Henry Ward Beecher Quotes

• 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.

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  Strength, Being Strong, Loneliness

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

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• 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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  Leadership, Wisdom, Distance

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

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  Inspirational, Strength, Success

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• It is not work that kills men; it is worry. Work is healthy; you can hard put more upon a man than he can bear. Worry is rust upon the blade. It is not the revolution that destroys the machinery, but the friction.

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  Fear, Health, Men

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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.

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  Motivational, Faith, Future

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

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  Motivational, Graduation, Perseverance

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• 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.

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  Love, Valentines Day, Dream

  Henry Ward Beecher, Augusta Moore (1859). “Notes from Plymouth Pulpit: A Collection of Memorable Passages from the Discourses of Henry Ward Beecher, with a Sketch of Mr. Beecher and the Lecture Room”, p.41

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• A Christian is nothing but a sinful man who has put himself to school for Christ for the honest purpose of becoming better.

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  Christian, War, School

  Henry Ward Beecher (1859). “Summer in the soul; or, Views and experiences”, p.239

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• 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.

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  Struggle, Long, Wish

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• The Church is not a gallery for the exhibition of eminent Christians, but a school for the education of imperfect ones.

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  Funny, Christian, Education

  Henry Ward Beecher (1858). “Life Thoughts”, p.140

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• Blessed are they who know how to shine on one's gloom with their cheer.

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  Happiness, Cheer, Blessed

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• The most dangerous people are the ignorant.

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  War, People, Ignorant

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

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  Time, Morning, Motivation

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

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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.

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  Inspirational, Motivational, Attitude

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• Of all the music that reached farthest into heaven, it is the beating of a loving heart.

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  Love, Life, Friendship

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• We never know how much one loves till we know how much he is willing to endure and suffer for us; and it is the suffering element that measures love. The characters that are great must, of necessity, be characters that shall be willing, patient and strong to endure for others. To hold our nature in the willing service of another is the divine idea of manhood, of the human character.

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  Christian, Strong, Character

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• Greatness lies not in being strong, but in the right use of strength.

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  Inspirational, Strength, Success

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

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• People may talk about the equality of the sexes! They are not equal. The silent smile of a sensible, loving woman will vanquish ten men.

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  Sex, Women, People

  Henry Ward Beecher (2009). “Star Papers”, p.254, Applewood Books

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• The Bible is God's chart for you to steer by, to keep you from the bottom of the sea, and to show you where the harbor is, and how to reach it without running on rocks or bars.

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  Running, Hard Times, Rocks

  Henry Ward Beecher (1871). “Morning and Evening Exercises: Selected from the Published and Unpublished Writings”, p.72

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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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  Cheer, Matter, Today

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• Our government is built upon the vote. But votes that are purchasable are quicksands, and a government built on them stands upon corruption and revolution.

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  Government, Revolution, Vote

  Henry Ward Beecher, William Drysdale (1887). “Proverbs from Plymouth Pulpit”

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

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  Inspirational, Life, Positive

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• You can imagine thistle-down so light that when you run after it your running motion would drive it away from you, and that the more you tried to catch it the faster it would fly from your grasp. And it should be with every man, that, when he is chased by troubles, they, chasing, shall raise him higher and higher.

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  Running, Men, Light

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• It is a view of God that compensates every thing else, and enables the soul to rest in His bosom. How, when the child in the night screams with terror, hearing sounds that it knows not of, is that child comforted and put to rest? Is it by a philosophical explanation that the sounds were made by the rats in the partition? Is it by imparting entomological knowledge? No; it is by the mother taking the child in her lap, and singing sweetly to it, and rocking it. And the child thinks nothing of the explanation, but only of the mother.

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  Trust, Mother, Children

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• Troubles are often the tools by which God fashions us for better things.

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  Inspirational, Fashion, War

  Henry Ward Beecher (1858). “Life Thoughts”, p.58

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