Quotes by Beecher, Henry Ward

Keep a fair-sized cemetery in your back yard, in which to bury the fau >>

Success is full of promise till one gets it, and then it seems like a >>

It is not work that kills men; it is worry. Work is healthy; you can h >>

Quotations about Ideas

Many ideas are good for a limited time -- not forever. >>

Concepts, like individuals, have their histories and are just as incap >>

A pile of rocks ceases to be a rock when somebody contemplates it with >>

We are not to make the ideas of contentment and aspiration quarrel, for God made them fast friends. A man may aspire, and yet be quite content until it is time to raise; and both flying and resting are but parts of one contentment. The very fruit of the gospel is aspiration. It is to the heart what spring is to the earth, making every root, and bud, and bough desire to be more. -

Beecher, Henry Ward