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Famous Quotes Home >> Authors Starting with H >> Quotes By Henry Ward Beecher |
| Quote #1: | "Every artist dips his brush in his own soul, and paints his own nature into his pictures." |
| Quote #2: | "The mother's heart is the child's schoolroom." |
| Quote #3: | "Hold yourself responsible for a higher standard than anybody expects of you. Never excuse yourself." |
| Quote #4: | "Every charitable act is a stepping stone toward heaven." |
| Quote #5: | "A person without a sense of humor is like a wagon without springs -- jolted by every pebble in the road." |
| Quote #6: | "Some people are so dry that you might soak them in a joke for a month and it would not get through their skins." |
| Quote #7: | "A reputation for good judgment, for fair dealing, for truth, and for rectitude, is itself a fortune." |
| Quote #8: | "It is not the going out of port, but the coming in, that determines the success of a voyage." |
| Quote #9: | "Of all the music that reached farthest into heaven, it is the beating of a loving heart." |
| Quote #10: | "All words are pegs to hang ideas on." |
| Quote #11: | "Every tomorrow has two handles. We can take hold of it with the handle of anxiety or the handle of faith." |
| Quote #12: | "To become an able and successful man in any profession, three things are necessary, nature, study and practice." |
| Quote #13: | "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." |
| Quote #14: | "We not only live among men, but there are airy hosts, blessed spectators, sympathetic lookers-on, that see and know and appreciate our thoughts and feelings and acts." |
| Quote #15: | "It is the heart that makes a man rich. He is rich according to what he is, not according to what he has." |
| Quote #16: | "Repentance is another name for aspiration." |
| Quote #17: | "Every young man would do well to remember that all successful business stands on the foundation of morality." |
| Quote #18: | "Greatness lies not in being strong, but in the right use of strength." |
| Quote #19: | "The dog was created especially for children. He is the God of frolic." |
| Quote #20: | "Doctrine is nothing but the skin of truth set up and stuffed." |
| Quote #21: | "I never knew how to worship until I knew how to love." |
| Quote #22: | "Troubles are often the tools God fashions us for better things." |
| Quote #23: | "If a man cannot be a Christian in the place he is, he cannot be a Christian anywhere." |
| Quote #24: | "Compassion will cure more sins than condemnation." |
| Quote #25: | "We steal if we touch tomorrow. It is God's." |
| Quote #26: | "The sun does not shine for a few trees and flowers, but for the wide world's joy." |
| Quote #27: | "Our sweetest experiences of affection are meant to point us to that realm which is the real and endless home of the heart." |
| Quote #28: | "What the heart has once owned and had, it shall never lose." |
| Quote #29: | "It is not what we take up, but what we give up, that makes us rich." |
| Quote #30: | "Repentance may begin instantly, but reformation often requires a sphere of years." |
| Quote #31: | "The power of hiding ourselves from one another is mercifully given, for men are wild beasts, and would devour one another but for this protection." |
| Quote #32: | "You never know till you try to reach them how accessible men are but you must approach each man by the right door." |
| Quote #33: | "Where is human nature so weak as in the bookstore" |
| Quote #34: | "Never forget what a man says to you when he is angry." |
| Quote #35: | "The meanest, most contemptible kind of praise is that which first speaks well of a man, and then qualifies it with a but." |
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