Quotes about Henry Ward Beecher

In this world it is not what we take up, but what we give up,...

#Henry Ward Beecher

I pray on the principle that wine knocks the cork out of a bottle. There...

#Henry Ward Beecher

I don't like these cold, precise, perfect people, who, in order not to speak wrong,...

#Henry Ward Beecher

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

#Henry Ward Beecher

Heaven will be inherited by every man who has heaven in his soul.

#Henry Ward Beecher

He is rich or poor according to what he is, not according to what he...

#Henry Ward Beecher

Greatness lies, not in being strong, but in the right using of strength; and strength...

#Henry Ward Beecher

Good nature is worth more than knowledge, more than money, more than honor, to the...

#Henry Ward Beecher

Gambling with cards or dice or stocks is all one thing. It's getting money without...

#Henry Ward Beecher

Flowers are the sweetest things God ever made and forgot to put a soul into.

#Henry Ward Beecher

Expedients are for the hour, but principles are for the ages.

#Henry Ward Beecher

Suffering is part of the divine idea.

#Henry Ward Beecher