Top 500 Henry Ward Beecher Quotes (2024 Update)

1. “A library is not a luxury but one of the necessities of life.”

— Henry Ward Beecher

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

— Henry Ward Beecher

3. “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

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4. “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

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

— Henry Ward Beecher

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6. “The first hour of the morning is the rudder of the day.”

— Henry Ward Beecher

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

— Henry Ward Beecher

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

— Henry Ward Beecher

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9. “The bibliophile is the master of his books, the bibliomaniac their slave.”

— Henry Ward Beecher

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10. “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

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

— Henry Ward Beecher

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12. “The thankful heart will find, in every hour, some heavenly blessings.”

— Henry Ward Beecher

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

— Henry Ward Beecher

14. “What the heart has once owned and had, it shall never lose.”

— Henry Ward Beecher

15. “What I spent, I had; What I kept, I lost; What I gave, I have.”

— Henry Ward Beecher

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

— Henry Ward Beecher

17. “All words are pegs to hang ideas on.”

— Henry Ward Beecher

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

— Henry Ward Beecher

19. “October is the opal month of the year. It is the month of glory, of ripeness. It is the picture-month.”

— Henry Ward Beecher

20. “We never know the love of a parent till we become parents ourselves.”

— Henry Ward Beecher

21. “Selfishness at the expense of others happiness is demonism.”

— Henry Ward Beecher

22. “No emotion, any more than a wave, can long retain its own individual form.”

— Henry Ward Beecher

23. “Don’t look where you fall, but where you slipped.”

— Henry Ward Beecher

24. “Good-humor makes all things tolerable.”

— Henry Ward Beecher

25. “Everyone has influence, for good or bad, upon others.”

— Henry Ward Beecher

26. “Gratitude is the fairest blossom which springs from the soul.”

— Henry Ward Beecher

27. “A man without ambition is like a beautiful worm – it can creep, but it cannot fly.”

— Henry Ward Beecher

28. “There are persons so radiant, so genial, so kind, so pleasure-bearin g, that you instinctively feel in their presence that they do you good; whose coming into a room is like bringing a lamp there.”

— Henry Ward Beecher

29. “October is nature’s funeral month. Nature glories in death more than in life. The month of departure is more beautiful than the month of coming – October than May. Every green thin loves to die in bright colors.”

— Henry Ward Beecher

30. “Be a hard master to yourself – and be lenient to everybody else.”

— Henry Ward Beecher

31. “If men had wings and bore black feathers, Few of them would be clever enough to be crows.”

— Henry Ward Beecher

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32. “The mother’s heart is the child’s schoolroom.”

— Henry Ward Beecher

33. “Never excuse yourself.”

— Henry Ward Beecher

34. “There is no friendship, no love, like that of the parent for the child.”

— Henry Ward Beecher

35. “I never knew an early-rising, hard-working, prudent man, careful of his earnings, and strictly honest who complained of bad luck.”

— Henry Ward Beecher

36. “Books are the windows through which the soul looks out.”

— Henry Ward Beecher

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

— Henry Ward Beecher

38. “It is not work that kills men; it is worry. Work is healthy; you can hard put more upon a man than he can bear. Worry is rust upon the blade. It is not the revolution that destroys the machinery, but the friction.”

— Henry Ward Beecher

39. “The sun does not shine for a few trees and flowers, but for the wide world’s joy.”

— Henry Ward Beecher

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40. “The Church is not a gallery for the exhibition of eminent Christians, but a school for the education of imperfect ones.”

— Henry Ward Beecher

41. “Happiness is not the end of life: character is.”

— Henry Ward Beecher

42. “Troubles are often the tools by which God fashions us for better things.”

— Henry Ward Beecher

43. “The little troubles and worries of life may be as stumbling blocks in our way, or we may make them stepping-stones to a nobler character and to Heaven. Troubles are often the tools by which God fashions us for better things.”

— Henry Ward Beecher

44. “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.”

— Henry Ward Beecher

45. “God made the human body, and it is the most exquisite and wonderful organization which has come to us from the divine hand.”

— Henry Ward Beecher

46. “Riches are not an end of life, but an instrument of life.”

— Henry Ward Beecher

47. “Flattery is praise insincerely given for an interested purpose.”

— Henry Ward Beecher

48. “Where is human nature so weak as in the bookstore?”

— Henry Ward Beecher

49. “Be angry, and yet do not sin; do not let the sun go down on your anger.”

— Henry Ward Beecher

50. “Let the GRATEFUL HEART sweep through the day that it may recognize in every hour some sweet blessing.”

— Henry Ward Beecher