Henry Ward Beecher famous quotes

We should not judge people by their peak of excellence; but by the distance they have traveled from the point where they started.
-- Henry Ward Beecher

#Leadership #Wisdom #Distance

A Christian is nothing but a sinful man who has put himself to school for Christ for the honest purpose of becoming better.
-- Henry Ward Beecher

#Christian #War #School

It's easier to go down a hill than up it but the view is much better at the top.
-- Henry Ward Beecher

#Motivational #Graduation #Perseverance

We never know the love of a parent till we become parents ourselves.
-- Henry Ward Beecher

#Love #Inspirational #Family

Hold yourself responsible for a higher standard than anybody expects of you. Never excuse yourself.
-- Henry Ward Beecher

#Inspirational #Strength #Success

Blessed are the happiness makers. Blessed are they who know how to shine on one's gloom with their cheer.
-- Henry Ward Beecher

#Happiness #Cheer #Blessed

A person without a sense of humor is like a wagon without springs. It's jolted by every pebble on the road.
-- Henry Ward Beecher

#Inspirational #Motivational #Attitude

The art of being happy lies in the power of extracting happiness from common things.
-- Henry Ward Beecher

#Happiness #Happy #Art

Men's best successes come after their disappointments.
-- Henry Ward Beecher

#Inspirational #Inspiring #Disappointment

Every tomorrow has two handles. We can take hold of it with the handle of anxiety or the handle of faith.
-- Henry Ward Beecher

#Motivational #Faith #Future

Of all the music that reached farthest into heaven, it is the beating of a loving heart.
-- Henry Ward Beecher

#Love #Life #Friendship

Troubles are often the tools by which God fashions us for better things.
-- Henry Ward Beecher

#Inspirational #Fashion #War

Greatness lies, not in being strong, but in the right using of strength; and strength is not used rightly when it serves only to carry a man above his fellows for his own solitary glory. He is the greatest whose strength carries up the most hearts by the attraction of his own.
-- Henry Ward Beecher

#Strength #Being Strong #Loneliness

What a pity flowers can utter no sound!-A singing rose, a whispering violet, a murmuring honeysuckle ... oh, what a rare and exquisite miracle would these be!
-- Henry Ward Beecher

#Music #Flower #Rose

In this world it is not what we take up, but what we give up, that makes us rich.
-- Henry Ward Beecher

#Motivational #Success #Giving Up

There is no friendship, no love, like that of the parent for the child.
-- Henry Ward Beecher

#Love #Daughter #Children

Do not be afraid of defeat. You are never so near to victory as when defeated in a good cause.
-- Henry Ward Beecher

#Victory #Causes #Defeat

The sun does not shine for a few trees and flowers, but for the wide world's joy.
-- Henry Ward Beecher

#Love #Positive #Summer

God asks no man whether he will accept life. That is not the choice. You must take it. The only choice is how.
-- Henry Ward Beecher

#Life #Success #Men

He is rich or poor according to what he is, not according to what he has.
-- Henry Ward Beecher

#Happiness #Happy #Appreciation

Gratitude is the fairest blossom which springs from the soul.
-- Henry Ward Beecher

#Inspirational #Life #Thankful

Every man should be born again on the first day of January. Start with a fresh page. Take up one hole more in the buckle if necessary, or let down one, according to circumstances; but on the first of January let every man gird himself once more, with his face to the front, and take no interest in the things that were and are past.
-- Henry Ward Beecher

#Happiness #New Year #Past

Law represents the effort of man to organize society; governments, the efforts of selfishness to overthrow liberty.
-- Henry Ward Beecher

#Selfish #Men #Law

God pardons like a mother, who kisses the offense into everlasting forgiveness.
-- Henry Ward Beecher

#Mother #War #Kissing

The philosophy of one century is the common sense of the next.
-- Henry Ward Beecher

#Wisdom #Philosophy #War

No man is sane who does not know how to be insane on proper occasions.
-- Henry Ward Beecher

