Henry Ward Beecher

Character is what a man really is, while your reputation is merely what others think you are.

Flowers are the sweetest things God ever made and forgot to put a soul into.

Hold yourself responsible for a higher standard than anybody expects of you. Never excuse yourself

In the ordinary business of life, industry can do anything which genius can do, and very many things which it cannot.

A reputation for good judgment, for fair dealing, for truth, and for rectitude, is itself a fortune.

The strength of a man consists in finding out the way in which God is going, and going in that way too.

The imagination is the secret and marrow of civilization.

The manly man is one who always finds excuses for others, but never for himself.

Every artist dips his brush in his own soul, and paints his own nature into his pictures.

Troubles are often the tools by which God fashions us for better things

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

What the heart has once owned and had, it shall never lose

A person without a sense of humor is like a wagon without springs. It's jolted by every pebble on the road

We should not judge people by their peak of excellence; but by the distance they have traveled from the point where they started.

We never know the love of a parent till we become parents ourselves

There is no friendship, no love, like that of the parent for the child

A man's true state of power and riches is to be in himself

In this world it is not what we take up, but what we give up, that makes us rich

Every tomorrow has two handles. We can take hold of it with the handle of anxiety or the handle of faith