Authors:

Henry Ward Beecher Quotes

All Quotes Adversity Age Ambition Anger Anxiety Army Art Atheism Atmosphere Attitude Autumn Beauty Being Strong Belief Bible Bones Business Change Character Charity Children Christ Christianity Church Community Compassion Contentment Country Creation Criticism Culture Darkness Death Defeat Desire Devil Disappointment Discipline Dying Earth Education Evil Excellence Exercise Failure Faith Family Fashion Fear Feelings Flattery Forgiveness Friendship Funeral Funny Future Generosity Genius Giving Glory God Gold Goodness Grace Gratitude Greatness Grief Grieving Growing Up Growth Happiness Hate Health Heart Heaven History Home Honor Hope House Humility Ignorance Imagination Immortality Impulse Inspiration Inspirational Inspiring Jesus Joy Judging Justice Kindness Knowledge Laughter Laziness Leadership Liberty Life Love Lying Mankind Memories Military Mom Money Morality Morning Motherhood Motivation Motivational Mountain Music Nature Pain Parenting Passion Past Pleasure Positive Poverty Power Prayer Pride Prosperity Purity Purpose Rain Reading Reality Religion Reputation Revolution Running School Science Selfishness Silence Simplicity Singing Skins Sleep Sorrow Soul Spring Strength Struggle Success Suffering Summer Sunday Sympathy Temptation Thankful Thanksgiving Theology Time Today Tolerance Truth Understanding Victory Virtue Waiting Water Wealth Wine Wisdom Work Worry Worship Writing
There are more quarrels smothered by just shutting your mouth, and holding it shut, than by all the wisdom in the world.

There are more quarrels smothered by just shutting your mouth, and holding it shut, than by all the wisdom in the world.

Henry Ward Beecher
World, Mouths, Quarrels
Henry Ward Beecher, Truman Jeremiah Ellinwood (1873). “The Sermons of Henry Ward Beecher in Plymouth Church, Brooklyn”

Walking humbly, you are more of a man than you were when you walked proudly.

Henry Ward Beecher
Men, Walking
Henry Ward Beecher, Truman Jeremiah Ellinwood (1882). “Sermons in Plymouth Church, Brooklyn”

No man can tell if he is rich or poor by turning to his ledger. It is the heart that makes a man rich. He is rich according to what he is, not according to what he has.

Henry Ward Beecher
Heart, Men, Rich Or Poor
Henry Ward Beecher (1858). “Life Thoughts”, p.46

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

Henry Ward Beecher
Motivational, Faith, Future

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
Leadership, Wisdom, Distance

The difference between perseverance and obstinacy is that one comes from a strong will, and the other from a strong won't.

Henry Ward Beecher
Inspirational, Success, Perseverance
"Proverbial Wisdom: Proverbs, Maxims and Ethical Sentences, of Interest to All Classes of Men". Book by Abram N. Coleman, p. 233, 1903.

A man without a vote is in this land like a man without a hand.

Henry Ward Beecher
Men, Hands, Land
Henry Ward Beecher, William Drysdale (1887). “Proverbs from Plymouth Pulpit”

A man never has good luck who has a bad wife.

Henry Ward Beecher
Good Luck, Men, Wife
Henry Ward Beecher (1856). “Lectures to young men: on various important subjects”, p.30

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

Henry Ward Beecher
War, Adversity, Religion

Beware of him who hates the laugh of a child.

Henry Ward Beecher
Laughter, Children, Hate

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
Inspirational, Motivational, Attitude

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

Henry Ward Beecher
Inspirational, Strength, Success

Repentance may begin instantly, but reformation often requires a sphere of years.

Henry Ward Beecher
Years, May, Spheres
Henry Ward Beecher, William Drysdale (1887). “Proverbs from Plymouth Pulpit”

No matter what looms ahead, if you can eat today, enjoy the sunlight today, mix good cheer with friends today, enjoy it and bless God for it. Do not look back on happiness -- or dream of it in the future. You are only sure of today; do not let yourself be cheated out of it.

Henry Ward Beecher
Dream, Time, Cheer

Don't look where you fall, but where you slipped.

Henry Ward Beecher
Wise, Fall, Looks

All human affairs follow nature's great analogue, the growth of vegetation. There are three periods of growth in every plant. The first, and slowest, is the invisible growth by the root; the second and much accelerated is the visible growth by the stem; but when root and stem have gathered their forces, there comes the third period, in which the plant quickly flashes into blossom and rushes into fruit.

Henry Ward Beecher
Nature, Roots, Growth
Henry Ward Beecher (1858). “Life Thoughts”, p.31

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
Strength, Being Strong, Loneliness
Henry Ward Beecher (1858). “Life Thoughts”, p.33

Everyone has conscience enough to hate; few have religion enough to love.

Henry Ward Beecher
Hate, Enough, Despise

A person can no more make money suddenly and largely, and be unharmed by it, than one could suddenly grow from a child's stature to an adult's without harm.

Henry Ward Beecher
Money, Children, Adults

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

Henry Ward Beecher
Motivational, Graduation, Perseverance

“I can forgive, but I cannot forget,” is only another way of saying, “I will not forgive.”

Henry Ward Beecher
Inspirational, Motivational, Friendship
"Gems of Truth & Beauty".

Truths are first clouds; then rain, then harvest and food.

Henry Ward Beecher
Rain, Food, Clouds
Henry Ward Beecher (1858). “Life Thoughts”, p.92

The strength of a man consists in finding out the way God is going, and going that way.

Henry Ward Beecher
Strength, War, Men
Henry Ward Beecher (1858). “Life Thoughts”, p.34

What a mother sings to the cradle goes all the way down to the coffin.

Henry Ward Beecher
Mother, War, Being A Mom
Henry Ward Beecher, William Drysdale (1887). “Proverbs from Plymouth Pulpit”

The things that hurt us teach us.

Henry Ward Beecher
Hurt, Teach

You May Also Like: