Top 915 Quotes & Sayings by Henry Ward Beecher
Explore popular quotes and sayings by an American priest Henry Ward Beecher.
Last updated on September 15, 2024.
The philosophy of one century is the common sense of the next.
Clothes and manners do not make the man; but, when he is made, they greatly improve his appearance.
A library is not a luxury but one of the necessities of life.
Of all the music that reached farthest into heaven, it is the beating of a loving heart.
There is no friendship, no love, like that of the parent for the child.
Gratitude is the fairest blossom which springs from the soul.
Our best successes often come after our greatest disappointments.
Flowers are the sweetest things God ever made and forgot to put a soul into.
It is not the going out of port, but the coming in, that determines the success of a voyage.
Love is the river of life in the world.
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.
We should not judge people by their peak of excellence; but by the distance they have traveled from the point where they started.
The difference between perseverance and obstinacy is that one comes from a strong will, and the other from a strong won't.
Compassion will cure more sins than condemnation.
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.
Laughter is day, and sobriety is night; a smile is the twilight that hovers gently between both, more bewitching than either.
To array a man's will against his sickness is the supreme art of medicine.
I never knew how to worship until I knew how to love.
The soul without imagination is what an observatory would be without a telescope.
Children are the hands by which we take hold of heaven.
In this world it is not what we take up, but what we give up, that makes us rich.
Now comes the mystery.
Every artist dips his brush in his own soul, and paints his own nature into his pictures.
The art of being happy lies in the power of extracting happiness from common things.
Every tomorrow has two handles. We can take hold of it with the handle of anxiety or the handle of faith.
It's easier to go down a hill than up it but the view is much better at the top.
It is the heart that makes a man rich. He is rich according to what he is, not according to what he has.
Every charitable act is a stepping stone toward heaven.
The mother's heart is the child's schoolroom.
To become an able and successful man in any profession, three things are necessary, nature, study and practice.
We are always on the anvil; by trials God is shaping us for higher things.
Tears are often the telescope by which men see far into heaven.
We sleep, but the loom of life never stops, and the pattern which was weaving when the sun went down is weaving when it comes up in the morning.
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!
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.
A book is good company. It is full of conversation without loquacity. It comes to your longing with full instruction, but pursues you never.
In this world, full often, our joys are only the tender shadows which our sorrows cast.
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.
Suffering is part of the divine idea.
Where is human nature so weak as in the bookstore?
The babe at first feeds upon the mother's bosom, but it is always on her heart.
A man's true state of power and riches is to be in himself.
Law represents the effort of man to organize society; governments, the efforts of selfishness to overthrow liberty.
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.
A person without a sense of humor is like a wagon without springs. It's jolted by every pebble on the road.
Hold yourself responsible for a higher standard than anybody expects of you. Never excuse yourself.
Riches are not an end of life, but an instrument of life.
The humblest individual exerts some influence, either for good or evil, upon others.
Success is full of promise till one gets it, and then it seems like a nest from which the bird has flown.
The dog is the god of frolic.
The Church is not a gallery for the exhibition of eminent Christians, but a school for the education of imperfect ones.
The worst thing in this world, next to anarchy, is government.
The real man is one who always finds excuses for others, but never excuses himself.
He is greatest whose strength carries up the most hearts by the attraction of his own.
Every man should keep a fair-sized cemetery in which to bury the faults of his friends.
We never know the love of a parent till we become parents ourselves.
I can forgive, but I cannot forget, is only another way of saying, I will not forgive. Forgiveness ought to be like a cancelled note - torn in two, and burned up, so that it never can be shown against one.
Selfishness is that detestable vice which no one will forgive in others, and no one is without himself.
The sun does not shine for a few trees and flowers, but for the wide world's joy.
The head learns new things, but the heart forever practices old experiences.
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