Theodore Hesburgh
Theodore Hesburgh
Theodore Martin Hesburgh, CSC, was a priest of the Congregation of Holy Cross, was president of the University of Notre Dame for 35 years. He is the namesake for TIAA–CREF's Hesburgh Award...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionReligious Leader
Date of Birth25 May 1917
CountryUnited States of America
decision principles decision-making
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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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.
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There's only one way to do it, ... That is to put yourself in the hands of the Holy Spirit and the Blessed Mother. You will see heartbreaks as well as days of great joy. There will be celebration as well as days of mourning in this church. But with the Holy Spirit behind you and the Holy Mother inspiring you, these will be great years.
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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.
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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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It is easier to exemplify values than teach them.
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You can't blow an uncertain trumpet.
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I'll have another beer. I'm not driving.
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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.
conflict theology
There is no conflict between science and theology, except where there is bad science or bad theology.
political voting politics
Voting is a civic sacrament.
distance hypocrite hypocrisy
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?
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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.