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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Children are unpredictable. You never know what inconsistency they are going to catch you in next.
Henry Ward BeecherHenry Ward Beecher Of all the music that reached farthest into heaven, it is the beating of a loving heart.
Henry Ward BeecherHenry Ward Beecher It is not in the nature of true greatness to be exclusive and arrogant.
Henry Ward BeecherHenry Ward Beecher 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 BeecherHenry Ward Beecher Home should be an oratorio of the memory, singing to all our after life melodies and harmonies of old-remembered joy.
Henry Ward BeecherHenry Ward Beecher Every man should be born again on the first day of January. Start with a fresh page
Henry Ward BeecherHenry Ward Beecher Intelligence increases mere physical ability one half. The use of the head abridges the labor of the hands.
Henry Ward BeecherHenry Ward Beecher A man who does not know how to be angry, does not know how to be good. Now and then a man should be shaken to the core with indignation over things evil.
Henry Ward BeecherHenry Ward Beecher The ability to convert ideas to things is the secret of outward success.
Henry Ward BeecherHenry Ward Beecher The sun does not shine for a few trees and flowers, but for the wide world’s joy.
Henry Ward BeecherHenry Ward Beecher Everyone has influence, for good or bad, upon others.
Henry Ward BeecherHenry Ward Beecher What I spent, I had; What I kept, I lost; What I gave, I have.
Henry Ward BeecherHenry Ward Beecher 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.
Henry Ward BeecherHenry Ward Beecher It’s easier to go down a hill than up it but the view is much better at the top.
Henry Ward BeecherHenry Ward Beecher Interest works night and day in fair weather and in foul. It gnaws at a man’s substance with invisible teeth.
Henry Ward BeecherHenry Ward Beecher He is rich or poor according to what he is, not according to what he has.
Henry Ward BeecherHenry Ward Beecher
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Excellence is not an act but a habit.
Rowan AtkinsonRowan Atkinson Life is like a play: it’s not the length, but the excellence of the acting that matters.
SenecaSeneca In the future, there will be opened a gateway and a road to a large and excellent science into which minds more piercing than mine shall penetrate to recesses still deeper.
Galileo GalileiGalileo Galilei Hence to fight and conquer in all your battles is not supreme excellence; supreme excellence consists in breaking the enemy’s resistance without fighting.
Sun TzuSun Tzu Ultimate excellence lies not in winning every battle, but in defeating the enemy without ever fighting.
Sun TzuSun Tzu Excellence is an art won by training and habituation.
AristotleAristotle Excellence at everything you can do can be achieved on if it is a habit.
Rowan AtkinsonRowan Atkinson Take full account of what Excellencies you possess, and in gratitude remember how you would hanker after them, if you had them not.
Marcus AureliusMarcus Aurelius