Henry Ward Beecher Quotes
It is not the going out of port, but the coming in, that determines the success of a voyage.
The sun does not shine for a few trees and flowers, but for the wide world's joy.
If a man cannot be a Christian in the place where he is, he cannot be a Christian anywhere.
There is a power in the human mind ... to see things as they are ... but there is equally a power to see things as they might be.
The unthankful heart... discovers no mercies; but let the thankful heart sweep through the day and, as the magnet finds the iron, so it will find, in every hour, some heavenly blessings!
Life would be a perpetual flea hunt if a man were obliged to run down all the innuendoes, inveracities, and insinuations and misrepresentations which are uttered against him.
Our government is built upon the vote. But votes that are purchasable are quicksands, and a government built on them stands upon corruption and revolution.
To become an able and successful man in any profession, three things are necessary, nature, study and practice.
Every man should be born again on the first day of January. Start with a fresh page
A book is good company. It is full of conversation without loquacity. It comes to your longing with full instruction, but pursues you never.
“I can forgive, but I cannot forget,” is only another way of saying, “I will not forgive.”
No matter what looms ahead, if you can eat today, enjoy today, mix good cheer with friends today enjoy it and bless God for it.
Pride slays thanksgiving, but a humble mind is the soil out of which thanks naturally grow. A proud man is seldom a grateful man, for he never thinks he gets as much as he deserves.
Love cannot endure indifference. It needs to be wanted. Like a lamp, it needs to be fed out of the oil of another's heart, or its flame burns low.
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.
Character, like porcelain-ware, must be painted before it is glazed. There can be no change of color after it is burned in.
Memory can glean, but can never renew. It brings us joys faint as is the perfume of the flowers, faded and dried, of the summer that is gone.
In the family, happiness is in the ratio in which each is serving the others, seeking one another's good, and bearing one another's burdens.
A grindstone that had not grit in it, how long would it take to sharpen an ax? And affairs that had not grit in them, how long would they take to make a man?
October is the opal month of the year. It is the month of glory, of ripeness. It is the picture-month.
Of all man's works of art, a cathedral is greatest. A vast and majestic tree is greater than that.
I think you might dispense with half your doctors if you would only consult Dr. Sun more.
Every young man would do well to remember that all successful business stands on the foundation of morality.
The real democratic American idea is, not that every man shall be on a level with every other man, but that every man shall have liberty to be what God made him, without hindrance.
The Bible is God's chart for you to steer by, to keep you from the bottom of the sea, and to show you where the harbor is, and how to reach it without running on rocks or bars.
Gambling with cards or dice or stocks is all one thing. It's getting money without giving an equivalent for it.
Children are unpredictable. You never know what inconsistency they are going to catch you in next.
Whatever is almost true is quite false, and among the most dangerous of errors, because being so near truth, it is more likely to lead astray.
