Helen Hayes
Helen Hayes (October 10, 1900 March 17, 1993) was an American actress whose successful and award-winning career spanned almost 70 years. She was eventually to garner the nickname "First Lady of the American Theater", and was one of the few people who has won an Emmy, a Grammy, an Oscar and a Tony Award.
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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.
— Helen Hayes
Age is not important unless you're a cheese.
— Helen Hayes
We relish news of our heroes, forgetting that we are extraordinary to somebody too.
— Helen Hayes
The hardest years in life are those between ten and seventy.
— Helen Hayes
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.
— Helen Hayes
The truth is that there is only one terminal dignity -- love. And 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.
— Helen Hayes
If you rest, you rust.
— Helen Hayes
In the last states of a final illness, we need only the absence of pain and the presence of family.
— Helen Hayes