Henry Ward Beecher Man Quotations

A proud man is seldom a grateful man, for he never thinks he gets as much as he deserves.

It is the heart that makes a man rich. He is rich according to what he is, not according to what he has.

Never forget what a man says to you when he is angry.

If a man has come to that point where he is so content that he says; I do not want to know any more, or do any more or be any more, he is in a state of which he ought to be changed into a mummy

Success is full of promise till a man gets it; and then it is last year's nest from which the birds have flown

Pride slays thanksgiving, but an humble mind is the soil out of which thanks naturally grow. A proud man is seldom a grateful man, for he never thinks he gets as much as he deserves.

In things pertaining to enthusiasm, no man is sane who does not know how to be insane on proper occasions.

No man can tell whether he is rich or poor by turning to his ledger. It is the heart that makes a man rich. He is rich or poor according to what he is, not according to what he has.

No man is sane who does not know how to be insane on the proper occasions.

No man is such a conqueror as the man who has defeated himself

The blossom cannot tell what becomes of its odor; and no man can tell what becomes of his influence

All men are tempted. There is no man that lives that can't be broken down, provided it is the right temptation, put in the right spot.

When a man sells 11 ounces for 12, he makes a compact with the devil, an sells himself for the value of an ounce.

Refinement that carries us away from our fellow-men is not God's refinement.

It is part and parcel of every man's life to develop beauty in himself. All perfect things have in them an element of beauty.

That is the best baptism that leaves the man cleanest inside.

Good men are not those who now and then do a good act, but men who join one good act to another.

A cunning man overreaches no one half as much as himself.

Ambition is the way in which a vulgar man aspires.