Take time enough for your meals, and eat them in company whenever you can. There is no need for hurry in life—least of all when we are eating. Edward Everett Hale More Quotes by Edward Everett Hale More Quotes From 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 real success friendship 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 making-a-difference charity grace If you have accomplished all that you have planned for yourself, you have not planned enough. Edward Everett Hale decision motivational inspirational I know I am only one, but I am one, and just because I'm one should not stop me from Edward Everett Hale should leadership sports In the name of Hypocrites, doctors have invented the most exquisite form of torture ever known to man: survival. Edward Everett Hale hypocrite native-american time 'Do you pray for the senators, Dr. Hale?' No, I look at the senators and I pray for the country. Edward Everett Hale drs country looks Friendship is one of the greatest luxuries of life. Edward Everett Hale luxury [S]leep, and enough of it, is the prime necessity. Enough exercise, and good food and enough, are other necessities. But sleep—good sleep, and enough of it—this is a necessity without which you cannot have the exercise of use, nor the food. Edward Everett Hale use exercise sleep You and I must not complain if our plans break down if we have done our part. That probably means that the plans of One who knows more than we do have succeeded. Edward Everett Hale done complaining mean 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 Shakspearo, or by acting its pretty tableaux, or by having. this or that little reading from Spenser and from Chaucer, it is going to lift itself up into any higher order of culture or life, is wholly mistaken, unless as an essential part of its duty, it goes out into the world, finds those that are falling down, and lifts them up to the majesty of freemen, who are sons of God. Edward Everett Hale reading son fall I can't do everything, but that won't stop me from doing the little I can do. Edward Everett Hale i-can can-do littles Make it your habit not to be critical about small things. Edward Everett Hale critical-spirit critical habit To look forward and not back, To look out and not in, and To lend a hand. Edward Everett Hale optimism motivational hands Never bear more than one trouble at a time. Some people bear three kinds - all they have had, all they have now, and all they expect to have. Edward Everett Hale failure worry people 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, telegraphing kindly to all other people, to be sure? Can it be possible that our passion for large cities, and large parties, and large theatres, and large churches, develops no faith nor hope nor love which would not find aliment and exercise in a little "world of our own"? Edward Everett Hale passion party exercise No gilded dome swells from the lowly roof to catch the morning or evening beam; but the love and gratitude of united America settle upon it in one eternal sunshine. From beneath that humble roof went forth the intrepid and unselfish warrior, the magistrate who knew no glory but his country's good; to that he returned, happiest when his work was done. There he lived in noble simplicity, there he died in glory and peace. Edward Everett Hale gratitude peace country An intelligent class can scarce ever be, as a class, vicious, and never, as a class, indolent. The excited mental activity operates as a counterpoise to the stimulus of sense and appetite. Edward Everett Hale intelligence intelligent class I will not refuse to do the something I can do. Edward Everett Hale peace-justice words-of-kindness refuse For all mankind that unstained scroll unfurled, Where God might write anew the story of the World. Edward Everett Hale stories writing world Behind all these men you have to do with, behind officers, and government, and people even, there is the country herself, your country, and . . . you belong to her as you belong to your own mother. Stand by her, boy, as you would stand by your mother. Edward Everett Hale mother boys country
