Quotes By Henry Ward Beecher

Pride slays thanksgiving, but an 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.

The head learns new things, but the heart forever practices old experiences.

I never knew how to worship until I knew how to love.

Laugh at your friends, and if your friends are sore; So much the better, you may laugh the more.

Children are the hands by which we take hold of heaven.

No man is sane who does not know how to be insane on proper occasions.

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

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

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

The sun does not shine for a few trees and flowers, but for the wide world's joy.

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

It is the heart that makes a man rich. He is rich according to what he is, not according to what he has.

There is no faculty of the human soul so persistent and universal as that of hatred.

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.

Beware of him who hates the laugh of a child.

It's not the work which kills people, it's the worry. It's not the revolution that destroys machinery it's the friction.

There are three schoolmasters for everybody that will employ them - the senses, intelligent companions, and books.

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.

Our best successes often come after our greatest disappointments.

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.

The soul without imagination is what an observatory would be without a telescope.

The ability to convert ideas to things is the secret of outward success.

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.

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

You cannot sift out the poor from the community. The poor are indispensable to the rich.

God asks no man whether he will accept life. That is not the choice. You must take it. The only choice is how.

All ambitions are lawful except those that climb upward on the miseries or credulities of mankind.

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

In this world, full often, our joys are only the tender shadows which our sorrows cast.

Books are not men and yet they stay alive.