Henry Ward Beecher Quotes

• We should not judge people by their peak of excellence; but by the distance they have traveled from the point where they started.

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Leadership, Wisdom, Distance

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• Love is not a possession but a growth. The heart is a lamp with just oil enough to burn for an hour, and if there be no oil to put in again its light will go out. God's grace is the oil that fills the lamp of love.

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Heart, Love Is, Light

  Henry Ward Beecher (1895). “Metaphors, Similes and Other Characteristic Sayings of Henry Ward Beecher”

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• Hope is sweet-minded and sweet-eyed. It draws pictures; it weaves fancies; it fills the future with delight.

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Sweet, Delight, Fancy

  Henry Ward Beecher (1893). “The Original Plymouth Pulpit: Sermons from the Stenographic Reports by T.J. Ellinwood. September 1868 to September 1873”

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• Every tomorrow has two handles. We can take hold of it with the handle of anxiety or the handle of faith.

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Motivational, Faith, Future

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• 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

  Inspirational, Success, Perseverance

  "Proverbial Wisdom: Proverbs, Maxims and Ethical Sentences, of Interest to All Classes of Men". Book by Abram N. Coleman, p. 233, 1903.

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• No man can tell if he is rich or poor by turning to his ledger. It is the heart that makes a man rich. He is rich according to what he is, not according to what he has.

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Heart, Men, Rich Or Poor

  Henry Ward Beecher (1858). “Life Thoughts”, p.46

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• A person without a sense of humor is like a wagon without springs. It's jolted by every pebble on the road.

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Inspirational, Motivational, Attitude

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• Hold yourself responsible for a higher standard than anybody expects of you. Never excuse yourself.

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Inspirational, Strength, Success

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• There are more quarrels smothered by just shutting your mouth, and holding it shut, than by all the wisdom in the world.

  Henry Ward Beecher

  World, Mouths, Quarrels

  Henry Ward Beecher, Truman Jeremiah Ellinwood (1873). “The Sermons of Henry Ward Beecher in Plymouth Church, Brooklyn”

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• Greatness lies, not in being strong, but in the right using of strength; and strength is not used rightly when it serves only to carry a man above his fellows for his own solitary glory. He is the greatest whose strength carries up the most hearts by the attraction of his own.

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Strength, Being Strong, Loneliness

  Henry Ward Beecher (1858). “Life Thoughts”, p.33

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• “I can forgive, but I cannot forget,” is only another way of saying, “I will not forgive.”

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Inspirational, Motivational, Friendship

  "Gems of Truth & Beauty".

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• Don't look where you fall, but where you slipped.

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Wise, Fall, Looks

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• In this world it is not what we take up, but what we give up, that makes us rich.

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Motivational, Success, Giving Up

  Henry Ward Beecher, Edna Dean Proctor (1858). “Life Thoughts: Gathered from the Extemporaneous Discourses of Henry Ward Beecher”, p.19

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• I never knew an early-rising, hard-working, prudent man, careful of his earnings, and strictly honest who complained of bad luck.

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Humor, Good Luck, Hard Work

  Henry Ward Beecher (1850). “Industry and idleness: with causes of dishonesty : to which are appended six warnings”, p.23

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• It's easier to go down a hill than up it but the view is much better at the top.

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Motivational, Graduation, Perseverance

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• The art of being happy lies in the power of extracting happiness from common things.

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Inspirational, Life, Positive

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• What I spent, I had; What I kept, I lost; What I gave, I have.

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Sports, Motivational Sports, Teammate

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• The thankful heart will find, in every hour, some heavenly blessings.

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Thanksgiving, Gratitude, Heart

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• Our best successes often come after our greatest disappointments.

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Inspiring, Disappointment, Failure

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• We are always on the anvil; by trials God is shaping us for higher things.

  Henry Ward Beecher

  War, Adversity, Religion

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• Be a hard master to yourself - and be lenient to everybody else.

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Work, Discipline, Lenient

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• God puts the excess of hope in one man, in order that it may be a medicine to the man who is despondent.

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Hope, Men, Order

  Henry Ward Beecher (1871). “Lectures to young men, on various important subjects”, p.314

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• The little troubles and worries of life may be as stumbling blocks in our way, or we may make them stepping-stones to a nobler character and to Heaven. Troubles are often the tools by which God fashions us for better things.

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Fashion, Block, Character

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• Compassion will cure more sins than condemnation.

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Inspirational, Kindness, Compassion

  Henry Ward Beecher (1858). “Life Thoughts”, p.158

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• The first hour of the morning is the rudder of the day.

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Time, Morning, Motivation

  henry ward beecher (1858). “life thoughts,”, p.95

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