Helen Hayes famous quotes

05-17-2025

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

#Sports #Hero #News
If you rest, you rust.
-- Helen Hayes

#Funny #Life #Perseverance
The hardest years in life are those between ten and seventy.
-- Helen Hayes

#Funny #Life #Witty
Love is perhaps the only glimpse we are permitted of eternity.
-- Helen Hayes

#Love #Glimpse #Engagement
Only the poet can look beyond the detail and see the whole picture.
-- Helen Hayes

#Women #Famous Inspirational #Memorable
One has to grow up with good talk in order to form the habit of it.
-- Helen Hayes

#Growing Up #Order #Habit
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
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.
-- Helen Hayes

#Wisdom #Acceptance #Giving
People who refuse to rest honorably on their laurels when they reach retirement age seem very admirable to me.
-- Helen Hayes

#Retirement #People #Age
Actors cannot choose the manner in which they are born. Consequently, it is the one gesture in their lives completely devoid of self-consciousness.
-- Helen Hayes

#Self #Theatre #Actors
Actors work and slave and it is the color of your hair that can determine your fate in the end.
-- Helen Hayes

#Fate #Hair #Color
Childhood is a short season.
-- Helen Hayes

#Children #Childhood
When traveling with someone, take large does of patience and tolerance with your morning coffee.
-- Helen Hayes

#Morning #Travel #Coffee
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.
-- Helen Hayes

#Love #Important #Glimpse
The good die young but not always. The wicked prevail but not consistently. I am confused by life, and I feel safe within the confines of the theatre.
-- Helen Hayes

#Confused #Theatre #Wicked
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
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.
-- Helen Hayes

#Education #Laughter #Book
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.
-- Helen Hayes

#Stay Strong #Hiking #Self
Perhaps we have been misguided into taking too much responsibility from our children, leaving them too little room for discovery
-- Helen Hayes

#Children #Responsibility #Discovery
Mere longevity is a good thing for those who watch Life from the side lines. For those who play the game, an hour may be a year, a single day's work an achievement for eternity.
-- Helen Hayes

#Life #Games #Play
Stardom can be a gilded slavery.
-- Helen Hayes

#Slavery #Stardom
The worst constructed play is a Bach fugue when compared to life.
-- Helen Hayes

#Play #Theatre #Worst
There's a little vanity chair that Charlie gave me the first Christmas we knew each other. I'll not be parting with that, nor our bed - the four-poster - I'll be needing that to die in.
-- Helen Hayes

#Christmas #Vanity #Littles
Legends die hard. They survive as truth rarely does.
-- Helen Hayes

#Doe #Legends
I'm leaving the screen because I don't think I am very good in the pictures and I have this beautiful dream that I'm elegant on the stage.
-- Helen Hayes

#Beautiful #Dream #Thinking
Age is not important unless you're a cheese.
-- Helen Hayes

#Birthday #Important #Age

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