"I am only one, But still I am……" — Edward Everett Hale
"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"
—
Edward Everett Hale
★
★
★
★
★
0.0 avg (0 ratings)
26 Quotes by Edward Everett Hale
Edward Everett Hale has 26 quotes on this site.
A few more worth reading:
-
Behind all these men you have to do with, behind officers, and government, and people even, there is the country…
-
You and I must not complain if our plans break down if we have done our part. That probably means…
-
Wise anger is like fire from a flint: there is great ado to get it out; and when it does…
-
In the pure mathematics we contemplate absolute truths which existed in the divine mind before the morning stars sang together,…
-
He loved his country as no other man has loved her, but no man deserved less at her hands.
-
I will not refuse to do the something I can do.
-
You shall not pile, with servile toil, Your monuments upon my breast, Nor yet within the common soil Lay down…
-
I know I am only one, but I am one, and just because I'm one should not stop me from
-
For all mankind that unstained scroll unfurled, Where God might write anew the story of the World.
-
Take time enough for your meals, and eat them in company whenever you can. There is no need for hurry…
-
[I]t is easy to regard the mind and the body as two slaves trained to obey the imperial soul.... [I]n…
-
[S]leep, and enough of it, is the prime necessity. Enough exercise, and good food and enough, are other necessities. But…
See all 26 quotes by Edward Everett Hale »
More Action Quotes
This quote is filed under Action Quotes,
one of 8,300 quotes in that category. Here are a few more:
-
Forgiveness is the key to action and freedom.
— Hannah Arendt
-
Revolutionaries do not make revolutions. The revolutionaries are those who know when power is lying in the street and then…
— Hannah Arendt
-
Under conditions of tyranny it is far easier to act than to think.
— Hannah Arendt
-
Action without a name, a who attached to it, is meaningless.
— Hannah Arendt
-
All human actions have one or more of these seven causes: chance, nature, compulsions, habit, reason, passion, desire.
— Aristotle
-
Moral excellence comes about as a result of habit. We become just by doing just acts, temperate by doing temperate…
— Aristotle
-
Well begun is half done.
— Aristotle
-
A tragedy is a representation of an action that is whole and complete and of a certain magnitude. A whole…
— Aristotle
-
Thou wilt find rest from vain fancies if thou doest every act in life as though it were thy last.
— Aristotle
-
We become just by performing just action, temperate by performing temperate actions, brave by performing brave action.
— Aristotle
-
Every art and every inquiry, and similarly every action and choice, is thought to aim at some good; and for…
— Aristotle
-
What the statesman is most anxious to produce is a certain moral character in his fellow citizens, namely a disposition…
— Aristotle
See all 8,300 Action Quotes »