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

  Email Quote to Friends   Link to Quote   Create Short URL  Publish Text About This Quote   Share on Facebook, Twitter, and more
  See Recommended Quotes For You

Related

I like to open for a band as it brings on sort of a challenge and it makes things more interesting. ...
KELLY JONES
Every revolution begins with one voice crying in the wilderness.
JEFFREY FRY
No man is sane who does not know how to be insane on the proper occasions."
Henry Ward Beecher
HENRY WARD BEECHER
To get over the past, you first have to accept that the past is over. No matter how many times you r...
MANDY HALE
One man esteemeth one day above another: another esteemeth every day alike. Let every man be full...
BIBLE
The head learns new things, but the heart forever more practices old experiences. -Henry Ward Beech...
HENRY WARD BEECHER
We always live in the tommorow,which never comes and which cannot come; it is impossible. That which...
OSHO
The foundation of every great year begins with January first.
DAVID ATTA (A.K.A DAVIED ATTLARS & MR DAIN)
The unfortunate thing is that, sometimes, we slip, but, fortunately, consciously or unconsciously, w...
ERNEST AGYEMANG YEBOAH
BOUNTY, n. The liberality of one who has much, in permitting one who has nothing to get all that he ...
AMBROSE BIERCE
Dive into the river of the present, but don't thrash about, go with the flow.
JIM GENOVESE
Rehashing the past wouldn't change anything. Time to move forward.
ZENA WYNN
If you want to fly on the sky, you need to leave the earth. If you want to move forward, you need to...
AMIT RAY
Welcome every morning with a smile. Look on the new day as another special gift from your Creator, a...
OG MANDINO
You deserve to be with somebody, who knows you're the one, from that very first moment he lays eyes ...
C. JOYBELL C.
The mark of a real man, is a man who can allow himself to fall deeply in love with a woman. But the ...
C. JOYBELL C.
I will not read the last page of novels first," I said, and then punched myself in the face.
"...
BRANDON SANDERSON
All the things that are in the past are in the past.
PABLO SANDOVAL
The role we can play every day, if we try, is to take the whole experience of every day and shape it...
JOHN HAY WHITNEY
Man can will nothing unless he has first understood that he must count on no one but himself; that h...
JEAN-PAUL SARTRE
Maybe that's what it all comes down to. Love, not as a surge of passion, but as a choice to commit t...
EMILY GIFFIN
You may fancy the Lord had His own power to fall back upon. But that would have been to Him just the...
GEORGE MACDONALD
Once the moon gets to be full somebody - some man or other - goes up every day and slices bits of on...
RICHARD ADAMS
Let every man or woman here, if you never hear me again, remember this, that if you wish to be great...
RUSSEL H. CONWELL
Here is one fact 1 minute to finish the class, 1 day to die, one day behind that fact, one day in th...
DEYTH BANGER
Let's take up the most important issues first. Let's take up the reauthorizations first; let...
DAN WEBSTER
He looked around. The room, a few suitcases, some belongings, a handful of well-read books— a man ...
ERICH MARIA REMARQUE
Remembering something from the past? you are creating it right now as evidence for who you are now.
FREDERICK DODSON
According to legend, one day a man was wandering in the desert when he met Fear and Plague. They sai...
ANON.
The boy should enclose and keep, as his life, the old child at the heart of him, and never let it go...
GEORGE MACDONALD
Don't sacrifice the present and attempt to achieve the impossible- to completely correct the past......
ASSEGID HABTEWOLD
2. Overcommitment and time pressure are the greatest destroyers of marriages. It takes time to devel...
JAMES C. DOBSON
The heart is deceitful and wicked in everyone; the Holy Spirit changes even the most wretched sinner...
NORM TOMLINSON
Woe unto you if you have come to this world just to fear man,for man is nothing but ordinary dust wi...
DAVID ATTA (A.K.A DAVIED ATTLARS & MR DAIN)
The power of man;Man does not only have the power to accomplish great & unbelievable things in life,...
