All Henry Ward Beecher Quotes
To become an able and successful man in any profession, three things are necessary, nature, study and practice.
Henry Ward Beecher
55% of people like this quote
Hold yourself responsible for a higher standard than anybody expects of you. Never excuse yourself.
Henry Ward Beecher
55% of people like this quote
Books are not made for furniture, but there is nothing else that so beautifully furnishes a house.
Henry Ward Beecher
55% of people like this quote
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
55% of people like this quote
The world's battlefields have been in the heart chiefly; more heroism has been displayed in the household and the closet, than on the most memorable battlefields in history.
Henry Ward Beecher
55% of people like this quote
Laughter is day, and sobriety is night; a smile is the twilight that hovers gently between both, more bewitching than either.
Henry Ward Beecher
55% of people like this quote
The advertisements in a newspaper are more full knowledge in respect to what is going on in a state or community than the editorial columns are.
Henry Ward Beecher
54% of people like this quote
We are always on the anvil; by trials God is shaping us for higher things.
Henry Ward Beecher
54% of people like this quote
In this world, full often, our joys are only the tender shadows which our sorrows cast.
Henry Ward Beecher
54% of people like this quote
A proud man is seldom a grateful man, for he never thinks he gets as much as he deserves.
Henry Ward Beecher
54% of people like this quote
There are three schoolmasters for everybody that will employ them - the senses, intelligent companions, and books.
Henry Ward Beecher
54% of people like this quote
I don't like these cold, precise, perfect people, who, in order not to speak wrong, never speak at all, and in order not to do wrong, never do anything.
Henry Ward Beecher
54% of people like this quote
Every man should keep a fair-sized cemetery in which to bury the faults of his friends.
Henry Ward Beecher
54% of people like this quote
Every artist dips his brush in his own soul, and paints his own nature into his pictures.
Henry Ward Beecher in
Art
54% of people like this quote
A library is not a luxury but one of the necessities of life.
Henry Ward Beecher
54% of people like this quote
Related authors