The very essence of leadership is that you have to have vision. You can't blow an uncertain trumpet.
Theodore HesburghFaith is not an easy virtue; but, in the broad world of a person's total voyage through time to eternity, faith is not only a gracious companion, but an essential guide.
Theodore HesburghMy basic principle is that you don't make decisions because they are cheap; you make them because they're right.
Theodore HesburghA decade after an average athlete graduates, everyone will have forgotten when and where he played. But every time he speaks, everyone will know whether he was educated.
Theodore HesburghThere is no academic virtue in playing mediocre football and no academic vice in winning a game that by all odds one should lose...There has indeed been a surrender at Notre Dame, but it is a surrender to excellence on all fronts, and in this we hope to rise above ourselves with the help of God.
Theodore Hesburgh