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Hall, Edward T.
People
are tied together and yet isolated from each other by invisible threads of
rhythm and hidden walls of time. Time
is . . . a primary organizer of all activities, a synthesizer and integrator, a way
of handling priorities and categorizing experience, a feedback mechanism for how
things are going, a measuring rod against which competence, effort, and
achievement are judged as well as a special message system revealing how people
really feel about each other and whether or not they can get along.
Halsey, Margaret
Identity is not found, the way Pharaoh's daughter found Moses in the bulrushes. Identity is built. It is built every day and every minute throughout the day.
Hamilton, Alexander
A promise must never be broken.
Hamilton,
Brutus (Quoted by Doherty, 1964)
It is one of the strange ironies of this strange life that those who work the hardest, who subject themselves to the strictest discipline, who give up certain pleasurable things in order to achieve a goal, are the happiest men. When you see 20 or 30 men line up for a distance race in some meet, don't pity them, don't feel sorry for them. Better envy them instead.
Hammarskjold, Dag
Never look down to test the ground before taking your next step; only he who keeps his eye fixed on the far horizon will find the right road.
Hari, Mata
The dance is a poem of which each movement is a word.
Harris, Sydney J. (1917-1986), Journalist
A
truly successful personality knows how to overcome the past, use the present,
and prepare for the future—but unless we can first surmount the past, we
cannot effectively cope with either the present or the future.
Never take the advice of someone who has not had your kind of trouble.
The commonest fallacy among women is that simply having children makes one a mother—which is as absurd as believing that having a piano makes one a musician.
The three hardest
tasks in the world are neither physical feats nor intellectual achievement, but
moral acts:
To
return love for hate,
To
include the excluded, and
To
say, "I was wrong."
Do not offer advice which has not been seasoned by your own performance.
Treat the other man's faith gently; it is all he has to believe with. His mind was created for his own thoughts, not yours or mine.
Hawes, Joel
You
may be whatever you resolve to be. Determine
to be something in the world, and you will be something.
"I cannot" never accomplished anything; "I will try"
has wrought wonders.
Happiness
is as a butterfly which, when pursued, is always beyond your grasp,
but which if you will sit down quietly, may alight upon you.
Hazlitt,
William
Prosperity is a great teacher; adversity is a greater one. Possession pampers the mind; privation trains and strengthens it.
Be not too fond of argument. . . . Rather suggest what remarks may have occurred to you on a subject than aim at dictating your opinions to others or at defending yourself on all points. You will learn more by agreeing in the main with others and entering into their trains of thinking, than by contradicting and urging them to extremities.
Be
not in haste to marry, nor to engage your affections, where there is no
probability of a return. Do not
fancy every woman you see the heroine of a romance . . . Avoid this error as
you would shrink back from a precipice. All
your fine sentiments and romantic notions will (of themselves) make no more
impression on one of these delicate creatures, as on a piece of marble.
Their soft bosoms are steel to your amorous refinements, if you have no
other pretensions. It
is not what you think of them that determines their choice, but what they think
of you.
Hearst, William Randolph (1863-1951),
publisher
You must keep your mind on the objective, not on the obstacle.
Hein, Piet
Whenever
you’re called on to make up your mind,
And you’re hampered by not having any,
The simplest way to solve the dilemma you’ll find,
Is simply by flipping a penny.
No, not so that chance shall decide the affair,
As you’re passively standing there moping.
But as soon as the penny is up in the air,
You’ll suddenly know what you’re hoping.
- Grooks
Hellman, Lillian (1907-1984), playwright
It
is best to act with confidence, no matter how little right you have to it.
Hemingway, Earnest
When people talk, listen completely. Most people never listen.
Hemingway, Mary (Mrs. Ernest)
Worry a little bit every day and in a lifetime you will lose a couple of years. If something is wrong, fix it if you can. But train yourself not to worry. Worry never fixes anything.
Heraclitus
A man's character is his fate.
Herbert, George
Good words are worth much, and cost little.
Love and a cough cannot be hid.
Herold, Don
Don't ever slam the door; you might want to go back.
Hickson
'Tis
a lesson you should heed,
Try, try again;
If
at first you don't succeed,
Try, try again;
Then
your courage should appear,
For,
if you will persevere,
You
will conquer, never fear;
Try, try again.
Hightower, Cullen
Strangers are what friends are made of.
Hillel
If I am not for myself, who will be for me?
Effort only fully releases its reward after a person refuses to quit.
Hills, Burton
Happiness is not a destination. It is a method of life.
Hoffer, Eric (1902–83), U.S. philosopher.
Our
credulity is greatest concerning the things we know least about. And since we
know least about ourselves, we are ready to believe all that is said about us.
Hence the mysterious power of both flattery and calumny.
- The Passionate
State of Mind, aph. 128 (1955). In the aphorism following, Hoffer
added: “It is thus with most of us: we are what other people say we are.
We know ourselves chiefly by hearsay.”
Holden, Robert,
writer
No amount of self-improvement can make up for a lack of self-acceptance.
Holmes, Oliver Wendell
To obtain a man's opinion of you, make him mad.
To fight out a war, you must believe something and want something with all your might. So must you do to carry anything else to an end worth reaching. More than that, you must be willing to commit yourself to a course, perhaps a long and hard one, without being able to foresee exactly where you will come out.
Don't flatter yourself that friendship authorizes you to say disagreeable things to your intimates. The nearer you come into relation with a person, the more necessary do tact and courtesy become. Except in cases of necessity, which are rare, leave your friend to learn unpleasant things from his enemies; they are ready enough to tell them.
Honda, Soichiro Founder, Honda Motor Corporation
Success is 99 percent failure.
Hood, Paxton
Be as careful of the books you read, as of the company you keep; for your habits and character will be as much influenced by the former as by the latter.
Hood, Ted, America’s Cup winner
Because
it hasn’t been done before, doesn’t mean it can’t be done.
Those who are afraid to make a mistake will never make a significant
achievement.
- The Most Important Thing I Know, Lorne A. Adrain
Hope, Bob, Entertainer
I have seen what a laugh can do. It can transform almost unbearable tears into something bearable, even hopeful.
Horace
Dare to be wise; begin! He who postpones the hour of living rightly is like the rustic who waits for the river to run out before he crosses.
Carpe diem. (Seize the day)
Consider
well what your strength is equal to, and what exceeds your ability.
Horatius
Carpe diem." (Seize the day.)
Hoyt
If
you have a friend worth loving,
Love him. Yes, and let him know
That
you love him, ere life's evening
Tinge his brow with sunset glow.
Why
should good words ne'er be said
Of
a friend till he is dead?
Hubbard, Elbert
Get happiness out of your work or you may never know what happiness is.
Hugo, Victor
The supreme happiness in life is the conviction that we are loved.
Hunt, Leigh
Whenever evil befalls us, we ought to ask ourselves, after the first suffering, how we can turn it into good. So shall we take occasion, from one bitter root, to raise perhaps many flowers.
Huston, John
Don't choose a profession just for money. Choose a profession a you would choose a wife—for love and for money.
Huxley
Make up your mind to act decidedly and take the consequences. No good is ever done in this world by hesitation.
Perhaps
the most valuable result of all education is the ability to make yourself do the
thing you have to do when it ought to be done whether you like it or not.
It is the first lesson that ought to be learned and however early a
person’s training begins, it is probably the last lesson a person learns
thoroughly.
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