A man's true state of power and riches is to be in himself.
~ Henry Ward Beecher - [Self-expression]

Selfishness is that detestable vice which no one will forgive in others, and no one is without himself.
~ Henry Ward Beecher - [Selfishness]

The strength of a man consists in finding out the way God is going, and going that way.
~ Henry Ward Beecher - [Strength]

Ones best success comes after their greatest disappointments.
~ Henry Ward Beecher - [Success]

Success is full of promise till one gets it, and then it seems like a nest from which the bird has flown.
~ Henry Ward Beecher - [Success]

To become an able and successful man in any profession, three things are necessary, nature, study and practice.
~ Henry Ward Beecher - [Success]

Suffering is part of the divine idea.
~ Henry Ward Beecher - [Suffering]

Good nature is worth more than knowledge, more than money, more than honor, to the persons who possess it.
~ Henry Ward Beecher - [Temperament]

Theology is a science of mind applied to God.
~ Henry Ward Beecher - [Theology]

Theology is but our ideas of truth classified and arranged.
~ Henry Ward Beecher - [Theology]

A grindstone that had not grit in it, how long would it take to sharpen an ax? And affairs that had not grit in them, how long would they take to make a man?
~ Henry Ward Beecher - [Time and Time Management]

The first hour of the morning is the rudder of the day.
~ Henry Ward Beecher - [Time and Time Management]

We sleep, but the loom of life never stops, and the pattern which was weaving when the sun went down is weaving when it comes up in the morning.
~ Henry Ward Beecher - [Time and Time Management]

A tool is but the extension of a man's hand, and a machine is but a complex tool. And he that invents a machine augments the power of a man and the well-being of mankind.
~ Henry Ward Beecher - [Tools]

When we borrow trouble, and look forward into the future and see what storms are coming, and distress ourselves before they come, as to how we shall avert them if they ever do come, we lose our proper trustfulness in God. When we torment ourselves with imaginary dangers, or trials, or reverses, we have already parted with that perfect love which casteth out fear.
~ Henry Ward Beecher - [Trouble]

Victories that are easy are cheap. Those only are worth having which come as the result of hard fighting.
~ Henry Ward Beecher - [Victory]

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]

The difference between perseverance and obstinacy is that one often comes from a strong will, and the other from a strong won't.
~ Henry Ward Beecher - [Perseverance]

The meanest, most contemptible kind of praise is that which first speaks well of a man, and then qualifies it with a ''But''.
~ Henry Ward Beecher - [Praise]

It is not well for a man to pray cream and live skim milk.
~ Henry Ward Beecher - [Prayer]