#War #Men #Insanity

We never know how much one loves till we know how much he is willing to endure and suffer for us; and it is the suffering element that measures love. The characters that are great must, of necessity, be characters that shall be willing, patient and strong to endure for others. To hold our nature in the willing service of another is the divine idea of manhood, of the human character.
-- Henry Ward Beecher

#Christian #Strong #Character

To array a man's will against his sickness is the supreme art of medicine.
-- Henry Ward Beecher

#Art #War #Get Well Soon

The dog was created specially for children. He is a god of frolic.
-- Henry Ward Beecher

#Dog #Children

If we would have anything of benefit, we must earn it, and earning it become shrewd, inventive, ingenious, active, enterprising.
-- Henry Ward Beecher

#Work #Benefits #Earning

God bless the good-natured, for they bless everybody else.
-- Henry Ward Beecher

#God Bless #Bless #Good Nature

It is not well for a man to pray cream and live skim milk.
-- Henry Ward Beecher

#Prayer #War #Men

An oyster, that marvel of delicacy, that concentration of sapid excellence, that mouthful bwefore all other mouthfuls, who first had faith to believe it, and courage to execute? The exterior is not persuasive.
-- Henry Ward Beecher

#Believe #Oysters #Excellence

He is greatest whose strength carries up the most hearts by the attraction of his own.
-- Henry Ward Beecher

#Strength #Leadership #War

The ability to convert ideas to things is the secret of outward success.
-- Henry Ward Beecher

#Inspirational #Life #Success

A mother has, perhaps, the hardest earthly lot; and yet no mother worthy of the name ever gave herself thoroughly for her child who did not feel that, after all, she reaped what she had sown.
-- Henry Ward Beecher

#Mother #Children #Names

If anyone, then, asks me the meaning of our flag, I say to him - it means just what Concord and Lexington meant; what Bunker Hill meant; which was, in short, the rising up of a valiant young people against an old tyranny to establish the most momentous doctrine that the world had ever known - the right of men to their own selves and to their liberties.
-- Henry Ward Beecher

#Veterans Day #Mean #Men

A law is valuable not because it is law, but because there is right in it.
-- Henry Ward Beecher

#Law #Lawyer #Valuable

What a mother sings to the cradle goes all the way down to the coffin.
-- Henry Ward Beecher

#Mother #War #Way

Poverty is very good in poems but very bad in the house; very good in maxims and sermons but very bad in practical life.
-- Henry Ward Beecher

#House #Poverty #Very Good

The advertisements in a newspaper are more full knowledge in respect to what is going on in a state or community than the editorial columns are.
-- Henry Ward Beecher

#Community #States #Newspapers

The human soul is God's treasury, out of which he coins unspeakable riches.
-- Henry Ward Beecher

#Soul #Coins #Riches

If any man is rich and powerful he comes under the law of God by which the higher branches must take the burnings of the sun, and shade those that are lower; by which the tall trees must protect the weak plants beneath them.
-- Henry Ward Beecher

#Powerful #Men #Law

That endless book, the newspaper, is our national glory.
-- Henry Ward Beecher

#Book #Glory #Newspapers

There are many persons who look on Sunday as a sponge to wipe out the sins of the week
-- Henry Ward Beecher

#Sunday #Looks #Wipe

Newspapers are the schoolmasters of the common people.
-- Henry Ward Beecher

#People #Common #Newspapers

That energy which makes a child hard to manage is the energy which afterwards makes him a manager of life.
-- Henry Ward Beecher

#Children #Energy #Manage

A man without self-restraint is like a barrel without hoops, and tumbles to pieces.
-- Henry Ward Beecher

#Men #Self #Pieces

Good-humor makes all things tolerable
-- Henry Ward Beecher

#Good Humor

It usually takes a hundred years to make a law, and then, after it has done its work; it usually takes a hundred years to get rid of it.
-- Henry Ward Beecher

