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.
—Edward Everett Hale
Topics: Worry
If you have accomplished all that you have planned for yourself, you have not planned enough.
—Edward Everett Hale
Topics: Planning
Look up and not down;Look forward and not back;Look out and not in;Lend a Hand.
—Edward Everett Hale
Look up and not down, look forward and not back, look out and not in, and lend a hand!
—Edward Everett Hale
Topics: Helpfulness, Kindness
Commerce is no missionary to carry more or better than you have at home.—But what you have at home, be it gospel, or be it drunkenness, commerce carries the world over.
—Edward Everett Hale
Do you pray for the Senators, Dr. Hale? someone asked the chaplain. No, I look at the Senators and pray for the country.
—Edward Everett Hale
Look up, and not down; Out and not in; Forward and not back; And lend a hand.
—Edward Everett Hale
Topics: Support
If you have accomplished all that you have planned for yourself, you have not planned enough.
—Edward Everett Hale
Topics: Planning
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
Topics: Acceptance, Self-Discovery, Doing Your Best, Responsibility, Action, Realistic Expectations, One Step at a Time, Helping, Realization
Some people bear three kinds of trouble—all they ever had, all they have now, and all they expect to have.
—Edward Everett Hale
Topics: Worry, Trouble, Adversity, Expectations
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