Quotes by Author - H
I did it! I did it!
ski jumper Masahiko Harada, before breaking down in tears at the '98 olympics, helping Japan win a gold medal
There is nothing nobler or more admirable then when two people who see eye to eye keep house as man and wife, confounding their enemies and delighting their friends.
Homer
I'm glad I didn't have to fight in any war. I'm glad I didn't have to pick up a gun. I'm glad I didn't get killed or kill someboyd. I hope my kids enjoy the same lack of manhood.
Tom Hanks, star of
Saving Private Ryan
I like people who refuse to speak until they are ready to speak.
Lillian Hellman
Success seems to be connected with action. Successful men [people] keep moving. They make mistakes but they don't quit.
Conrad Hilton, founder, Hilton Hotels
You wouldn't worry what others think of you... If you realized how seldom they are!
Frances R. Hoffman
If you hold on to grudges and problems and think they're insurmountable (sometimes they are, by the way), then there's a tendency to let go of a relationship too soon.
Goldie Hawn
Life is to be lived. If you have to support yourself, you had bloody well find some way that is going to be interesting. And you don't do that by sitting around wondering about yourself.
Katharine Hepburn
To keep your character intact you cannot stoop to filthy acts. It makes it easier to stoop the next time.
Katharine Hepburn
When dealing with the insane, the best method is to pretend to be sane.
Hermann Hesse
Always listen to experts. They'll tell you what can't be done and why. Then do it.
Robert Heilein
Save a little money each month and at the end of the year you'll be surprised at how little you have.
Ernest Haskins
The decision to have a child is to know that your heart will forever walk around on the outside of your body.
Katharine Hadley
Drama is life with the dull bits cut out.
Alfred Hitchcock (1899-1980)
It isn't the burdens of today that drive men mad. It is the regrets over yesterday and the fear of tomorrow. Regret and fear are twin thieves that rob us of today.
Robert J. Hastings
Boys will be boys, and so will a lot of middle-aged men.
Kin Hubbard
Maybe this world is another planet's hell.
Aldous Huxley
One machine can do the work of fifty ordinary men. No machine can do the work of one extraordinary man.
Elbert Hubbard
It's a mistake to listen only with our ears. It's much more important to listen with the mind, the eyes, the body, and the heart. Unless you truly want to understand the other person, you'll never be able to listen.
Mike Herndon, writer
Space isn't remote at all. It's only an hour's drive away if our car could go straight upward.
Fred Hoyle
The expert at anything was once a beginner.
Hayes
We need a president who's fluent in at least one language.
Buck Henry
Nobody who ever gave his best regretted it.
George Halas (1895-1983), pro football coach
Fig Newton: The force required to accelerate a fig 39.37 inches/sec.
J. Hart
There is only one corner of the universe you can be certain of improving and that's your own self.
Aldous Huxley
Never measure the height of a mountain until you have reached the top. Then you will see how low it was.
Dag Hammarskjold (1905-1961), statesman
Man's mind stretched to a new idea never goes back to its original dimensions.
Oliver Wendell Holmes
The paperback is very interesting, but I find it will never replace a hardcover book - it makes a very poor doorstop.
Alfred Hitchcock
It is not worth an intelligent man's time to be in the majority. By definition, there are already enough people to do that.
G.H. Hardy
I just need enough to tide me over until I need more.
Bill Hoest
Caution is the eldest child of wisdom.
Victor Hugo
When I see everyone rushing in one direction, I know it's time to move the other way.
Armand Hammer (1898-1990), industrialist and philanthropist
Patience, persistence, and perspiration make an unbeatable combination for success.
Napoleon Hill, author
It's not the load that breaks you down; it's the way you carry it.
Lena Horne
The strongest oak of the forest is not the one that is protected from the storm and hidden from the sun. It's the one that stands in the open where it is compelled to struggle for its existence against the winds and rains and the scorching sun.
