hale

Wisdom

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

— Edward Everett Hale

Wisdom

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

— Edward Everett Hale

Wisdom

If you have accomplished all that you have planned for yourself, you have not planned enough.

— Edward Everett Hale

Wisdom

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

Wisdom

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

— Edward Everett Hale

Wisdom

War - hard apprenticeship of freedom.

— Edward Everett Hale

Freedom