Famous Quotes by Henry Ward Beecher (122 Quotations)

Every man should keep a fair-sized cemetery in which to bury the faults of his friends.

Henry Ward Beecher – [Forgiveness]

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

Henry Ward Beecher – [Principles]

Fear secretes acids; but love and trust are sweet juices.

Henry Ward Beecher – [Fear]

Gambling with cards or dice or stocks is all one thing. It's getting money without giving an equivalent for it.

Henry Ward Beecher – [Investments]

Genius unexerted is no more genius than a bushel of acorns is a forest of oaks.

Henry Ward Beecher – [Genius]

Giving The best thing to give to your enemy is forgiveness; to an opponent, tolerance; to a friend, your heart; to your child, a good example; to a father, deference; to your mother, conduct that will make her proud of you; to yourself, respect; to all men.

Henry Ward Beecher – [Forgiveness]

God appoints our graces to be nurses to other men's weaknesses.

Henry Ward Beecher – [Grace]

God made man to go by motives, and he will not go without them, any more than a boat without steam or a balloon without gas.

Henry Ward Beecher – [Motivation]

God pardons like a mother, who kisses the offense into everlasting forgiveness.

Henry Ward Beecher – [Forgiveness]

God's providence is on the side of clear heads.

Henry Ward Beecher – [Providence]

Good nature is worth more than knowledge, more than money, more than honor, to the persons who possess it.

Henry Ward Beecher – [Temperament]

Gratitude is the fairest blossom which springs from the soul.

Henry Ward Beecher – [Gratitude]

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

Henry Ward Beecher – [Influence]

He is rich or poor according to what he is, not according to what he has.

Henry Ward Beecher – [Worth]

He who hunts for flowers will finds flowers; and he who loves weeds will find weeds.

Henry Ward Beecher – [Gossip]

He who is false to present duty breaks a thread in the loom, and will find the flaw when he may have forgotten its cause.

Henry Ward Beecher – [Duty]

Heaven will be inherited by every man who has heaven in his soul.

Henry Ward Beecher – [Heaven]

Hold yourself responsible for a higher standard than anybody else expects of you, never excuse yourself.

Henry Ward Beecher – [Responsibility]

I can forgive, but I cannot forget, is only another way of saying, I will not forgive. Forgiveness ought to be like a canceled note — torn in two, and burned up, so that it never can be shown against one.

Henry Ward Beecher – [Forgiveness]

I don't like these cold, precise, perfect people who, in order not to speak wrong, never speak at all, and in order not to do wrong, never do anything.

Henry Ward Beecher – [Perfection]