#Years #Law #Done

The power of hiding ourselves from one another is mercifully given, for men are wild beasts, and would devour one another but for this protection.
-- Henry Ward Beecher

#Power #Men #Protection

Where is human nature so weak as in the bookstore?
-- Henry Ward Beecher

#Inspirational #Funny #Book

I have known many an instance of a man writing a letter and forgetting to sign his name, but this is the only instance I have ever known of a man signing his name and forgetting to write the letter.
-- Henry Ward Beecher

#Writing #Men #Names

Next to ingratitude the most painful thing to bear is gratitude.
-- Henry Ward Beecher

#Gratitude #Pain #War

They hover as a cloud of witnesses above this Nation.
-- Henry Ward Beecher

#Memorial Day #Clouds #Memorial

Defeat is a school in which truth always grows strong.
-- Henry Ward Beecher

#Strong #School #Defeat

Are they dead that yet speak louder than we can speak, and a more universal language? Are they dead that yet act? Are they dead that yet move upon society and inspire the people with nobler motives and more heroic patriotism?
-- Henry Ward Beecher

#Military #Moving #People

Beware of him who hates the laugh of a child.
-- Henry Ward Beecher

#Laughter #Children #Hate

Faith is spiritualized imagination.
-- Henry Ward Beecher

#Faith #Imagination

We go to the grave of a friend saying, "A man is dead," but angels throng about him saying, "A man is born."
-- Henry Ward Beecher

#Angel #Men #Born

A thoughtful mind, when it sees a Nation's flag, sees not the flag only, but the Nation itself
-- Henry Ward Beecher

#Thoughtful #Mind #Flags

Remember God's bounty in the year. String the pearls of His favor. Hide the dark parts, except so far as they are breaking out in light! Give this one day to thanks, to joy, to gratitude!
-- Henry Ward Beecher

#Gratitude #Dark #Light

A man's character is the reality of himself; his reputation, the opinion others have formed about him; character resides in him, reputation in other people; that is the substance, this is the shadow.
-- Henry Ward Beecher

#War #Character #Reality

I never knew how to worship until I knew how to love.
-- Henry Ward Beecher

#Love #Crush #Girlfriend

Flowers are the sweetest things God ever made and forgot to put a soul into.
-- Henry Ward Beecher

#Nature #Flower #Garden

We are always on the anvil; by trials God is shaping us for higher things.
-- Henry Ward Beecher

#War #Adversity #Religion

A man that does not know how to be angry does not know how to be good.
-- Henry Ward Beecher

#Life #Anger #Men

The worst thing in this world, next to anarchy, is government.
-- Henry Ward Beecher

#Government #World #Anarchy

The true secret of giving advice is, after you have honestly given it, to be perfectly indifferent whether it is taken or not, and never persist in trying to set people right.
-- Henry Ward Beecher

#Life And Love #Taken #People

The Church is not a gallery for the exhibition of eminent Christians, but a school for the education of imperfect ones.
-- Henry Ward Beecher

#Christian #War #School

Young love is a flame; very pretty, often very hot and fierce, but still only light and flickering. The love of the older and disciplined heart is as coals, deep-burning, unquenchable.
-- Henry Ward Beecher

#Love #Dream #Stay Strong

To become an able and successful man in any profession, three things are necessary, nature, study and practice.
-- Henry Ward Beecher

#Success #Nature #Men

The mother's heart is the child's schoolroom.
-- Henry Ward Beecher

#Family #Mom #Mother

The real man is one who always finds excuses for others, but never excuses himself.
-- Henry Ward Beecher

#Real #Failure #Men

Our days are a kaleidoscope. Every instant a change takes place in the contents. New harmonies, new contrasts, new combinations of every sort. Nothing ever happens twice alike. The most familiar people stand each moment in some new relation to each other, to their work, to surrounding objects. The most tranquil house, with the most serene inhabitants, living upon the utmost regularity of system, is yet exemplifying infinite diversities.
-- Henry Ward Beecher

