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

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.

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

Henry Ward Beecher
Inspirational, Strength, Success

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

Henry Ward Beecher
Motivational, Success, Giving Up
Henry Ward Beecher, Edna Dean Proctor (1858). “Life Thoughts: Gathered from the Extemporaneous Discourses of Henry Ward Beecher”, p.19

Greatness lies not in being strong, but in the right use of strength.

Henry Ward Beecher
Inspirational, Strength, Success
Henry Ward Beecher (1858). “Life Thoughts”, p.33

To become an able and successful man in any profession, three things are necessary, nature, study and practice.

Henry Ward Beecher
Success, Nature, Men

Men's best successes come after their disappointments.

Henry Ward Beecher
Inspirational, Inspiring, Success
Henry Ward Beecher, William Drysdale (1887). “Proverbs from Plymouth Pulpit”

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

Henry Ward Beecher
Inspirational, Life, Success
Henry Ward Beecher, William Drysdale (1887). “Proverbs from Plymouth Pulpit”

Success is full of promise till one gets it, and then it seems like a nest from which the bird has flown.

Henry Ward Beecher
Success, War, Bird

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

Henry Ward Beecher
Life, Success, Men
HENRY WARD BEECHER (1859). “LIFE THOUGHTS”, p.154

It is not the going out of port, but the coming in, that determines the success of a voyage.

Henry Ward Beecher
Inspirational, Success, Congratulations
Henry Ward Beecher, William Drysdale (1887). “Proverbs from Plymouth Pulpit”

Success surely comes with conscience in the long run, other things being equal. Capacity and fidelity are commercially profitable qualities.

Henry Ward Beecher
Success, Running, Long
Henry Ward Beecher (1893). “The Original Plymouth Pulpit: Sermons from the Stenographic Reports by T.J. Ellinwood. September 1868 to September 1873”

Not that which men do worthily, but that which they do successfully, is what history makes haste to record.

Henry Ward Beecher
Success, Men, Haste
Henry Ward Beecher (1858). “Life Thoughts”, p.53

The beginnings of moral enterprises in this world are never to be measured by any apparent growth. ... At length comes the sudden ripeness and the full success, and he who is called in at the final moment deems this success his own. He is but the reaper and not the labourer. Other men sowed and tilled and he but enters into their labours.

Henry Ward Beecher
Success, Nature, Men

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