DAVID ATTA (A.K.A DAVIED ATTLARS & MR DAIN)
Now is the only time we have, and the only time that we have any control over.
RICHARD CARLSON
Every man has some reminiscences which he would not tell to everyone, but only to his friends. He ha...
FYODOR DOSTOYEVSKY
A man should swallow a toad every morning to be sure of not meeting with anything more revolting in ...
NICOLAS CHAMFORT
The search for better, for more competent men, from the presidents of our great companies down to ou...
FREDERICK WINSLOW TAYLOR
When you live in the present, the past is forgotten & the future takes care of itself.
MANDY HALE
One of the commonest and most generally accepted delusions is that every man can be qualified in som...
LEO TOLSTOY
The playboy is not necessarily a man who has many girlfriends, or a man who has many women, or a man...
C. JOYBELL C.
This team has the potential to win more medals and have more success than the one in Salt Lake. We s...
ERIC HEIDEN
Let me let you in on a secret. I do plan to be on the podium with President Clinton when she's i...
TIM KAINE
She has her helmet, shield and sword. Does she finish him or take pity on the gutless thing before h...
DONNA LYNN HOPE
I'm glad that's one of the things I chose to do as a man - to be a father to my child.
BIG BOI
Clay in the hands of a good potter suffers so many good turns, but in the end, we see its real and t...
ERNEST AGYEMANG YEBOAH
I once felt all that kind of anger, which a man ought to feel, against the mean principles that are ...
THOMAS PAINE
All believers are members of the same body and should be viewed and treated that way.
HENRY HON
We have to face the hard reality that the elections cannot be held on January 8th and that the neces...
MAX MATHURIN
In a world in which the common rule which binds and regulates what the general masses feel is underm...
ERNEST AGYEMANG YEBOAH
Here are two facts that should not both be true:
- There is sufficient food produced in the wo...
MICHAEL DORRIS
Every step you take has a 50% chance to succeed or end up in failure, and if our success is build on...
C. LIDE SANGTAM
the room of the spirit is the mind and the seat of the spirit is the heart. What we give room to muc...
ERNEST AGYEMANG YEBOAH
If a madman were to come into this room with a stick in his hand, no doubt we should pity the state ...
SAMUEL JOHNSON
...knew the futility of agonizing over why things had transpired as they had. What could have happen...
RAYMOND E. FEIST
First it is necessary to stand on your own two feet. But the minute a man finds himself in that posi...
KRISTIN HUNTER
Rather than standing defiant screaming to the winds to bring the storm,
be focused, grateful f...
TOM ALTHOUSE
But when ye shall see the abomination of desolation, spoken of by Daniel the prophet, standing where...
BIBLE
Now is the only time we have, and the only time we have any control over.
RICHARD CARLSON
The Nothing is spreading," groaned the first. "It's growing and growing, there's more of it every da...
MICHAEL ENDE
Then there is the other secret. There isn't any symbolysm [sic]. The sea is the sea. The old man is ...
ERNEST HEMINGWAY
At the end of the day, I'm a man.
DANIEL CORMIER
I know his work can be extravagant, ... But the first track on 'Want One' is one of the most astonis...
DAVID GRAY
Let a man then know his worth, and keep things under his feet. Let him not peep or steal, or skulk u...
RALPH WALDO EMERSON
There is nothing more hostile to a city that a tyrant, under whom in the first and chiefest place, ...
EURIPIDES
Empathy is the new measurement of everything. It doesn't matter what religion you have, what God you...
C. JOYBELL C.
If I was in Talon, I would be the one in charge, I'd be the one calling the shots. I wouldn't have t...
JULIE KAGAWA
Let each man take the path according to his capacity, understanding and temperament. His true guru w...
SIVANANDA SARASWATI
Be kind. We never know what people are going through. Give grace and mercy because one day your circ...
