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acclaimed actress of stage and screen (1900-1993)

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Always aim for achievement, and forget about success.

– Helen Hayes

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Every human being on this earth is born with a tragedy, and it isn't original sin. He's born with the tragedy that he has to grow up. That he has to leave the nest, the security, and go out to do battle. He has to lose everything that is lovely and fight for a new loveliness of his own making, and it's a tragedy. A lot of people don't have the courage to do it.

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From your parents you learn love and laughter and how to put one foot before the other. But when books are opened you discover that you have wings.

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If you rest, you rust.

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Life ... would give her everything of consequence, life would shape her, not we. All we were good for was to make the introductions.

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My mother drew a distinction between achievement and success. She said that 'achievement is the knowledge that you have studied and worked hard and done the best that is in you. Success is being praised by others, and that's nice, too, but not as important or satisfying. Always aim for achievement and forget about success.'

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My mother drew a distinction between achievement and success. She said that achievement is the knowledge that you have studied and worked hard and done the best that is in you. Success is being praised by others. That is nice but not as important or satisfying. Always aim for achievement and forget about success.

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The story of a love is not important - what is important is that one is capable of love. It is perhaps the only glimpse we are permitted of eternity.

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There is only one terminal dignity -- love.

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There's a little vanity chair that Charlie gave me the first Christmas we knew each other. I'll not be parting with that, nor our bed-the four-poster-I'll be needing that to die in.

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We relish news of our heroes, Forgetting that we are extraordinary to somebody too.

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When Charles first saw our child Mary, he said all the proper things for a new father. He looked upon the poor little red thing and blurted, She's more beautiful than the Brooklyn Bridge.

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