FAVORITE QUOTES

BY AUTHORS - "H"

 

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)

I have one request: may I never use my reason against the truth.
(Hasidic prayer)

Education would be so much more effective if its purpose were to ensure that by the time they leave school every boy and girl should know how much they don't know, and be imbued with a lifelong desire to know it.
(Sir William Haley)

Life demands from you only the strength you possess. Only one feat is possible - not to have run away. (Dag Hammarskjold)

No really great man ever thought himself so. (William Hazlitt)

Lots of people know a good thing the minute the other fellow sees it first.
(Job E. Hedges )

There is nothing permanent except change. (Heraclitus)

Never mistake motion for action. (Ernest Hemingway)

When a friend asks, there is no tomorrow. (George Herbert)

The mode by which the inevitable comes to pass is effort.
(Oliver Wendell Holmes)

When a friend is in trouble, don't annoy him by asking if there is anything you can do. Think up something appropriate and do it. (Edgar Watson Howe)

To avoid criticism, do nothing, say nothing, be nothing. (Elbert Hubbard)

We cannot determine whether our faces shall be beautiful or ugly, our bodies graceful or deformed. But the shaping of our life is in our own hands. We make that great or small, noble or mean, as we will. (George Henry Hubbard)

The greatest happiness of life is the conviction that we are loved -- loved for ourselves, or rather, loved in spite of ourselves. (Victor Hugo)

A man has to live with himself, and he should see to it that he always has good company. (Charles Evans Hughes)

Hold fast to dreams, for if dreams die, a life is a broken-winged bird that cannot fly. Hold fast to dreams, for when dreams go, life is a berry field frozen with snow. (Langston Hughes)

Much of our American progress has been the product of the individual who had an idea; pursued it; fashioned it; tenaciously clung to it against all odds; and then produced it, sold it, and profited from it. (Hubert H. Humphrey)

Education is not to reform students or amuse them or to make them expert technicians. It is to unsettle their minds, widen their horizons, inflame their intellects, teach them to thing straight, if possible. (Robert M. Hutchins)

The object of education is to prepare the young to educate themselves throughout their lives. (Robert M. Hutchins)

Try to learn something about everything, and everything about something.
(T. H. Huxley)

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