GERMANY KENT
If one wants to start with the proposition that it's obviously in their (Conservatives') advantage t...
BRUCE ANDERSON
This is the performance of his life. If he does not hit his mark on the first take and get the jury ...
BRIAN WICE
The market appeared at first sight to take some heed from the Reserve Bank's recent warnings, with a...
HOWARD MORLEY
I take the blame for this one. Being a senior, I should be able to do more. . . . I'm not blaming it...
HASSAN ADAMS
I had a best friend once 20 years down the line a friendship that you just do not get now, i regarde...
GARY F EVANS...
Hold on to your past, but only hold on to the things most precious to you. Let go of those that aren...
C. LIDE SANGTAM
It seems like all the best people have all the worst habits.
THOMAS WALLACE SCHERZER
One must simply take the days of their lives as they happen. If you spend time worrying over what is...
R.J. GONZALES
Do you know what I remember? When [my father] read to me. Stupid things, dragons and heroes. He woul...
AVELINE VALEN
Let us not say, every man is the architect of his own fortune; but let us say, every man is the arch...
GEORGE D. BOARDMAN
A noble maiden must convey dignity and chastity without appearing to think about either one. Let com...
TAMORA PIERCE
And how could we endure to live and let time pass if we were always crying for one day or one year t...
C.S. LEWIS
It's cool to deal in the good times, but let me see you face the bad times. Let me see how you take ...
DAVID ORTIZ
It is not okay to ‘live and let live,’ to let ‘bygones be bygones,’ to ‘forgive and forget...
BEVERLY ENGEL
Did I think he was “the one?” Iʼll never know. At sixteen, everyone is “the one.
K.A. TUCKER
People are wrong when they think that an unemployed man only worries about losing his wages; on the ...
GEORGE ORWELL
But thing in the past are like plate that’s shattered to pieces. You can never put it back togethe...
HARUKI MURAKAMI
Let every man and woman count himself immortal. Let him catch the revelation of Jesus in his resurre...
PHILLIPS BROOKS
Every one's got it in him, if he'll only make up his mind and stick at it. None of us is born with a...
CHARLES M. SCHWAB
The one thing we know today is we can't continue to do business the way we have in the past.
BUD SELIG
It is impossible to credit one gender with every good and perfect gift without slighting the other. ...
JAMES C. DOBSON
We can leave a place behind, or we can stay in that place and leave our selfishness (often expressed...
JOHN H. GROBERG
Let every man be occupied, and occupied in the highest employment of which his nature is capable, an...
SYDNEY SMITH
Time that is spent dwelling on the past will surely continue in your present moment - and the future...
MICHELLE CRUZ-ROSADO
I was born twice: first, as a baby girl, on a remarkably smogless Detroit day in January of 1960; an...
JEFFREY EUGENIDES
We are all the children in gods garden Created to watch over with his all seeing eye Every saint has...
RACHEL-ERIKA HENDERSON
At the bottom no one in life can help anyone else in life; this one experiences over and over in eve...
RAINER MARIA RILKE
And he caused it to be proclaimed and published through Nineveh by the decree of the king and his no...
BIBLE
Get pass your past, be a presence in your present, and let no one refute your future.
JOHNNIE DENT JR.
Men have two greatest fears: the first fear is the fear of being needed, and the second fear is the ...
C. JOYBELL C.

More Henry Ward Beecher

The unthankful heart... discovers no mercies; but let the thankful heart sweep through the day and, ...
HENRY WARD BEECHER
The difference between perseverance and obstinacy is that one comes from a strong will, and the othe...
HENRY WARD BEECHER
Tears are often the telescope by which men see far into heaven.
HENRY WARD BEECHER
It's easier to go down a hill than up it but the view is much better at the top.
HENRY WARD BEECHER
Love cannot endure indifference. It needs to be wanted. Like a lamp, it needs to be fed out of the o...
