Theodore Hesburgh Famous Quotes
The very essence of leadership is that you have to have a vision.
"I can think of no better way of redeeming this tragic world today than love and laughter. Too many of the young have forgotten how to laugh, and too many of the elders have forgotten how to love. Would not our lives be lightened if only we could all learn to laugh more easily at ourselves and to love one another"
My basic principle is that you don't make decisions because they are easy you don't make them because they are cheap you don't make them because they're popular you make them because *they're right*.
The very essence of leadership is that you have to have vision. You can't blow an uncertain trumpet.
Anyone who refuses to speak out off campus does not deserve to be listened to on campus.
The most important thing a father can do for his children is to love their mother.
Theodore Hesburgh Quotations
"If we don't want to see the map of Central America covered in a sea of red, eventually lapping at our own borders, we must act now."
Ronald Reagan
I'm keenly aware of the Pride coming before the Fall . . . but I really do like what I've been able to do here.
Wil Wheaton
Of writing well the source and fountainhead is wise thinking.
Horace
"Our flag is red, white and blue, but our nation is a rainbow-red, yellow, brown, black and white-and we're all precious in God's sight."
Jesse Louis Jackson
I was thrown out of college for cheating on the metaphysics exam I looked into the soul of the boy sitting next to me.
Woody Allen
Life is something that everyone should try at least once.
Henry J Tillman
He's a real loser. He moved into a new neighborhood and got run over by the Welcome Wagon.
Red Buttons
"Books won't stay banned. They won't burn. Ideas won't go to jail. In the long run of history, the censor and the inquisitor have always lost. The only sure weapon against bad ideas is better ideas. The source of better ideas is wisdom. The surest path to wisdom is a liberal education."
Alfred Whitney
Cheerfulness and contentment are great beautifiers and are famous preservers of youthful looks.
Charles Dickens
"Many men have been just as troubled morally and spiritually as you are right now. Happily, some of them kept records of their troubles. You'll learn from them--if you want to. Just as someday, if you have something to offer, someone will learn something from you. It's a beautiful reciprocal arrangement. And it isn't education. It's history. It's poetry."
J D Salinger