Common Quote by Henry Ward Beecher

Do not be troubled because you have not great virtues. God made a million spears of grass where He made one tree. The earth…

— Henry Ward Beecher

The only reason you are not yet a saint is because you do not wholly want to be one.

— Peter Kreeft

I am not a saint or a cripple, I am not a wound; now I will see whether I am a coward.

— Margaret Atwood

We should not mourn for men of high ideals. Rather we should rejoice that we had the privilege of having had them with us,…

— Indira Gandhi

Because of the friends I have known, the honorable people I have met, I know I am no solitary hero of unique causes. I…

— Anonymous

I mourn the loss of thousands of precious lives, but I will not rejoice in the death of one, not even an enemy.

— Martin Luther King, Jr

“Why be a saint unless you could also be a martyr?”

— Louise Penny

To be a saint is to be a little out of one's mind, which is a very good thing to be a little out…

— Frederick Buechner

Mourn if you must, but don't stop fighting.

— Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

The only real sadness, the only real failure, the only great tragedy in life, is not to become a saint.

— Leon Bloy

None mourn more ostentatiously than those who most rejoice at it [a death].

— Tacitus

The only saint is that soul that never weakens, faces everything, and determines to die game.

— Swami Vivekananda