Heroes for a Better World

Henry Ward Beecher
(1813-1887)

American Abolitionist

birthdate: June 24
birthplace:
Lichtfield, Connecticut

QUOTES

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

You never know till you try to reach them how accessible men are; but you must approach each man by the right door.

Be angry, and yet do not sin; do not let the sun go down on your anger.

Education is the knowledge of how to use the whole of oneself. Many men use but one or two faculties out of the score with which they are endowed. A man is educated who knows how to make a tool of every faculty-how to open it, how to keep it sharp, and how to apply it to all practical purposes.

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

Gratitude is the fairest blossom which springs from the soul.

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.

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

Our best successes often come after our greatest disappointments.

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

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

The difference between perseverance and obstinacy is that one comes from a strong will, and the other from a strong won't.

 


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