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
- Every tomorrow has two handles. We can take hold of it with the handle of anxiety or the handle of faith.
- We are always on the anvil by trials God is shaping us for higher things.
- The soul without imagination is what an observatory would be without a telescope.
- 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.
- God appoints our graces to be nurses to other men's weaknesses.
- We never know the love of a parent till we become parents ourselves.
- Greatness lies, not in being strong, but in the right using of strength and strength is not used rightly when it serves only to carry a man above his fellows for his own solitary glory. He is the greatest whose strength carries up the most hearts by the attraction of his own.
- A man's true state of power and riches is to be in himself.
- No matter what looms ahead, if you can eat today, enjoy today, mix good cheer with friends today enjoy it and bless God for it.
- There are joys which long to be ours. God sends ten thousands truths, which come about us like birds seeking inlet but we are shut up to them, and so they bring us nothing, but sit and sing awhile upon the roof, and then fly away.
Best Quotes
- I think women want to take care of themselves, and I think having a voice in how that is done is very important.
- I suppose I have a really loose interpretation of 'work,' because I think that just being alive is so much work at something you don't always want to do. The machinery is always going. Even when you sleep.
- When, as we must often do, we fear science, we really fear ourselves.
- How goodness heightens beauty!
- I've been on so many movies. Generally, I haven't gotten to be on the ground level. As of two years ago, in 'Dear John,' I got to really be on the ground floor. I wasn't a producer. I felt like I put the work in, and I did have a lot of sway on what got fixed, reshoots, so on and so forth. It felt really good.
- The fascination of shooting as a sport depends almost wholly on whether you are at the right or wrong end of the gun.
- If you can make people understand why freedom is so important through the arts, that would be a big help.
- There is a fundamental situation in which the country has reached rock bottom, that a mother can't send her children out of the house in the morning. The country has reached rock bottom and this needs to be changed.
- If GM had kept up with technology like the computer industry has, we would all be driving $25 cars that got 1,000 MPG.
- Jerusalem is a time bomb that I fear is just waiting to go off.