HENRY WARD BEECHER
Pride slays thanksgiving, but a humble mind is the soil out of which thanks naturally grow. A proud ...
HENRY WARD BEECHER
Love is the river of life in the world.
HENRY WARD BEECHER
Any law that takes hold of a man's daily life cannot prevail in a community, unless the vast majorit...
HENRY WARD BEECHER
A law is valuable not because it is law, but because there is right in it.
HENRY WARD BEECHER
Rain! whose soft architectural hands have power to cut stones, and chisel to shapes of grandeur the ...
HENRY WARD BEECHER
Flowers are the sweetest things that God ever made and forgot to put a soul into
HENRY WARD BEECHER
It is not work that kills men; it is worry. Worry is rust upon the blade.
HENRY WARD BEECHER
Every tomorrow has two handles. We can take hold of it with the handle of anxiety or the handle of f...
HENRY WARD BEECHER
There are three schoolmasters for everybody that will employ them - the senses, intelligent compan...
HENRY WARD BEECHER
Every charitable act is a stepping stone towards heaven.
HENRY WARD BEECHER
Well married a person has wings, poorly married shackles.
HENRY WARD BEECHER
The humblest individual exerts some influence, either for good or evil, upon others.
HENRY WARD BEECHER
What a mother sings to the cradle goes all the way down to the coffin.
HENRY WARD BEECHER
If a man meets with injustice, it is not required that he shall not be roused to meet it; but if he ...
HENRY WARD BEECHER
Never forget what a person says to you when they are angry.
HENRY WARD BEECHER
The continuance and frequent fits of anger produce in the soul a propensity to be angry; which often...
HENRY WARD BEECHER
Keep a fair-sized cemetery in your back yard, in which to bury the faults of your friends.
HENRY WARD BEECHER
Young love is a flame; very pretty, often very hot and fierce, but still only light and flickering. ...
HENRY WARD BEECHER
I never knew how to worship until I knew how to love.
HENRY WARD BEECHER
The one great poem of New England is her Sunday.
HENRY WARD BEECHER
Any law that takes hold of a mans daily life cannot prevail in a community, unless the vast majority...
HENRY WARD BEECHER
A man's character is the reality of himself; his reputation, the opinion others have formed about hi...
HENRY WARD BEECHER
To become an able and successful man in any profession, three things are necessary, nature, study an...
HENRY WARD BEECHER
Success is full of promise till one gets it, and then it seems like a nest from which the bird has f...
HENRY WARD BEECHER
Ones best success comes after their greatest disappointments.
HENRY WARD BEECHER
Death is the dropping of the flower that the fruit may swell.
HENRY WARD BEECHER
Living is death; dying is life. We are not what we appear to be. On this side of the grave we are ex...
HENRY WARD BEECHER
Selfishness is that detestable vice which no one will forgive in others, and no one is without in hi...
HENRY WARD BEECHER
To know that one has a secret is to know half the secret itself.
HENRY WARD BEECHER
No man is sane who does not know how to be insane on proper occasions.
HENRY WARD BEECHER
In this world it is not what we take up, but what we give up, that makes us rich.
HENRY WARD BEECHER
Suffering is part of the divine idea.
HENRY WARD BEECHER
The strength of a man consists in finding out the way God is going, and going that way.
HENRY WARD BEECHER
We sleep, but the loom of life never stops, and the pattern which was weaving when the sun went down...
HENRY WARD BEECHER
Theology is a science of mind applied to God.
HENRY WARD BEECHER
Theology is but our ideas of truth classified and arranged.
HENRY WARD BEECHER
The Church is not a gallery for the exhibition of eminent Christians, but a school for the education...
HENRY WARD BEECHER
Expedients are for the hour, but principles are for the ages.
HENRY WARD BEECHER
No matter what looms ahead, if you can eat today, enjoy the sunlight today, mix good cheer with frie...
HENRY WARD BEECHER
It is not well for a man to pray cream and live skim milk.
