Henry Ward Beecher on excellence
Henry Ward Beecher170 quotes“We should not judge people by their peak of excellence; but by the distance they have traveled from the point where they started.”
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Books are not made for furniture, but there is nothing else that so beautifully furnishes a house.
Henry Ward BeecherHenry Ward Beecher Walking humbly, you are more of a man than you were when you walked proudly.
Henry Ward BeecherHenry Ward Beecher I never knew how to worship until I knew how to love.
Henry Ward BeecherHenry Ward Beecher You are not called to be a canary in a cage. You are called to be an eagle, and to fly sun to sun, over continents.
Henry Ward BeecherHenry Ward Beecher In this world it is not what we take up, but what we give up, that makes us rich.
Henry Ward BeecherHenry Ward Beecher Laws and institutions, like clocks, must occasionally be cleaned, wound up, and set to true time.
Henry Ward BeecherHenry Ward Beecher Every young man would do well to remember that all successful business stands on the foundation of morality.
Henry Ward BeecherHenry Ward Beecher 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 BeecherHenry Ward Beecher No emotion, any more than a wave, can long retain its own individual form.
Henry Ward BeecherHenry Ward Beecher Death is the Christian’s vacation morning. School is out. It is time to go home.
Henry Ward BeecherHenry Ward Beecher It will not do to be saints at meeting and sinners everywhere else.
Henry Ward BeecherHenry Ward Beecher Education is only like good culture,–it changes the size, but not the sort.
Henry Ward BeecherHenry Ward Beecher Laws are not masters but servants, and he rules them who obey them.
Henry Ward BeecherHenry Ward Beecher Faith is spiritualized imagination.
Henry Ward BeecherHenry Ward Beecher 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 BeecherHenry Ward Beecher Gratitude is the fairest blossom which springs from the soul.
Henry Ward BeecherHenry Ward Beecher
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It takes a long time to bring excellence to maturity.
LivyLivy No one wants to be excelled by his relatives.
LivyLivy There may be one fault in a man that conceals a thousand qualities, or one excellence that conceals a thousand faults. The little indicates much.
Shams TabriziShams Tabrizi I don’t pretend there aren’t biological differences, but I don’t believe the desire for leadership is hardwired biology, not the desire to win or excel. I believe that it’s socialization, that we’re socializing our daughters to nurture and our boys to lead.
Sheryl SandbergSheryl Sandberg The excellence of the Church does not consist in multitude but in purity.
John CalvinJohn Calvin Learning is like mercury, one of the most powerful and excellent things in the world in skillful hands; in unskillful, the most mischievous.
Alexander PopeAlexander Pope A centre of excellence is, by definition, a place where second class people may perform first class work.
Michael FaradayMichael Faraday The noblest search is the search for excellence.
Lyndon B. JohnsonLyndon B. Johnson