Quotes by Edward Everett Hale

“I am only one, but I am one. I cant do everything, but I can do something. The something I ought to do, I can do. And by the grace of God, I will.”

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

“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.”

“The making of friends who are real friends, is the best token we have of a mans success in life.”

“Make it your habit not to be critical about small things”

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

“Sometimes your medicine bottle has on it, Shake well before using. That is what God has to do with some of His people. He has to shake them well before they are ever usable.”

“Never bear more than one kind of trouble at a time. Some people bear three - all they have had, all they have now, and all they expect to have.”

“War - hard apprenticeship of freedom”

“When we treat man as he is, we make him worse than he is; when we treat him as if he already were what he potentially could be, we make him what he should be.”

“Your worst days are never so bad that you are beyond the reach of Gods grace. And your best days are never so good that youre beyond the need of Gods grace.”

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

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.

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 the something that I can do.

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.

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 something 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 the something that I can do.

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 cannot do everything but still I can do something and because I cannot do everything I will not refuse to do something that I can do.