Some men are like pyramids, which are very broad where they touch the ground, but grow narrow as they reach the sky.
HENRY WARD BEECHERTroubles are often the tools by which God fashions us for better things.
More Henry Ward Beecher Quotes
-
-
Greatness lies not in being strong, but in the right use of strength.
HENRY WARD BEECHER -
Home should be the center of joy, equatorial and tropical.
HENRY WARD BEECHER -
Do not be afraid of defeat. You are never so near victory as when you are defeated in a good cause.
HENRY WARD BEECHER -
Every young man would do well to remember that all successful business stands on the foundation of morality.
HENRY WARD BEECHER -
The first hour of the morning is the rudder of the day.
HENRY WARD BEECHER -
Joy is more divine than sorrow, for joy is bread and sorrow is medicine.
HENRY WARD BEECHER -
There is no friendship, no love, like that of the parent for the child.
HENRY WARD BEECHER -
Blessed be the man whose work drives him. Something must drive men; and if it is wholesome industry, they have no time for a thousand torments and temptations.
HENRY WARD BEECHER -
The art of being happy lies in the power of extracting happiness from common things.
HENRY WARD BEECHER -
A thoughtful mind, when it sees a Nation’s flag, sees not the flag only, but the Nation itself; and whatever may be its symbols, its insignia, he reads chiefly in the flag the Government, the principles, the truths, the history which belongs to the Nation that sets it forth.
HENRY WARD BEECHER -
Some people are proud of their humility.
HENRY WARD BEECHER -
Spreading Christianity abroad is sometimes an excuse for not having it at home.
HENRY WARD BEECHER -
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 -
The mother’s heart is the child’s schoolroom.
HENRY WARD BEECHER -
If a man can have only one kind of sense, let him have common sense. If he has that and uncommon sense too, he is not far from genius.
HENRY WARD BEECHER -
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 -
No grace can save any man unless he helps himself.
HENRY WARD BEECHER -
The difference between perseverance and obstinacy is that one comes from a strong will, and the other from a strong won’t.
HENRY WARD BEECHER -
The law is a battery, which protects all that is behind it, but sweeps with destruction all that is outside.
HENRY WARD BEECHER -
See to it that each hour’s feelings, and thoughts, and actions are pure and true; then will your life be such.
HENRY WARD BEECHER -
Your greatest pleasure is that which rebounds from hearts that you have made glad.
HENRY WARD BEECHER -
We are but a point, a single comma, and God is the literature of eternity.
HENRY WARD BEECHER -
There is a power in the human mind to see things as they are but there is equally a power to see things as they might be.
HENRY WARD BEECHER -
To become an able and successful man in any profession, three things are necessary, nature, study and practice.
HENRY WARD BEECHER -
Christianity is simply the ideal form of manhood represented to us by Jesus Christ.
HENRY WARD BEECHER -
The meanest thing in the world is the devil.
HENRY WARD BEECHER