Quotes By Henry Ward Beecher

You cannot sift out the poor from the community. The poor are indispensable to the rich.

God asks no man whether he will accept life. That is not the choice. You must take it. The only choice is how.

To become an able and successful man in any profession, three things are necessary, nature, study and practice.

All ambitions are lawful except those that climb upward on the miseries or credulities of mankind.

Every young man would do well to remember that all successful business stands on the foundation of morality.

In this world, full often, our joys are only the tender shadows which our sorrows cast.

Books are not men and yet they stay alive.

Books are not made for furniture, but there is nothing else that so beautifully furnishes a house.

Hold yourself responsible for a higher standard than anybody expects of you. Never excuse yourself.

We should not judge people by their peak of excellence; but by the distance they have traveled from the point where they started.

You and I do not see things as they are. We see things as we are.

Success is full of promise till one gets it, and then it seems like a nest from which the bird has flown.

Heaven will be inherited by every man who has heaven in his soul.

Every man should keep a fair-sized cemetery in which to bury the faults of his friends.

The worst thing in this world, next to anarchy, is government.

What a mother sings to the cradle goes all the way down to the coffin.

God pardons like a mother, who kisses the offense into everlasting forgiveness.

The dog is the god of frolic.

Never forget what a person says to you when they are angry.

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.

The mother's heart is the child's schoolroom.

He is rich or poor according to what he is, not according to what he has.

Children are unpredictable. You never know what inconsistency they are going to catch you in next.

A man that does not know how to be angry does not know how to be good.

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.

Selfishness is that detestable vice which no one will forgive in others, and no one is without himself.

There is no friendship, no love, like that of the parent for the child.