Quotes By Henry Ward Beecher
You cannot sift out the poor from the community. The poor are indispensable to the rich.
Henry Ward Beecher
Every young man would do well to remember that all successful business stands on the foundation of morality.
Henry Ward Beecher
All ambitions are lawful except those that climb upward on the miseries or credulities of mankind.
Henry Ward Beecher
Books are not made for furniture, but there is nothing else that so beautifully furnishes a house.
Henry Ward Beecher
In this world, full often, our joys are only the tender shadows which our sorrows cast.
Henry Ward Beecher
Hold yourself responsible for a higher standard than anybody expects of you. Never excuse yourself.
Henry Ward Beecher
In this world it is not what we take up, but what we give up, that makes us rich.
Henry Ward Beecher
Every man should keep a fair-sized cemetery in which to bury the faults of his friends.
Henry Ward Beecher
To become an able and successful man in any profession, three things are necessary, nature, study and practice.
Henry Ward Beecher
Children are unpredictable. You never know what inconsistency they are going to catch you in next.
Henry Ward Beecher
I don't like these cold, precise, perfect people, who, in order not to speak wrong, never speak at all, and in order not to do wrong, never do anything.
Henry Ward Beecher
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