Henry Ward Beecher Quotes About Life

• The art of being happy lies in the power of extracting happiness from common things.

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Inspirational, Life, Positive

• Of all the music that reached farthest into heaven, it is the beating of a loving heart.

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Love, Life, Friendship

• Gratitude is the fairest blossom which springs from the soul.

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Inspirational, Life, Thankful

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

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Life, Success, Men

  HENRY WARD BEECHER (1859). “LIFE THOUGHTS”, p.154

• Every artist dips his brush in his own soul, and paints his own nature into his pictures.

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Inspirational, Life, Beautiful

  Henry Ward Beecher (1868). “Norwood: Or, Village Life in New England”, p.69

• Pride slays thanksgiving, but a humble mind is the soil out of which thanks naturally grow. A proud man is seldom a grateful man, for he never thinks he gets as much as he deserves.

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Life, Thanksgiving, Gratitude

  henry ward beecher (1858). “life thoughts,”, p.115

• The ability to convert ideas to things is the secret of outward success.

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Inspirational, Life, Success

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

• Tears are often the telescope by which men see far into heaven.

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Inspirational, Life, Positive

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

• We sleep, but the loom of life never stops, and the pattern which was weaving when the sun went down is weaving when it comes up in the morning.

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Life, Good Morning, Time

  Henry Ward Beecher (1887). “Beecher : Christian Philosopher, Pulpit Orator, Patriot and Philantropist: A Volume of Representative Selections from the Sermons, Lectures, Prayers, and Letters of Henry Ward Beecher”

• Every tomorrow has two handles. We can take hold of it with the handle of anxiety or the handle of faith. We should live for the future, and yet should find our life in the fidelities of the present; the last is only the method of the first.

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Life, Faith, Two

• All higher motives, ideals, conceptions, sentiments in a man are of no account if they do not come forward to strengthen him for the better discharge of the duties which devolve upon him in the ordinary affairs of life.

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Life, Men, Ordinary

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

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Life, Anger, Men

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

• In the sacred precinct of that dwelling where the despotic woman wields the sceptre of fierce neatness, one treads as if he carried his life in his hands.

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Life, Women, Hands

  Henry Ward Beecher (1862). “Eyes and ears”, p.160

• A conservative young man has wound up his life before it was unreeled. We expect old men to be conservative but when a nation's young men are so, its funeral bell is already rung.

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Life, Men, Funeral

  Henry Ward Beecher (1858). “Life Thoughts”, p.120

• It is the very wantonness of folly for a man to search out the frets and burdens of his calling and give his mind every day to a consideration of them. They belong to human life. They are inevitable. Brooding only gives them strength.

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Life, Men, Giving

  Henry Ward Beecher (1862). “Eyes and Ears”, p.233

• Christ is risen! There is life, therefore, after death! His resurrection is the symbol and pledge of universal resurrection!

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Life, Resurrection, Christ

• Of all escape mechanisms, death is the most efficient.

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Life, Fear, Atheism

• Expedients are for the hour, but principles are for the ages.

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Life, War, Age

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

• There is no man that lives who does not need to be drilled, disciplined, and developed into something higher and nobler and better than he is by nature. Life is one prolonged birth.

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Life, Men, Doe

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

• In the ordinary business of life, industry can do anything which genius can do, and very many things which it cannot.

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Life, Business, Ordinary

  Henry Ward Beecher (1862). “Eyes and ears”, p.293

• Life is full of amusement to an amusing man.

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Life, Men, Amusing

  Henry Ward Beecher, Eleanor Kirk (1887). “Beecher as a Humorist: Selections from the Published Works of Henry Ward Beecher”

• Business men are to be pitied who do not recognize the fact that the largest side of their secular business is benevolence. ... No man ever manages a legitimate business in this life without doing indirectly far more for other men than he is trying to do for himself.

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Life, Science, Men

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

• Life is a plant that grows out of death.

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Life, Plant, Grows

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

• Our life is in the loom; it rolls up and is hidden as fast as it is woven. It is to be taken out of the loom only when we leave this world; then only shall we see the pattern.

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Life, Taken, Woven

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

• Our life is but a new form of the way men have lived from the beginning.

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Life, Men, Way

  Henry Ward Beecher (1858). “Life Thoughts”, p.10

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