Henry Ward Beecher Quotes About Strength

• Hold yourself responsible for a higher standard than anybody expects of you. Never excuse yourself.

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Inspirational, Strength, Success

• Greatness lies, not in being strong, but in the right using of strength; and strength is not used rightly when it serves only to carry a man above his fellows for his own solitary glory. He is the greatest whose strength carries up the most hearts by the attraction of his own.

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Strength, Being Strong, Loneliness

  Henry Ward Beecher (1858). “Life Thoughts”, p.33

• Greatness lies not in being strong, but in the right use of strength.

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Inspirational, Strength, Success

  Henry Ward Beecher (1858). “Life Thoughts”, p.33

• He is greatest whose strength carries up the most hearts by the attraction of his own.

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Strength, Leadership, Being Strong

  Henry Ward Beecher (1858). “Life thoughts gathered from the extemporaneous discourses of Henry Ward Beecher, by E.D. Procter”, p.33

• The strength of a man consists in finding out the way God is going, and going that way.

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Strength, War, Men

  Henry Ward Beecher (1858). “Life Thoughts”, p.34

• It is not when the cable lies coiled up on the deck that you know how strong or how weak it is; it is when it is put to the test.

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Strength, Strong, Lying

  Henry Ward Beecher (1866). “Royal truths”, p.111

• A cobweb is as good as the mightiest cable when there is strain upon it.

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Strength, Cobwebs, Strain

• The strong are God's natural protectors of the weak.

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Strength, Strong, Weak

  Henry Ward Beecher, Truman Jeremiah Ellinwood (1872). “The Sermons of Henry Ward Beecher in Plymouth Church, Brooklyn”, p.150

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