Helen Hayes Quotes

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• The expert at anything was once a beginner.

  Helen Hayes

  Motivational, Teacher, Experts

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• We relish news of our heroes, forgetting that we are extraordinary to somebody too.

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  Sports, Hero, News

  Helen Hayes, Marion Glasserow Gladney (1986). “Our Best Years”, Doubleday Books

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• My mother drew a distinction between achievement and success. She said that 'achievement is the knowledge that you have studied and worked hard and done the best that is in you. Success is being praised by others, and that's nice, too, but not as important or satisfying. Always aim for achievement and forget about success.

  Helen Hayes

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

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• If you rest, you rust.

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  Funny, Life, Perseverance

  Helen Hayes, Katherine Hatch (1991). “My life in three acts”

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• From your parents you learn love and laughter and how to put one foot before the other. But when books are opened you discover that you have wings.

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  Education, Laughter, Book

  Helen Hayes (1969). “Another Fawcett Crest Book”

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• The hardest years in life are those between ten and seventy.

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  Funny, Life, Witty

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes".

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• Age is not important unless you're a cheese.

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  Birthday, Age, Important

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• The faster we travel, the less there is to see.

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  Speed, Faster

  Helen Hayes, Marion Glasserow Gladney (1986). “Our Best Years”, Doubleday Books

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• Love is perhaps the only glimpse we are permitted of eternity.

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  Love, Glimpse, Engagement

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• Always aim for achievement, and forget about success.

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  Success, Life And Love, Congratulations

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• Science has taught us to lengthen life. Now we must learn to make a longer life worth living. Older people deserve choices that let us live out our days as we wish. We've seen people making such choices all over America, and we realize what we might have known from the start: For most of us, there really is no place like home.

  Helen Hayes

  Learning, Home, Taught Us

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• Egocentrics are attracted to the inept. It gives them one more excuse for patting themselves on the back.

  Helen Hayes

  Giving, Excuse

  Helen Hayes (2014). “On Reflection: An Autobiography”, p.150, Rowman & Littlefield

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• When traveling with someone, take large does of patience and tolerance with your morning coffee.

  Helen Hayes

  Travel, Morning, Coffee

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• We rely upon the poets, the philosophers, and the playwrights to articulate what most of us can only feel, in joy or sorrow. They illuminate the thoughts for which we only grope; they give us the strength and balm we cannot find in ourselves. Whenever I feel my courage wavering, I rush to them. They give me the wisdom of acceptance, the will and resiliance to push on.

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  Wisdom, Acceptance, Rely Upon

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  Every human being on this earth is born with a tragedy, and it isn't original sin. He's born with the tragedy that he has to grow up... a lot of people don't have the courage to do it.

  Helen Hayes

  Birthday, Courage, Growing Up

  "Showcase". Book by Roy Newquist, 1966.

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• In this sometimes turbulent world, the river is a cosmic symbol of durability and destiny; awesome, but steadfast. In this period of deep national concern, I wish everyone could live for a while beside a great river.

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  Destiny, Rivers, Wish

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• When books are opened, we discover that we have wings

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  Book, Wings

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• Only the poet can look beyond the detail and see the whole picture.

  Helen Hayes

  Women, Famous Inspirational, Memorable

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• We live in a very tense society. We are pulled apart... and we all need to learn how to pull ourselves together.... I think that at least part of the answer lies in solitude.

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  Lying, Thinking, Solitude

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• Legends die hard. They survive as truth rarely does.

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  Doe, Legends, Dies

  Helen Hayes (1969). “Another Fawcett Crest Book”

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• The worst constructed play is a Bach fugue when compared to life.

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  Play, Theatre, Worst

  "On Reflection". Book by Helen Hayes, Ch. 14, 1968.

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• The truth is that there is only one terminal dignity - love. And the story of a love is not important - what is important is that one is capable of love. It is perhaps the only glimpse we are permitted of eternity.

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  Love, Heart, Important

  Guideposts, January 1960.

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• One has to grow up with good talk in order to form the habit of it.

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  Growing Up, Women, Order

  "A Gift of Joy". Book by Helen Hayes, Lewis Funke (p. 11), 1965.

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• Everybody starts at the top, and then has the problem of staying there. Lasting accomplishment, however, is still achieved through a long, slow climb and self-discipline.

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  Stay Strong, Self, Hiking

  Helen Hayes (2014). “On Reflection: An Autobiography”, p.112, Rowman & Littlefield

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• All my dogs have been scamps and thieves and troublemakers and I've adored them all.

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  Dog, Training, Thieves

  Helen Hayes (2014). “On Reflection: An Autobiography”, p.201, Rowman & Littlefield

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