HENRY WARD BEECHER
The meanest, most contemptible kind of praise is that which first speaks well of a man, and then qua...
HENRY WARD BEECHER
A tool is but the extension of a man's hand, and a machine is but a complex tool. And he that invent...
HENRY WARD BEECHER
Nothing dies so hard, or rallies so often as intolerance.
HENRY WARD BEECHER
Good nature is worth more than knowledge, more than money, more than honor, to the persons who posse...
HENRY WARD BEECHER
The difference between perseverance and obstinacy is, that one often comes from a strong will, and t...
HENRY WARD BEECHER
I don't like these cold, precise, perfect people who, in order not to speak wrong, never speak at al...
HENRY WARD BEECHER
We never know the love of the parent till we become parents ourselves.
HENRY WARD BEECHER
The moment an ill can be patiently handled, it is disarmed of its poison, though not of its pain.
HENRY WARD BEECHER
Victories that are easy are cheap. Those only are worth having which come as the result of hard figh...
HENRY WARD BEECHER
When we borrow trouble, and look forward into the future and see what storms are coming, and distres...
HENRY WARD BEECHER
He is rich or poor according to what he is, not according to what he has.
HENRY WARD BEECHER
It is not work that kills men; it is worry. Work is healthy; you can hardly put more upon a man than...
HENRY WARD BEECHER
All words are pegs to hang ideas on.
HENRY WARD BEECHER
To array a man's will against his sickness is the supreme art of medicine.
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
A library is but the soul's burying ground. It is a land of shadows.
HENRY WARD BEECHER
In things pertaining to enthusiasm, no man is sane who does not know how to be insane on proper occa...
HENRY WARD BEECHER
Mirth is the sweet wine of human life. It should be offered sparkling with zestful life unto God.
HENRY WARD BEECHER
Education is the knowledge of how to use the whole of oneself. Many men use but one or two faculties...
HENRY WARD BEECHER
He who is false to present duty breaks a thread in the loom, and will find the flaw when he may have...
HENRY WARD BEECHER
A man's true state of power and riches is to be in himself.
HENRY WARD BEECHER
A person without a sense of humor is like a wagon without springs-jolted by every pebble in the road...
HENRY WARD BEECHER
Private opinion is weak, but public opinion is almost omnipotent.
HENRY WARD BEECHER
This world is not a platform where you will hear Thalberg-piano-playing. It is a piano manufactory, ...
HENRY WARD BEECHER
The mother's heart is the child's schoolroom.
HENRY WARD BEECHER
Morality is character and conduct such as is required by the circle or community in which the man's ...
HENRY WARD BEECHER
No man is such a conqueror, as the one that has defeated himself.
HENRY WARD BEECHER
Troubles are often the tools by which God fashions us for better things.
HENRY WARD BEECHER
Defeat is a school in which truth always grows strong.
HENRY WARD BEECHER
It is defeat that turns bone to flint; it is defeat that turns gristle to muscle; it is defeat that ...
HENRY WARD BEECHER
Interest works night and day in fair weather and in foul. It gnaws at a man's substance with invisib...
HENRY WARD BEECHER
The most dangerous people are the ignorant.
HENRY WARD BEECHER
The cynic is one who never sees a good quality in a man, and never fails to see a bad one. He is the...
HENRY WARD BEECHER
Remember God's bounty in the year. String the pearls of His favor. Hide the dark parts, except so fa...
HENRY WARD BEECHER
A proud man is seldom a grateful man, for he never thinks he gets as much as he deserves.
HENRY WARD BEECHER
Next to ingratitude the most painful thing to bear is gratitude.
HENRY WARD BEECHER
Gratitude is the fairest blossom which springs from the soul.
HENRY WARD BEECHER
God appoints our graces to be nurses to other men's weaknesses.
HENRY WARD BEECHER
The worst thing in the world next to anarchy, is government.
HENRY WARD BEECHER
He who hunts for flowers will finds flowers; and he who loves weeds will find weeds.
