Quotes from Henry Ward Beecher
Blessed are they who know how to shine on one's gloom with their cheer.
— Henry Ward Beecher
No man is such a conqueror as the man who has defeated himself.
— Henry Ward Beecher
Of all the music that reached farthest into heaven, it is the beating of a loving heart.
— Henry Ward Beecher
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
Conceited men often seem a harmless kind of men, who, by an overweening self-respect, relieve others from the duty of respecting them at all.
— Henry Ward Beecher
If a man can have only one kind of sense, let him have common sense. If he has that and uncommon sense too, he is not far from genius.
— Henry Ward Beecher
The man who perceives life only with his eye, his ear, his hand, and his tongue, is but little higher than the ox or an intelligent dog; but he who has imagination sees things around and above him, as the angels see them.
— Henry Ward Beecher
Keep a fair-sized cemetery in your back yard, in which to bury the faults of your friends.
— Henry Ward Beecher
A man that has lost moral sense is like a man in battle with both of his legs shot off: he has nothing to stand on.
— Henry Ward Beecher
Do not look back on happiness, or dream of it in the future. You are only sure of today; do not let yourself be cheated out of it.
— Henry Ward Beecher
The humblest individual exerts some influence, either for good or evil, upon others.
— Henry Ward Beecher
It is not work that kills men; it is worry. Worry is rust upon the blade.
— Henry Ward Beecher