Napoleon Hill, writer (1883-1970)
I've seen what a good laugh can do. It can transform tears into hope.
Bob Hope, entertainer
Never continue dating anyone who is rude to the waiter.
Dan Henry
With a bit of courage and a dash of self-discipline, a small talent can go a long way.
Kitty Carlisle Hart, entertainer
When people are free to do as they please, they usually imitate each other.
Eric Hoffer
Genius may have it limitation, but stupidity is not thus handicapped.
Elbert Hubbard
I don't possess a lot of self-confidence. I'm an actor so I simply act confident every time I hit the stage. I am consumed with the fear of failing. Reaching deep down and finding confidence has made all my dreams come true.
Arsenio Hall
We can never be really prepared for that which is wholly new. We have to adjust ourselves, and every radical adjustment is a crisis in self-esteem; we undergo a test, we have to prove ourselves. It needs inordinate self-confidence to face drastic change without inner trembling.
Eric Hoffer (1902-1983), longshoreman and philosopher
Some things have to be believed to be seen.
Ralph Hodgson, on ESP
Don't make excuses. Make things happen. Make changes. Then make history.
Doug Hall
It is best to act with confidence, no matter how little right you have to it.
Lillian Hellman (1907-1984), playwright
To avoid criticism, do nothing, say nothing, be nothing.
Elbert Hubbard, writer/editor
Morality disconnected from faith as a rule turns nasty, even ceases to be very moral at all...
Sarah E. Hinlicky
If you don't make a total commitment to whatever you're doing, then you start looking to bail out the first time the boat starts leaking. It's tough enough getting that boat to shore with everybody rowing, let alone when a guy stands up and starts putting his jacket on.
Lou Holtz, college football coach
The nice thing about egotists is that they don't talk about other people.
Lucille S. Harper
Never explain - your friends do not need it and your enemies will not believe you anyway.
Elbert Hubbard
You can discover what your enemy fears most by observing the means he uses to frighten you.
Eric Hoffer
Every day you miss playing or practicing is one day longer it takes to be good.
Ben Hogan, golfer
Anyone who takes himself too seriously always runs the risk of looking ridiculuous; anyone who can consistently laugh at himself does not.
Vaclav Havel, Czech Republic president and playwright
The rung of a ladder was never meant to rest upon, but only to support you long enough to enable you to reach for something higher.
Thomas Henry Huxley (1825-1895), biologist/writer
Try to learn something about everything, and everything about something.
Thomas H. Huxley
You create your opportunities by asking for them.
Patty Hansen, author
Nobody owes anybody anything; it's up to each individual to set high standards for himself or herself, and to set about working hard and creating a solid future.
Katharine Hepburn
Life is something like this trumpet. If you don't put anything in it you don't get anything out. And that's the truth.
W.C. handy (1873-1958), composer
When we single women stop asking, "Why am I alone?" and start asking "Why am I here?" our whole world will change for the good.
Michelle McKinney Hammond
Ask yourself, What do I do that amazes people and I think is absolutely nothing? That thing is your gift.
Michelle McKinney Hammond
Life breaks us. And when we heal, we're stronger in the broken parts.
Ernest Hemingway (1899-1961), writer
A service project is a social event with a higher purpose.
Lynne Harwood
Easy reading is damned hard writing.
Nathaniel Hawthorne (1804-1864), writer
listen hard.
practice wellness.
play with abandon.
l a u g h
choose with no regret.
continue to learn.
appreciate your friends.
do what you love.
~ Live as if this is all there is. ~
Mary Ann Hershey
What a grand thing to be loved; what a grander thing still to love. The heart becomes heroic through passion. It is no longer composed of anything but what is pure; it no longer rests upon anything but what is elevated and great.
Victor Hugo, "Les Miserables"
The greatest mistake you can make in life is to be continually fearing you will make one.
Elbert G. Hubbard (1856-1915), American writer
Never mistake motion for action.
Ernest Hemingway
Thus to be independent of public opinion is the first formal condition of achieving anything great.
