Edward Everett Hale Quotes

I will not refuse to do something that I can do.

I have a lot of responsibilities outside myself. I have a large family. I want to know I can always be helpful.

Whoever can, should.

You have to step up when your number is called.

I learned that you have a responsibility to do things when you can.

I know this... a man got to do what he got to do.

I shall do everything it becomes me to do.

Never mind your happiness; do your duty.

Never reach out your hand unless you're willing to extend an arm.

If someone as blessed as I am is not willing to clean out the barn, who will?

A man can do what he ought to do; and when he says he cannot, it is because he will not.

What one has to do usually can be done.

Everybody's got to do what they've got to do.

There are thousands willing to do great things for one willing to do a small thing.

It is our responsibilities, not ourselves, that we should take seriously.

Men do less than they ought, unless they do all that they can.

The march to our duty here, not merely to ourselves, but to our surroundings, must proceed. God wills it.

If I can help one person, why wouldn't I?

I am only one. But I am one. I cannot do everything. But I can do something. What I can do I ought to do. What I ought to do I will do

My philosophy is that you do what you have to do.

I feel like I have to share whatever I can. You're culpable if you don't act.

I've learned enough times in life that saying something is completely different than acting upon it.

Helping others is the key duty for everyone on this earth who is remotely capable to do so.

Duty, then is the sublimest word in our language. Do your duty in all things. You cannot do more; you should never wish to do less.