Theodore Hesburgh quotes
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“The most important thing a father can do for his children is to love their mother.”
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“The very essence of leadership is that you have to have vision. You can't blow an uncertain trumpet.”
-- Theodore HesburghSource : Interview with Philip Scarpino, tobiascenter.iu.edu. January 6, 2009.
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“All of us are experts at practicing virtue at a distance.”
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“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?”
-- Theodore HesburghSource : Theodore Martin Hesburgh (1979). “The Hesburgh Papers: Higher Values in Higher Education”
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“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 at me I'll put you on the bench where you can see me better. 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 are popular. You make them because they are right.”
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“It is easier to exemplify values than teach them.”
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“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 gracious companion, but an essential guide.”
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“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 of kinds of intelligent beings. As a theologian, I would say that the proposed search for extraterrestrial intelligence (SETI) is also a search of knowing and understanding God through his works - especially those works that most reflect Him. Finding others than ourselves would mean knowing Him better.”
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“My basic principle is that you don't make decisions because they are cheap; you make them because they're right.”
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“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 gall, or the zeal, to call it not a school, or a college, but a university.”
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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 America. But color was something else. Reds were murdered like wild animals. Yellows were characterized as a peril and incarcerated en masse during World War ii for no really good reason by our most liberal president. Browns have been abused as the new slave labor on farms. The blacks, who did not come here willingly, are now, more than a century after emancipation by Lincoln, still suffering a host of slave like inequalities.”
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“Anyone who refuses to speak out off campus does not deserve to be listened to on campus.”
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“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 first time in the history of humanity, we were able to see our planet for what it really is.”
-- Theodore Hesburgh
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