Helen Hayes Life Quotations

The hardest years in life are those between ten and seventy.

Mere longevity is a good thing for those who watch Life from the side lines. For those who play the game, an hour may be a year, a single day's work an achievement for eternity.

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

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.

If you rest, you rust.

An actress's life is so transitory-suddenly you're a building.