Henry Ward Beecher quotes.
All 25 quotations by Henry Ward Beecher in our collection.
“It is in the heart that makes a man rich. He is rich according to what he is, not according to what he has.”
“There are more quarrels smothered by just shutting your mouth, and holding it shut, than by all the wisdom in the world.”
“Greatness lies not in being strong, but in the right use of strength.”
“Our best successes often come after our greatest disappointments.”
“No man is more cheated than the selfish man.”
“He is 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, jolted by every pebble in the road.”
“The mother's heart is the child's schoolroom.”
“One's best success comes after their greatest disappointments.”
“Hold yourself responsible for a higher standard than anybody expects of you. Never excuse yourself.”
“Gratitude is the fairest blossom which springs from the soul.”
“There is no friendship, no love, like that of the parent for the child.”
“Success is full of promise till one gets it, and then it seems like a nest from which the bird has flown.”
“The art of being happy lies in the power of extracting happiness from common things.”
“We never know the love of a parent till we become parents ourselves.”
“The unthankful heart discovers no mercies; but the thankful heart 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.”
“Hold yourself responsible for a higher standard than anybody else expects of you.”
“It's easier to go down a hill than up it but the view is much better at the top.”
“Every young man would do well to remember that all successful business stands on the foundation of morality.”
“God appoints our graces to be nurses to other men's weaknesses.”
“A person without a sense of humor is like a wagon without springs. It's jolted by every pebble on the road.”
“The soul without imagination is what an observatory would be without a telescope.”
“The worst thing in this world, next to anarchy, is government.”
“Every artist dips his brush in his own soul, and paints his own nature into his pictures.”
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