It is not what we read, but what we remember, that makes us learned. It is not what we intend, but what we do that makes us useful. It is not a few faint wishes, but a life long struggle, that makes us valiant.
HENRY WARD BEECHEREvery man should be born again on the first day of January. Start with a fresh page
More Henry Ward Beecher Quotes
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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.
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See to it that each hour’s feelings, and thoughts, and actions are pure and true; then will your life be such.
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Spreading Christianity abroad is sometimes an excuse for not having it at home.
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Everyone has influence, for good or bad, upon others.
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Every artist dips his brush in his own soul, and paints his own nature into his pictures.
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No coffee can be good in the mouth that does not first send a sweet offering of odor to the nostrils.
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Christianity is simply the ideal form of manhood represented to us by Jesus Christ.
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Home should be the center of joy, equatorial and tropical.
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Men’s best successes come after their disappointments.
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No matter what looms ahead, if you can eat today, enjoy today, mix good cheer with friends today enjoy it and bless God for it.
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The head learns new things, but the heart forever practices old experiences.
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To become an able and successful man in any profession, three things are necessary, nature, study and practice.
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A man in the right, with God on his side, is in the majority, though he be alone, for God is multitudinous above all populations of the earth.
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You have come into a hard world. I know of only one easy place in it, and that is the grave.
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Gratitude is the fairest blossom which springs from the soul.
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