HENRY WARD BEECHER
God's providence is on the side of clear heads.
HENRY WARD BEECHER
Genius unexerted is no more genius than a bushel of acorns is a forest of oaks.
HENRY WARD BEECHER
Every charitable act is a stepping stone toward heaven.
HENRY WARD BEECHER
True obedience is true freedom.
HENRY WARD BEECHER
Every man should keep a fair-sized cemetery in which to bury the faults of his friends.
HENRY WARD BEECHER
Giving The best thing to give to your enemy is forgiveness; to an opponent, tolerance; to a friend, ...
HENRY WARD BEECHER
God pardons like a mother, who kisses the offense into everlasting forgiveness.
HENRY WARD BEECHER
I can forgive, but I cannot forget, is only another way of saying, I will not forgive. Forgiveness o...
HENRY WARD BEECHER
I can forgive, but I cannot forget, is only another way of saying, I cannot forgive.
HENRY WARD BEECHER
Repentance is another name for aspiration.
HENRY WARD BEECHER
The world's battlefields have been in the heart chiefly; more heroism has been displayed in the hous...
HENRY WARD BEECHER
Heaven will be inherited by every man who has heaven in his soul.
HENRY WARD BEECHER
The head learns new things, but the heart forever practices old experiences.
HENRY WARD BEECHER
It's not the work which kills people, it's the worry. It's not the revolution that destroys machiner...
HENRY WARD BEECHER
There is no faculty of the human soul so persistent and universal as that of hatred.
HENRY WARD BEECHER
He is greatest whose strength carries up the most hearts by the attraction of his own.
HENRY WARD BEECHER
Laws and institutions, like clocks, must occasionally be cleaned, wound up, and set to true time.
HENRY WARD BEECHER
Mirth is God's medicine. Everybody ought to bathe in it. Grim care, moroseness, anxiety--all this ru...
HENRY WARD BEECHER
Laughter is day, and sobriety is night; a smile is the twilight that hovers gently between both, mor...
HENRY WARD BEECHER
In this world, full often, our joys are only the tender shadows which our sorrows cast.
HENRY WARD BEECHER
Gambling with cards or dice or stocks is all one thing. It's getting money without giving an equival...
HENRY WARD BEECHER
See that each hour's feelings, and thoughts and actions are pure and true; then your life will be al...
HENRY WARD BEECHER
Fear secretes acids; but love and trust are sweet juices.
HENRY WARD BEECHER
The babe at first feeds upon the mother's bosom, but it is always on her heart.
HENRY WARD BEECHER
Our days are a kaleidoscope. Every instant a change takes place in the contents. New harmonies, new ...
HENRY WARD BEECHER
A cup of coffee - real coffee - home-browned, home ground, home made, that comes to you dark as a ha...
HENRY WARD BEECHER
The ignorant classes are the dangerous classes.
HENRY WARD BEECHER
A Christian is nothing but a sinful man who has put himself to school for Christ for the honest purp...
HENRY WARD BEECHER
The test of Christian character should be that a man is a joy-bearing agent to the world.
HENRY WARD BEECHER
There never was a person who did anything worth doing, who did not receive more than he gave.
HENRY WARD BEECHER
The soul without imagination is what an observatory would be without a telescope.
HENRY WARD BEECHER
We are not to make the ideas of contentment and aspiration quarrel, for God made them fast friends. ...
HENRY WARD BEECHER
All ambitions are lawful except those that climb upward on the miseries or credulities of mankind.
HENRY WARD BEECHER
God made man to go by motives, and he will not go without them, any more than a boat without steam o...
HENRY WARD BEECHER
Life would be a perpetual flea hunt if a man were obliged to run down all the innuendoes, inveraciti...
HENRY WARD BEECHER
Clothes and manners do not make the man; but when he is made, they greatly improve his appearance
HENRY WARD BEECHER
The dog is the god of frolic.
