Henry Ward Beecher Famous Quotations

Henry Ward Beecher (1813-1887) was a prominent, theologically liberal American Congregationalist clergyman, social reformer, abolitionist, and speaker. These famous quotes dealing with goals, achievement, and success have been attributed to him.

A reputation for good judgment, for fair dealing, for truth, and for rectitude, is itself a fortune.
All words are pegs to hang ideas on.
Every tomorrow has two handles. We can take hold of it with the handle of anxiety or the handle of faith.
Every young man would do well to remember that all successful business stands on the foundation of morality.
It is not the going out of the port, but the coming in, that determines the success of a voyage.
It is one of the severest tests of friendship to tell your friend his faults. So to love a man that you cannot bear to see a stain upon him, and to speak painful truth through loving words, that is friendship.
It is the heart that makes a man rich. He is rich according to what he is, not according to what he has.
Of all the music that reached farthest into heaven, it is the beating of a loving heart.
Our best successes often come after our greatest disappointments.
Success is full of promise till one gets it, and then it seems like a nest from which the bird has flown.
The ability to convert ideas to things is the secret of outward success.
To become an able and successful man in any profession, three things are necessary, nature, study and practice.
We not only live among men, but there are airy hosts, blessed spectators, sympathetic lookers-on, that see and know and appreciate our thoughts and feelings and acts.