Theodore Hesburgh Quotes

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• The melting pot failed to function in one crucial area. Religions and nationalities, however different, generally learned to live together, even to grow together, in…
• It didn't matter that there were actually two lakes there, ... It didn't matter that he had only $300 in his pocket. He had the…
• It is easier to exemplify values than teach them.
• My basic principle is that you don't make decisions because they are cheap; you make them because they're right.
• You can't blow an uncertain trumpet.
• Once He created the Big Bang... He could have envisioned it going in billions of directions as it evolved, including billions of life-forms and billions…
• Bill Walton, UH Volleyball coach, after his player kept looking at him on the bench every time the ball hit the floor...Next time you look…
• Faith is not an easy virtue; but, in the broad world of a person's total voyage through time to eternity, faith is not only a…
• The greatest fallout of the space program, ... was not the close-up view of the moon, but a look at spaceship Earth from afar. For…
• The most important thing a father can do for his children is to love their mother.
• Voting is a civic sacrament.
• The very essence of leadership is that you have to have vision. You can't blow an uncertain trumpet.
• All of us are experts at practicing virtue at a distance.
• Anyone who refuses to speak out off campus does not deserve to be listened to on campus.
• 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…
• 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…
• The very essence of leadership is [that] you have a vision. It's got to be a vision you articulate clearly and forcefully on every occasion.…

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