HENRY WARD BEECHER
The real democratic American idea is, not that every man shall be on a level with every other man, b...
HENRY WARD BEECHER
Affliction comes to us all, not to make us sad, but sober; not to make us sorry, but to make us wise...
HENRY WARD BEECHER
We are always on the anvil; by trials God is shaping us for higher things.
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 ...
HENRY WARD BEECHER
When a nation's young men are conservative, its funeral bell is already rung.
HENRY WARD BEECHER
A book is a garden, an orchard, a storehouse, a party, a company by the way, a counselor, a multitud...
HENRY WARD BEECHER
Books are not made for furniture, but there is nothing else that so beautifully furnishes a house.
HENRY WARD BEECHER
Where is human nature so weak as in the bookstore?
HENRY WARD BEECHER
The philosophy of one century is the common sense of the next.
HENRY WARD BEECHER
There are many persons who look on Sunday as a sponge to wipe out the sins of the week
HENRY WARD BEECHER
Compassion will cure more sins than condemnation.
HENRY WARD BEECHER
Clothes and manners do not make the man; but, when he is made, they greatly improve his appearance.
HENRY WARD BEECHER
Indeed, unless a man can link his written thoughts with the everlasting wants of men, so that they ...
HENRY WARD BEECHER
Now comes the mystery.
HENRY WARD BEECHER
Many men build as cathedrals were built, the part nearest the ground finished; but that part which ...
HENRY WARD BEECHER
Many men are mere warehouses full of merchandise--the head, the heart, are stuffed with goods. . . ...
HENRY WARD BEECHER
Affliction comes to us, not to make us sad but sober; not to make us sorry but wise.
HENRY WARD BEECHER
A tool is but the extension of a man's hand, and a machine is but a complex tool. And he that inve...
HENRY WARD BEECHER
How things look on the outside of us depends on how things are on the inside of us.
HENRY WARD BEECHER
The difference between perseverance and obstinacy is that one often comes from a strong will, and t...
HENRY WARD BEECHER
The difference between perseverance and obstinacy is that one often comes from a strong will, and th...
HENRY WARD BEECHER
No man is sane who does not know how to be insane on the proper occasions.
HENRY WARD BEECHER
Doctrine is nothing but the skin of truth set up and stuffed.
HENRY WARD BEECHER
He who is false to present duty breaks a thread in the loom, and will find the flaw when he may hav...
HENRY WARD BEECHER
Every father should remember that one day his son will follow his example instead of his advice
HENRY WARD BEECHER
Children are the hands by which we take hold of heaven.
HENRY WARD BEECHER
The dog was created especially for children. He is the god of frolic.
HENRY WARD BEECHER
Never forget what a man says to you when he is angry.
HENRY WARD BEECHER
Do not be afraid of defeat. you are never so near victory as when defeated in a good cause
HENRY WARD BEECHER
The meanest, most contemptible kind of praise is that which first speaks well of a man, and then qua...
HENRY WARD BEECHER
The difference between perseverance and obstinacy is that one comes from a strong will; and the othe...
HENRY WARD BEECHER
A man's true state of power and riches is to be in himself.
HENRY WARD BEECHER
We never know the love of a parent till we become parents ourselves.
HENRY WARD BEECHER
Every artist dips his brush in his own soul, and paints his own nature into his pictures.
HENRY WARD BEECHER
The real man is one who always finds excuses for others, but never excuses himself.
HENRY WARD BEECHER
Hold yourself responsible for a higher standard than anybody expects of you. Never excuse yourself.
HENRY WARD BEECHER
The mother's heart is the child's schoolroom.
HENRY WARD BEECHER
It is the heart that makes a man rich. He is rich according to what he is, not according to what he ...
HENRY WARD BEECHER
There is no friendship, no love, like that of the parent for the child.
HENRY WARD BEECHER
The sun does not shine for a few trees and flowers, but for the wide world's joy.
