Quotes from Henry Ward Beecher
Hold yourself responsible for a higher standard than anybody expects of you. Never excuse yourself.
- Henry Ward Beecher
You have come into a hard world. I know of only one easy place in it, and that is the grave.
- Henry Ward Beecher
God asks no man whether he will accept life. This is not the choice. You must take it. The only question is how.
- Henry Ward Beecher
A Christian is nothing but a sinful man who has put himself to school for Christ for the honest purpose of becoming better.
- Henry Ward Beecher
A church debt is the devil's salary.
- Henry Ward Beecher
Do not be afraid of defeat. You are never so near to victory as when defeated in a good cause.
- Henry Ward Beecher
It is defeat that turns bone to flint; it is defeat that turns gristle to muscle; it is defeat that makes men invincible.
- Henry Ward Beecher
In things pertaining to enthusiasm, no man is sane who does not know how to be insane on proper occasions.
- Henry Ward Beecher
It is defeat that turns bone to flint; it is defeat that turns gristle to muscle; it is defeat that makes men invincible. Do not then be afraid of defeat. You are never so near to victory as when defeated in a good cause.
- Henry Ward Beecher
There is no such thing as white lies; a lie is as black as a coalpit, and twice as foul.
- Henry Ward Beecher
Flowers may beckon towards us, but they speak toward heaven and God.
- Henry Ward Beecher
"I can forgive, but I cannot forget" is only another way of saying, "I will not forgive." Forgiveness ought to be like a canceled note-torn in two and burned up so that it never can be shown against one.
- Henry Ward Beecher