Edward Everett Hale Quotes


"To look forward and not back, To look out and not in, and To lend a hand."
- 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
(Related: Life, Success, Friends, Man)

"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
(Related: Time, People, Trouble)

"Make it your habit not to be critical about small things."
- Edward Everett Hale
(Related: Habit)

"In the name of Hypocrites, doctors have invented the most exquisite form of torture ever known to man: survival."
- Edward Everett Hale
(Related: Survival, Doctors, Name)

"If you have accomplished all that you have planned for yourself, you have not planned enough."
- 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
(Related: Will)

"'Do you pray for the senators, Dr. Hale?' No, I look at the senators and I pray for the country."
- Edward Everett Hale
(Related: Country, Senators)

"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
(Related: Anger, Fire)