#Change #People #Diversity

Pride slays thanksgiving, but a humble mind is the soil out of which thanks naturally grow. A proud man is seldom a grateful man, for he never thinks he gets as much as he deserves.
-- Henry Ward Beecher

#Life #Thanksgiving #Grateful

Good nature is worth more than knowledge, more than money, more than honor, to the persons who possess it.
-- Henry Ward Beecher

#Happiness #Wisdom #Nature

The unthankful heart... discovers no mercies; but let the thankful heart sweep through the day and, as the magnet finds the iron, so it will find, in every hour, some heavenly blessings!
-- Henry Ward Beecher

#Thanksgiving #Gratitude #Optimistic

Tears are often the telescope by which men see far into heaven.
-- Henry Ward Beecher

#Inspirational #Life #Positive

Our best successes often come after our greatest disappointments.
-- Henry Ward Beecher

#Inspiring #Disappointment #Failure

Love cannot endure indifference. It needs to be wanted. Like a lamp, it needs to be fed out of the oil of another's heart, or its flame burns low.
-- Henry Ward Beecher

#Love #Heart #Oil

The greatest architect and the one most needed is hope.
-- Henry Ward Beecher

#Optimism #Architect #Needed

Laughter is day, and sobriety is night; a smile is the twilight that hovers gently between both, more bewitching than either.
-- Henry Ward Beecher

#Happiness #Smile #Laughter

Clothes and manners do not make the man; but when he is made, they greatly improve his appearance.
-- Henry Ward Beecher

#Fashion #Men #Clothes

If a man cannot be a Christian in the place where he is, he cannot be a Christian anywhere.
-- Henry Ward Beecher

#Christian #Men

Every young man would do well to remember that all successful business stands on the foundation of morality.
-- Henry Ward Beecher

#Business #Motherhood #Successful

The dog is the god of frolic.
-- Henry Ward Beecher

#Dog #War #Animal

Repentance is another name for aspiration.
-- Henry Ward Beecher

#Names #Repentance #Aspiration

Every artist dips his brush in his own soul, and paints his own nature into his pictures.
-- Henry Ward Beecher

#Life #Beautiful #Christian

Children are unpredictable. You never know what inconsistency they are going to catch you in next.
-- Henry Ward Beecher

#Education #Children #Parenting

It is not the going out of port, but the coming in, that determines the success of a voyage.
-- Henry Ward Beecher

#Inspirational #Success #Congratulations

The head learns new things, but the heart forever practices old experiences.
-- Henry Ward Beecher

#Broken Heart #War #Practice

When God thought of mother, He must have laughed with satisfaction, and framed it quickly - so rich, so deep, so divine, so full of soul, power, and beauty, was the conception.
-- Henry Ward Beecher

#Mother #Soul #Satisfaction

In this world, full often, our joys are only the tender shadows which our sorrows cast.
-- Henry Ward Beecher

#Happiness #War #Joy

It is one of the severest tests of friendship to tell your friend his faults. So to love a man that you cannot bear to see a stain upon him, and to speak painful truth through loving words, that is friendship.
-- Henry Ward Beecher

#Friendship #Patience #Truth

Selfishness is that detestable vice which no one will forgive in others, and no one is without himself.
-- Henry Ward Beecher

#Selfish #War #Forgiving

A book is good company. It is full of conversation without loquacity. It comes to your longing with full instruction, but pursues you never.
-- Henry Ward Beecher

#Book #Longing #Good Company

The babe at first feeds upon the mother's bosom, but it is always on her heart.
-- Henry Ward Beecher

#Mother #War #Heart

Never forget what a person says to you when they are angry.
-- Henry Ward Beecher

#Inspirational #War #Never Forget

Compassion will cure more sins than condemnation.
-- Henry Ward Beecher

#Inspirational #Kindness #Compassion