Skip to content

Men Quotes by Henry Ward Beecher

289 Men quotes by Henry Ward Beecher

All Men quotes Henry Ward Beecher’s page

Beecher compares a tear in a man's eye to a lens that reveals hidden worlds. He says the best lessons come from mistakes and that honest, hard‑working people rarely blame bad luck. He also claims a sensible woman's quiet smile can outweigh the influence of many men.

Rate this collection: ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ No ratings yet

Think of a man in a chronic state of anger!

Henry Ward Beecher

Image

No man is more cheated than the selfish man.

Henry Ward Beecher

Image

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

Henry Ward Beecher

Image

Men can make an idol of the Bible.

Henry Ward Beecher

Image

Books are not men and yet they stay alive.

Henry Ward Beecher

Image

Sorrow makes men sincere.

Henry Ward Beecher

Image

God never made anything else so beautiful as man.

Henry Ward Beecher

Image

Trouble teaches men how much there is in manhood.

Henry Ward Beecher

Image

No grace can save any man unless he helps himself.

Henry Ward Beecher

Image

Men must read for amusement as well as for knowledge.

Henry Ward Beecher

Image

God's men are better than the devil's men, and they ought to act as though they thought they were.

Henry Ward Beecher

Image

It is a man dying with his harness on that angels love to escort upward.

Henry Ward Beecher

Image

A man that does not love praise is not a full man.

Henry Ward Beecher

Image

It is not work that kills men; it is worry. Worry is rust upon the blade.

Henry Ward Beecher

Image

Why is not a rat as good as a rabbit? Why should men eat shrimps and neglect cockroaches?

Henry Ward Beecher

Image

Men will let you abuse them if only you will make them laugh.

Henry Ward Beecher

Image

A door that seems to stand open must be of a man's size, or it is not the door that providence means…

Henry Ward Beecher

Image

Rich men are to bear the infirmities of the poor, and wise are to bear the mistakes of the ignorant.

Henry Ward Beecher

Image

Morality is character and conduct such as is required by the circle or community in which the man's life happens to be…

Henry Ward Beecher

Image

A noble man compares and estimates himself by an idea which is higher than himself, and a mean man, by one lower…

Henry Ward Beecher

Image

His nature is such that our often coming does not tire him. The whole burden of the whole life of every man…

Henry Ward Beecher

Image

A world without a Sabbath would be like a man without a smile, like summer without flowers, and like a homestead without…

Henry Ward Beecher

Image

A man's true estate of power and riches is to be in himself; not in his dwelling or position or external relations,…

Henry Ward Beecher

Image

Money in the hands of one or two men is like a dungheap in a barnyard. So long as it lies in…

Henry Ward Beecher

Image

Business men are to be pitied who do not recognize the fact that the largest side of their secular business is benevolence.…

Henry Ward Beecher

Image

Men think God is destroying them because he is tuning them. The violinist screws up the key till the tense cord sounds…

Henry Ward Beecher

Image

The man who perceives life only with his eye, his ear, his hand, and his tongue, is but little higher than the…

Henry Ward Beecher

Image

Any man can work when every stroke of his hands brings down the fruit rattling from the tree ... but to labor…

Henry Ward Beecher

Image

If a boy is not trained to endure and to bear trouble, he will grow up a girl; and a boy that…

Henry Ward Beecher

Image

Rich men are to bear the infirmities of the poor. Wise men are to bear the mistakes of the ignorant. Strong men…

Henry Ward Beecher

Image

If anyone, then, asks me the meaning of our flag, I say to him - it means just what Concord and Lexington…

Henry Ward Beecher

Image

As the cream abandons the milk from which it took its life, and rises to the top and rides there, so men,…

Henry Ward Beecher

Image

God has intended the great to be great and the little to be little ... The trade unions, under the European system,…

Henry Ward Beecher

Image

It is often said it is no matter what a man believes if he is only sincere. This is true of all…

Henry Ward Beecher

Image

Happy is the man who has that in his soul which acts upon the dejected as April airs upon violet roots. Gifts…

Henry Ward Beecher

Image

Men who stand on any other foundation than the rock Christ Jesus are like birds that build in trees by the side…

Henry Ward Beecher

Image

Very few men acquire wealth in such a manner as to receive pleasure from it. Just as long as there is the…

Henry Ward Beecher

Image

There is a great deal more correctness of thought respecting manhood in bodily things than in moral things. For men's ideas of…

Henry Ward Beecher

Image

There are many persons of combative tendencies, who read for ammunition, and dig out of the Bible iron for balls. They read,…

Henry Ward Beecher

Image

I have known men who thought the object of conversion was to cleanse them as a garment is cleansed, and that when…

Henry Ward Beecher

Image

Other authors on Men

More by Henry Ward Beecher

Astronomers have built telescopes which can show myriads of stars unseen before; but when a man looks through a tear in his own eye,…

Henry Ward Beecher

A lie always needs a truth for a handle to it. The worst lies are those whose blade is false, but whose handle is…

Henry Ward Beecher

Miracles are like candles lit up until the sun rises, and then blown out. Therefore, I am amused when I hear sects and churches…

Henry Ward Beecher

Even a liar tells a hundred truths to one lie; he has to, to make the lie good for anything.

Henry Ward Beecher

Laws are not masters but servants, and he rules them who obey them.

Henry Ward Beecher

Our sweetest experiences of affection are meant to be suggestions of that realm which is the home of the heart.

Henry Ward Beecher

In America there is not one single element of civilization that is not made to depend, in the end, upon public opinion.

Henry Ward Beecher

The best lessons a man ever learns are from his mistakes. It is not for want of schoolmasters that we are still ignorant.

Henry Ward Beecher

I never knew an early-rising, hard-working, prudent man, careful of his earnings, and strictly honest who complained of bad luck.

Henry Ward Beecher

THERE are joys which long to be ours.

Henry Ward Beecher

People may talk about the equality of the sexes! They are not equal. The silent smile of a sensible, loving woman will vanquish ten…

Henry Ward Beecher

Mirthfulness is in the mind and you cannot get it out. It is just as good in its place as conscience or veneration.

Henry Ward Beecher

Mirth is God's medicine. Everybody ought to bathe in it.

Henry Ward Beecher

Some of God's noblest sons, I think, will be selected from those that know how to take wealth, with all its temptations, and maintain…

Henry Ward Beecher

You have seen a ship out on the bay, swinging with the tide, and seeming as if it would follow it; and yet it…

Henry Ward Beecher