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Theodore Hesburgh Quotes
«The very essence of leadership is that you have to have vision. You can't blow an uncertain trumpet.»
«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're popular; you make them because they're right.»
«The most important thing a father can do for his children is to love their mother.»
Author: Theodore Hesburgh
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Family
«The very essence of leadership is [that] you have a vision. It's got to be a vision you articulate clearly and forcefully on every occasion. You can't blow an uncertain trumpet.»
Author: Theodore Hesburgh
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Leadership
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articulate, forcefully, occasion, trumpet, uncertain
«Voting is a civic sacrament.»
Author: Theodore Hesburgh
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Voting
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civic, sacrament, sacraments, the sacrament, voting
«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.»
«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.»
Author: Theodore Hesburgh
«I have a lot to be humble about, ... I'd like to say that it's the happiest day of my life, but it isn't: The happiest day of my life was when I was anointed a Catholic priest.»
Author: Theodore Hesburgh
«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.»
Author: Theodore Hesburgh