In this world it is not what we take up, but what we give up, that makes us rich.
Quote by Henry Ward Beecher
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In this world it is not what we take up, but what we give up, that makes us rich.
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Henry Ward Beecher Quotes
- We are always on the anvil by trials God is shaping us for higher things.
- He is greatest whose strength carries up the most hearts by the attraction of his own.
- The ability to convert ideas to things is the secret of outward success.
- Young love is a flame very pretty, often very hot and fierce, but still only light and flickering. The love of the older and disciplined heart is as coals, deep-burning, unquenchable.
- What we call wisdom is the result of all the wisdom of past ages. Our best institutions are like young trees growing upon the roots of the old trunks that have crumbled away.
- Gambling with cards or dice or stocks is all one thing. It's getting money without giving an equivalent for it.
- I never knew how to worship until I knew how to love.
- We are always on the anvil by trials God is shaping us for higher things.
- The real democratic American idea is, not that every man shall be on a level with every other man, but that every man shall have liberty to be what God made him, without hindrance.
- Every charitable act is a stepping stone toward heaven.
Best Quotes
- Live truth instead of professing it.
- We should learn to accept that change is truly the only thing that's going on always, and learn to ride with it and enjoy it.
- You know those movies where the people in the audience are screaming, 'Don't go in that door!' because you know the killer is there? Well, it is the same thing with this debt. We know how this ends.
- It is good to express a thing twice right at the outset and so to give it a right foot and also a left one. Truth can surely stand on one leg, but with two it will be able to walk and get around.
- Fighting a war on terrorism is like fighting against crime. We can never hope to eradicate crime, so we shouldn't bother fighting it.
- The consumer isn't a moron she is your wife.
- I like being able to walk into an old town and find good local food.
- And if small businesspeople say they made it on their own, all they are saying is that nobody else worked seven days a week in their place. Nobody showed up in their place to open the door at five in the morning. Nobody did their thinking, and worrying, and sweating for them.
- Crying is cleansing. There's a reason for tears, happiness or sadness.
- Success is not a good teacher, failure makes you humble.