George W.F. Hagel, philosopher
There is honor in doing your best.
Orrin Hatch
Words are the soul's ambassadors, who go
Abroad upon her errands to and fro.
James Howell (1594-1666), writer
Do you love me because I'm beautiful, or am I beautiful because you love me?
Oscar Hammerstein II (1895-1960), lyricist
There would be no society if living together depending upon understanding each other.
Eric Hoffer (1902-1983), philosopher/author
Although gold dust is precious, when it gets in your eyes, it obstructs your vision.
Hsi-Tang
A man has to live with himself, and he should see to it that he always has good company.
Charles Evans Hughes (1862-1948), jurist
The heart is wiser than the intellect.
Josiah Holland, editor and author
The death of democracy is not likely to be an assassination from ambush. It will be a slow extinction from apathy, indifference, and undernourishment.
Robert Maynard Hutchins (1899-1977), educator
I never lose sight of the fact that just being is fun.
Katharine Hepburn, actress
Wake up every day and go through what you go through. But the beautiful moments that you share with people that you love, or even experience alone, are worth all of the pain and sorrow. Those moments should be cherished, and I think that's what music is all about -- to remind people of the beautiful moments that are in everybody's life.
Charlie Haden, Grammy-winning jazz artist
Live life for yourself and not a guy - any guy - in the whole world. And if something is bothering you, tell him immediately. Just talk about it, not fight.
Mandy Hooter
I am the master of my fate;
I am the captain of my soul.
William Earnest Henley, Invictus
Nothing is as simple as we hope it will be.
Jim Horning
Those who are lifting the world upward and onward are those who encourage more than criticize.
Elizabeth Harrison
Life in Lubbock, Texas has taught me two things. One is that God loves you and you're going to hell. The other is that sex is the most awful, filthy thing on earth and you should save it for someone you love.
Butch Hancock
Deep down, we remain human, very human, and have all the desires to love and be loved by one person.
Basil Hume (1923-1999), clergyman
Sometimes your joy is the source of your smile, but sometimes your smile can be the source of your joy.
Thich Nhat Hanh, Author and Buddhist Monk
Some fellows pay a compliment like they expect a receipt.
Kin Hubbard,humorist (1868-1930)
In times like these, it helps to recall that there have always been times like these.
Paul Harvey
Laughing at our mistakes can lengthen our own life.
Laughing at someone else's can shorten it.
Cullen Hightower
Love is that condition in which the happiness of another person is essential to your own.
Robert A. Heinlein
If there is no God, who pops up the next Kleenex?
Art Hoppe
People change and forget to tell each other.
Lillian Hellman (1905-1984), playwright
A moment's insight is sometimes worth a life's experience.
Oliver Wendell Holmes, physician/poet
We tend to fall in love with the things we think are true.
Dee W. Hock, founder and CEO Emeritus, Visa International
Winter is an etching, spring a watercolor, summer an oil painting, and autumn a mosaic of them all.
Stanley Horowitz
I don't mind what Congress does, as long as they don't do it in the streets and frighten the horses.
Victor Hugo
Words form the thread on which we string our experiences.
Aldous Huxley (1894-1963), writer
Love has nothing to do with what you are expecting to get - only with what you are expecting to give, which is everything.
Katharine Hepburn (1907-2003), actress
To do nothing is sometimes a good remedy.
Hippocrates (460-377 B.C.), physician
Doing what we were meant to do creates fun, excitement, and contentment in our lives, and invariably, in the lives of people around us. When you're excited about something, it's contagious.
Mark Victor Hansen
A cynic is not merely one who reads bitter lessons from the past, he is one who is prematurely disappointed in the future.
Sidney J. Harris
Trying to determine what is going on in the world by reading newspapers is like trying to tell the time by watching the second hand of a clock.
Ben Hecht
... wherever you go for the rest of your life, it stays with you, for Paris is a moveable feast.
Ernest Hemingway
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