HENRY WARD BEECHER
A person without a sense of humor is like a wagon without springs. It's jolted by every pebble o...
HENRY WARD BEECHER
A library is not a luxury but one of the necessities of life.
HENRY WARD BEECHER
Faith is spiritualized imagination.
HENRY WARD BEECHER
The world's battlefields have been in the heart chiefly; more heroism has been displayed in the ...
HENRY WARD BEECHER
The unthankful heart discovers no mercies; but the thankful heart will find, in every hour, some hea...
HENRY WARD BEECHER
The babe at first feeds upon the mother's bosom, but it is always on her heart.
HENRY WARD BEECHER
To array a man's will against his sickness is the supreme art of medicine.
HENRY WARD BEECHER
Greatness lies, not in being strong, but in the right using of strength; and strength is not used ri...
HENRY WARD BEECHER
The art of being happy lies in the power of extracting happiness from common things.
HENRY WARD BEECHER
Of all the music that reached farthest into heaven, it is the beating of a loving heart.
HENRY WARD BEECHER
Laws and institutions are constantly tending to gravitate. Like clocks, they must be occasionally ...
HENRY WARD BEECHER
I can forgive, but I cannot forget, is only another way of saying, I will not forgive. Forgiveness o...
HENRY WARD BEECHER
Selfishness is that detestable vice which no one will forgive in others, and no one is without himse...
HENRY WARD BEECHER
Gambling with cards or dice or stocks is all one thing. It's getting money without giving an equ...
HENRY WARD BEECHER
Take all the robes of all the good judges that have ever lived on the face of the earth, and they wo...
HENRY WARD BEECHER
A tool is but the extension of a man's hand, and a machine is but a complex tool. He that invents a ...
HENRY WARD BEECHER
The cynic is one who never sees a good quality in a man, and never fails to see a bad one. He is a h...
HENRY WARD BEECHER
A noble man compares and estimates himself by an idea which is higher than himself; and a mean man, ...
HENRY WARD BEECHER
Troubles are often the tools God fashions us for better things.
HENRY WARD BEECHER
Flowers are the sweetest things God ever made and forgot to put a soul into.
HENRY WARD BEECHER
It is one of the severest tests of friendship to tell your friend his faults. So to love a man that ...
HENRY WARD BEECHER
Young love is a flame; very pretty, often very hot and fierce, but still only light and flickering. ...
HENRY WARD BEECHER
A library is but the soul's burial-ground. It is the land of shadows.
HENRY WARD BEECHER
"A library is not a luxury but one of the necessities of life."
HENRY WARD BEECHER
A person without a sense of humor is like a wagon without springs. It's jolted by every pebble on th...
HENRY WARD BEECHER
Flowers have an expression of countenance as much as men and animals. Some seem to smile; some hav...
HENRY WARD BEECHER
As for marigolds, poppies, hollyhocks, and valorous sunflowers, we shall never have a garden withou...
HENRY WARD BEECHER
The power of hiding ourselves from one another is mercifully given, for men are wild beasts, and wou...
HENRY WARD BEECHER
You never know till you try to reach them how accessible men are; but you must approach each man by ...
HENRY WARD BEECHER
Repentance may begin instantly, but reformation often requires a sphere of years.
HENRY WARD BEECHER
It usually takes 100 years to make a law, and then, after it's done its work, it usually takes 100 y...
HENRY WARD BEECHER
There are joys which long to be ours. God sends ten thousands truths, which come about us like birds...
HENRY WARD BEECHER
A grindstone that had not grit in it, how long would it take to sharpen an ax? And affairs that had ...
HENRY WARD BEECHER
The first hour of the morning is the rudder of the day.
HENRY WARD BEECHER
Riches are not an end of life, but an instrument of life.
HENRY WARD BEECHER
Work is not a curse, but drudgery is!
HENRY WARD BEECHER
In the ordinary business of life, industry can do anything which genius can do, and very many things...
HENRY WARD BEECHER