Henry Ward Beecher Quotes About Adversity

• It's easier to go down a hill than up it but the view is much better at the top.

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Motivational, Graduation, Perseverance

• Ones best success comes after their greatest disappointments.

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Inspirational, Motivational, Inspiring

• We are always on the anvil; by trials God is shaping us for higher things.

  Henry Ward Beecher

  War, Adversity, Religion

• You have come into a hard world. I know of only one easy place in it, and that is the grave.

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Adversity, World, Easy

• 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.

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Adversity, Reflection, People

• Affliction comes to us all, not to make us sad, but sober; not to make us sorry, but to make us wise; not to make us despondent, but by its darkness to refresh us as the night refreshes the day; not to impoverish, but to enrich us

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Wise, Sorry, Failure

• Adversity is the mint in which God stamps upon man his image and superscription.

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Adversity, Men, Stamps

  Henry Ward Beecher, William Drysdale (1887). “Proverbs from Plymouth Pulpit”

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