Henry Ward Beecher Quotes About Praise

• A man who does not love praise is not a full man.

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Men, Doe, Flattery

  "Proverbs from Plymouth Pulpit".

• Flattery is praise insincerely given for an interested purpose.

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Criticism, Purpose, Flattery

  Henry Ward Beecher (1862). “Eyes and ears”, p.383

• The meanest, most contemptible kind of praise is that which first speaks well of a man, and then qualifies it with a But.

  Henry Ward Beecher

  War, Men, Firsts

• There can be no barrenness in full summer. The very sand will yield something. Rocks will have mosses, and every rift will have its wind-flower, and every crevice a leaf; while from the fertile soil will be reared a gorgeous troop of growths, that will carry their life in ten thousand forms, but all with praise to God. And so it is when the soul knows its summer. Love redeems its weakness, clothes its barrenness, enriches its poverty, and makes its very desert to bud and blossom as the rose.

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Love, Summer, Flower

• The gravest events dawn with no more noise than the morning star makes in rising. All great developments complete themselves in the world and modestly wait in silence, praising themselves never, and announcing themselves not at all. We must be sensitive, and sensible, if we would see the beginnings and endings of great things. That is our part.

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Morning, Stars, Silence

  Henry Ward Beecher (1866). “Royal truths”, p.5

• There is not a person we employ who does not, like ourselves, desire recognition, praise, gentleness, forbearance, patience.

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Desire, Doe, Recognition

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