Henry Ward Beecher Quotes on Man (65 Quotes)

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.

He that would look with contempt on the pursuits of the farmer, is not worthy the name of a man

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

The cynic is one who never sees a good quality in a man, and never fails to see a bad one. He is the human owl, vigilant in darkness and blind to light, mousing for vermin, and never seeing noble game. The cynic puts all human actions into two classes openly bad and secretly bad.

No man is more cheated than the selfish man.

There is no greater crime than to stand between a man and his development to take any law or institution and put it around him like a collar, and fasten it there, so that as he grows and enlarges, he presses against it till he suffocates and dies.

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

When a nation's young men are conservative, its funeral bell is already rung.

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

If a man meets with injustice, it is not required that he shall not be roused to meet it but if he is angry after he has had time to think upon it, that is sinful. The flame is not wring, but the coals are.

Never forget what a man has said to you when he was angry. If he has charged you with anything, you better look it up.

Every young man would do well to remember that all successful business stands on the foundation of morality.

If a man cannot be a Christian in the place where he is, he cannot be a Christian anywhere.

Many men are mere warehouses full of merchandise--the head, the heart, are stuffed with goods. . . . There are apartments in their souls which were once tenanted by taste, and love, and joy, and worship, but they are all deserted now, and the rooms a

Giving The best thing to give to your enemy is forgiveness to an opponent, tolerance to a friend, your heart to your child, a good example to a father, deference to your mother, conduct that will make her proud of you to yourself, respect to all men.

It is a man dying with his harness on that angels love to escort upward.

If any man is rich and powerful he comes under the law of God by which the higher branches must take the burnings of the sun, and shade those that are lower by which the tall trees must protect the weak plants beneath them.

I never knew an early-rising, hard-working, prudent man, careful of his earnings, and strictly honest who complained of bad luck.

The power of hiding ourselves from one another is mercifully given, for men are wild beasts, and would devour one another but for this protection

The meanest, most contemptible kind of praise is that which first speaks well of a man, and then qualifies it with a But.

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

It is the very wantonness of folly for a man to search out the frets and burdens of his calling and give his mind every day to a consideration of them. They belong to human life. They are inevitable. Brooding only gives them strength.

Sharp men, like sharp needles, break easy, though they pierce quick.

A tool is but the extension of a mans hand and a machine is but a complex tool and he that invents a machine augments the power of man and the well-being of mankind.

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.

Sorrow makes men sincere.

Law represents the effort of man to organize society; governments, the efforts of selfishness to overthrow liberty.

You never know till you try to reach them how accessible men are but you must approach each man by the right door.

When a man says that he is perfect already, there are only two places for him, and that is heaven or the lunatic asylum.

Man is at the bottom an animal, midway a citizen, and at the top divine. But the climate of this world is such that few ripen at the top.

Every man should be born again on the first day of January. Start with a fresh page. Take up one hole more in the buckle if necessary, or let down one, according to circumstances but on the first of January let every man gird himself once more, with his face to the front, and take no interest in the things that were and are past.

Men are like trees each one must put forth the leaf that is created in him.

It is not well for a man to pray cream and live skim milk.

Every man should keep a fair-sized cemetery in which to bury the faults of his friends.

Men will let you abuse them only if you make them laugh.

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. -

The test of Christian character should be that a man is a joy-bearing agent to the world.

Education is the knowledge of how to use the whole of oneself. Many men use but one or two faculties out of the score with which they are endowed. A man is educated who knows how to make a tool of every facultyhow to open it, how to keep it sharp, and how to apply it to all practical purposes.

Men strengthen each other in their faults. Those who are alike associate together, repeat the things which all believe, defend and stimulate their common faults of disposition, and each one receives from the others a reflection of his own egotism.

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

Well-married, a man is winged ill-matched, he is shackled.

If you attempt to beat a man down and so get his goods for less than a fair price, you are attempting to commit burglary as much as though you broke into his shop to take the things without paying for them.

Conceited men often seem a harmless kind of men, who, by an overweening self-respect, relieve others from the duty of respecting them at all.

Clothes and manners do not make the man; but, when he is made, they greatly improve his appearance.

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

Men will let you abuse them if only you will make them laugh.

The real democratic idea is, not that every man shall be on a level with every other, but that every one shall have liberty, without hindrance, to be what God made him

A grindstone that had not grit in it, how long would it take to sharpen an axe And affairs that had not grit in them how long would they take to make a man.

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.

Some men are like pyramids, which are very broad where they touch the ground, but grow narrow as they reach the sky.