Inspirational Quotes by Henry Ward Beecher
“Hold yourself responsible for a higher standard than anybody else expects of you. Never excuse yourself. Never pity yourself. Be a hard master to yourself-and be lenient to everybody else.”
“The unthankful heart discovers no mercies; but the thankful heart will find, in every hour, some heavenly blessings.”
“A noble man compares and estimates himself by an idea which is higher than himself; and a mean man, by one lower than himself. The one produces aspiration; the other ambition, which is the way in which a vulgar man aspires.”
“The difference between perseverance and obstinacy is, that one often comes from a strong will, and the other from a strong won't.”
topics: persistence
“Adversity, if for no other reason, is of benefit, since it is sure to bring a season of sober reflection. People see clearer at such times. Storms purify the atmosphere.”
“A person without a sense of humor is like a wagon without springs, jolted by every pebble in the road.”
“Now comes the mystery! (last words)”
“Hold yourself to a higher standard than anyone else expects of you. Never excuse yourself.”
topics: inspirational
“Young love is a flame; very pretty, often very hot and fierce, but still only light and flickering. The love of the older and disciplined heart is as coals, deep burning, unquenchable.”
topics: love
“Troubles are often the tools by which God fashions us for better things.”
“No man is sane who does not know how to be insane on the proper occasions." Henry Ward Beecher”
“Books are the windows through which the soul looks out.”
“Greatness lies not in being strong, but in the right use of strength. ”
topics: inspirational
“No man can tell whether he is rich or poor by turning to his ledger. It is in the heart that makes a man rich. He is rich according to what he is, not according to what he has”
“There is no friendship, no love, like that of the mother for the child.”
“A little library, growing every year, is an honorable part of a man’s history. It is a man’s duty to have books.”
“Alas! Where is human nature so weak as in the book-store?”
“If a man harbors any sort of fear, it percolates through all his thinking, damages his personality, makes him landlord to a ghost.”
topics: human-nature
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Henry Ward Beecher was an American preacher and reformer, born in Litchfield, Connecticut. He was the eighth child of Lyman and Roxana Foote Beecher, and brother of Harriet Beecher Stowe.
Reared in a Puritan atmosphere, he has graphically described the mystical experience which, coming to him in his early youth, changed his whole conception of theology and determined his choice of the ministry.
It was in the pulpit that Beecher was seen at his best. His mastery of the English tongue, his dramatic power, his instinctive art of impersonation, which had become a second nature, his vivid imagination, his breadth of intellectual view, his quaint humor alternating with genuine pathos, and above all his simple and singularly unaffected devotional nature, made him as a preacher without a peer in his own time and country.
He was stricken with apoplexy while still active in the ministry, and died at Brooklyn on the 8th of March 1887, in the seventy-fourth year of his age.