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Failure is a school in which the truth always grows strong.
- Henry Ward Beecher
Ones best success comes after their greatest disappointments.
- Henry Ward Beecher
That is true culture which helps us to work for the social betterment of all.
- 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
We sleep, but the loom of life never stops, and the pattern which was weaving when the sun went down is weaving when it comes up in the morning.
- Henry Ward Beecher
Our best successes often come after our greatest disappointments.
- Henry Ward Beecher
Every man should be born again on the first day of January. Start with a fresh page. Take up one hole more in the buckle if necessary, or let down one, according to circumstances; but on the first of January let every man gird himself once more, with his face to the front, and take no interest in the things that were and are past.
- Henry Ward Beecher
Repentance may begin instantly, but reformation often requires a sphere of years.
- Henry Ward Beecher
Troubles are often the tools God fashions us for better things.
- Henry Ward Beecher
Can you imagine doing ministry the last five hundred years and getting away with 'Sorry, I don't do books'? Can you imagine doing ministry in the next five years and getting away with 'Sorry, I don't do Facebook'?
- Leonard Sweet
You cannot expect to achieve new goals or move beyond your present circumstances unless you change.
- Les Brown
As Marcus Garvey would say, "Rise up you mighty people, onward and upward to victory.
- Les Brown