Henry Ward Beecher Quotes
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A babe is nothing but a bundle of possibilities.
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Victories that come cheap are cheap. Those only are worth having which come as the result of hard fighting.
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Private opinion is weak, but public opinion is almost omnipotent.
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Every boy wants someone older than himself to whom he may go in moods of confidence and yearning. The neglect of this child's want by grown people . . . is a fertile source of suffering.
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It is a very good world for the purposes for which it was built; and that is all anything is good for.
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That was a judicious mother who said, "I obey my children for the first year of their lives, but ever after I expect them to obey me.
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Our life is in the loom; it rolls up and is hidden as fast as it is woven. It is to be taken out of the loom only when we leave this world; then only shall we see the pattern.
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Intelligence increases mere physical ability one half. The use of the head abridges the labor of the hands.
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The ability to convert ideas to things is the secret of outward success.
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The worst prison is not of stone. It is of a throbbing heart, outraged by an infamous life.
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God is the one great employer, thinker, planner, supervisor.
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No man is good for anything who has not some particle of obstinacy to use upon occasion.
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Truths are first clouds; then rain, then harvest and food.
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Of all joyful, smiling, ever-laughing experiences, there are none like those which spring from true religion.
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Wherever you have seen God pass, mark that spot, and go and sit in that window again.
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A practical, matter-of-fact man is like a wagon without springs: every single pebble on the road jolts him; but a man with imagination has springs that break the jar and jolt.
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When our cup runs over, we let others drink the drops that fall, but not a drop from within the rim, and call it charity; when the crumbs are swept from our table, we think it generous to let the dogs eat them; as if that were charity which permits others to have what we cannot keep.
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What we call wisdom is the result of all the wisdom of past ages. Our best institutions are like young trees growing upon the roots of the old trunks that have crumbled away.
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Thorough selfishness destroys or paralyzes enjoyment. A heart made selfish by the contest for wealth is like a citadel stormed in war, utterly shattered.
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It's easier to go down a hill than up it but the view is much better at the top.
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Our best successes often come after our greatest disappointments.
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There is not a heart but has its moments of longing, yearning for something better; nobler; holier than it knows now.
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A man's character is the reality of himself; his reputation, the opinion others have formed about him; character resides in him, reputation in other people; that is the substance, this is the shadow.
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Victories are easy and cheap. The only victories worth anything are those achieved through hard work and dedication.