Quote

That energy which makes a child hard to manage is the energy which afterwards makes him a manager of life.

Henry Ward Beecher

Change background

T
T
T

Change font

TAGS & TOPICS

Henry Ward Beecher
Journalist
Minister
Politician
Theologian
Litchfield (town)
Connecticut
Children
Afterwards
Life
Manager
Managers
Manage
Child
Energy
Makes
Hard

More quotes by Henry Ward Beecher

Image
I read for three things first, to know what the world has done the last twenty-four hours, and is about to do today second, for the knowledge that I specially want in my work and third, for what will bring my mind into a proper mood.
Henry Ward Beecher
Image
Love is ownership. We own whom we love. The universe is God's because He loves.
Henry Ward Beecher
Image
Sorrow makes men sincere.
Henry Ward Beecher
Image
What could make me love my fellow Christian better than to see that God loves us all as we were all one soul?
Henry Ward Beecher
Image
Everyone has influence, for good or bad, upon others.
Henry Ward Beecher
Image
Walking humbly, you are more of a man than you were when you walked proudly.
Henry Ward Beecher
Image
There never was a liar that had not a spot in him where he could not help admiring truth.
Henry Ward Beecher
Image
A world without a Sabbath would be like a man without a smile, like summer without flowers, and like a homestead without a garden. It is the most joyous day of the week.
Henry Ward Beecher
Image
The dog was created specially for children. He is a god of frolic.
Henry Ward Beecher
Image
Selfishness is that detestable vice which no one will forgive in others, and no one is without himself.
Henry Ward Beecher
Image
Pushing any truth out very far, you are met by a counter-truth.
Henry Ward Beecher
Image
A thoughtful mind, when it sees a nation's flag, sees not the flag, but the nation itself.
Henry Ward Beecher
Image
Every man should use his intellect, not as he uses his lamp in the study, only for his own seeing, but as the lighthouse uses its lamps, that those afar off on the seas may see the shining, and learn their way.
Henry Ward Beecher
Image
Genius unexerted is no more genius than a bushel of acorns is a forest of oaks.
Henry Ward Beecher
Image
Repentance is the turning of the soul from the way of midnight to the point of the coming sun.
Henry Ward Beecher
Image
The true secret of giving advice is, after you have honestly given it, to be perfectly indifferent whether it is taken or not, and never persist in trying to set people right.
Henry Ward Beecher
Image
Do not be afraid because the, community teems with excitement. Silence and death are dreadful. The rush of life, the vigor of earnest men, the conflict of realities, invigorate, cleanse, and establish the truth.
Henry Ward Beecher
Image
All our other faculties seem to have the brown touch of earth upon them, but the imagination carries the very livery of heaven, and is God's self in the soul.
Henry Ward Beecher
Image
Unfruitful emotion is to be suspected. Feeling acts as an impulse, as a spur, as a spring, and when feelings are excited, and they put nothing forward, they are sometimes even dangerous to a man.
Henry Ward Beecher
Image
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.
Henry Ward Beecher