Henry Ward Beecher Quotes

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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

Down, Top, View

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.
Henry Ward Beecher

Forgiveness, Forget, Saying

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

Humor, Person, Sense

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

Wisdom, Judge, Point

We never know the love of a parent till we become parents ourselves.
Henry Ward Beecher

Parenting, Love, Parents

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

Faith, Tomorrow, Two

Every charitable act is a stepping stone toward heaven.
Henry Ward Beecher

Inspirational, Act, Heaven

Hold yourself responsible for a higher standard than anybody expects of you. Never excuse yourself.
Henry Ward Beecher

Leadership, Yourself, Anybody

The unthankful heart... discovers no mercies; but let the thankful heart sweep through the day and, as the magnet finds the iron, so it will find, in every hour, some heavenly blessings!
Henry Ward Beecher

Thankful, Heart, Blessings

Pride slays thanksgiving, but a humble mind is the soil out of which thanks naturally grow. A proud man is seldom a grateful man, for he never thinks he gets as much as he deserves.
Henry Ward Beecher

Mind, Humble, Proud

Good nature is worth more than knowledge, more than money, more than honor, to the persons who possess it.
Henry Ward Beecher

Wisdom, Nature, Good

Gratitude is the fairest blossom which springs from the soul.
Henry Ward Beecher

Inspirational, Gratitude, Soul

Every artist dips his brush in his own soul, and paints his own nature into his pictures.
Henry Ward Beecher

Art, Nature, Soul

Tears are often the telescope by which men see far into heaven.
Henry Ward Beecher

Inspirational, Men, Often

The true secret of giving advice is, after you have honestly given it, to be perfectly indifferent whether it is taken or not, and never persist in trying to set people right.
Henry Ward Beecher

True, Giving, Trying

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

Success, Give, Rich

There is no friendship, no love, like that of the parent for the child.
Henry Ward Beecher

Love, Friendship, Child

Every young man would do well to remember that all successful business stands on the foundation of morality.
Henry Ward Beecher

Business, Successful, Remember

I never knew how to worship until I knew how to love.
Henry Ward Beecher

Religion, Love, Until

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

Great, Strength, Strong

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.
Henry Ward Beecher

Love, Heart, Pretty

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

Religion, God, Trials

The real man is one who always finds excuses for others, but never excuses himself.
Henry Ward Beecher

Real, Others, Excuses

Laughter is day, and sobriety is night; a smile is the twilight that hovers gently between both, more bewitching than either.
Henry Ward Beecher

Smile, Laughter, Night

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.
Henry Ward Beecher

Love, Heart, Cannot

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Clergyman

Born: June 24, 1813

Died: March 8, 1887

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