Famous Quotes

Quotes by Henry Ward Beecher

• A book is good company. It is full of conversation without loquacity. It comes to your longing with full instruction, but pursues you never.
• A man that does not know how to be angry does not know how to be good.
• A man's true state of power and riches is to be in himself.
• A person without a sense of humor is like a wagon without springs. It's jolted by every pebble on the road.
• All men are tempted. There is no man that lives that can't be broken down, provided it is the right temptation, put in the right spot.
• Books are not men and yet they stay alive.
• Every artist dips his brush in his own soul, and paints his own nature into his pictures.
• Every charitable act is a stepping stone toward heaven.
• Every tomorrow has two handles. We can take hold of it with the handle of anxiety or the handle of faith.
• Every young man would do well to remember that all successful business stands on the foundation of morality.
• Faith is spiritualized imagination.
• Flowers are the sweetest things God ever made and forgot to put a soul into.
• Gambling with cards or dice or stocks is all one thing. It's getting money without giving an equivalent for it.
• God appoints our graces to be nurses to other men's weaknesses.
• God asks no man whether he will accept life. That is not the choice. You must take it. The only choice is how.
• God made man to go by motives, and he will not go without them, any more than a boat without steam or a balloon without gas.
• God pardons like a mother, who kisses the offense into everlasting forgiveness.
• Good nature is worth more than knowledge, more than money, more than honor, to the persons who possess it.
• Gratitude is the fairest blossom which springs from the soul.
• 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.
• He is greatest whose strength carries up the most hearts by the attraction of his own.
• Hold yourself responsible for a higher standard than anybody expects of you. Never excuse yourself.
• I can forgive, but I cannot forget, is only another way of saying, I will not forgive. Forgiveness ought to be like a cancelled note - torn in two, and burned up, so that it never can be shown against one.
• I never knew how to worship until I knew how to love.
• In this world it is not what we take up, but what we give up, that makes us rich.
• In this world, full often, our joys are only the tender shadows which our sorrows cast.
• It is not the going out of port, but the coming in, that determines the success of a voyage.
• 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.
• It's not the work which kills people, it's the worry. It's not the revolution that destroys machinery it's the friction.
• Laughter is day, and sobriety is night a smile is the twilight that hovers gently between both, more bewitching than either.
• Laughter is not a bad beginning for a friendship, and it is the best ending for one.
• Law represents the effort of man to organize society governments, the efforts of selfishness to overthrow liberty.
• Love cannot endure indifference. It needs to be wanted. Like a lamp, it needs to be fed out of the oil of another's heart, or its flame burns low.
• Love is the river of life in the world.
• Mirth is the sweet wine of human life. It should be offered sparkling with zestful life unto God.
• 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.