Henry Ward Beecher Quotes

That which is given with pride and ostentation is rather an ambition than a bounty.

He who obtains has little. He who scatters has much.

When a man becomes a Christian, he becomes industrious, trustworthy and prosperous. Now, if that man, when he gets all he can and saves all he can, does not give all he can, I have more hope for Judas Iscariot than for that man!

Of myself I must say this: I never was any greedy, scraping grasper, nor a strait fast-holding Prince, nor yet a waster. My heart was never set on any worldly goods. What you bestow on me, I will not hoard it up, but receive it to bestow on you again.

If you have money, and you help people, you don't talk about it. Just do it.

Let him who has given a favor be silent; let he who has received it tell it.

Keep it, keep it!" I answered. "You are very welcome to it! It is only a couple of small things, doesn't amount to anything—about everything I own in the world.

No one has ever become poor by giving.

Riches are not forbidden, but the pride of them is.

To give without any reward, or any notice, has a special quality of its own.

The value of a man should be seen in what he gives and not in what he is able to receive.

I think we were always humble.

The only wealth which you will keep forever is the wealth you have given away.

Show me your hands. Do they have scars from giving? Show me your feet. Are they wounded in service? Show me your heart. Have you left a place for divine love?

At my funeral, if one said, 'Nick was a generous person,' trust me I won't be doing cartwheels in my coffin. Recognition from people is never and never will be a goal. Some people strive for that respect or honor. Living a life to just reach for the position and status is vanity and sin.

Kindness in words creates confidence. Kindness in thinking creates profoundness. Kindness in giving creates love.

Be charitable before wealth makes you covetous.

There are a lot of people with a lot of money, and I'm amazed they don't understand what a great pleasure it can be to give.

He lives to build, not boast, a generous race; No tenth transmitter of a foolish face.

Anyone who has been as successful as I have should want to share those resources. Why not give some of it to charity?

I have somewhere met with the epitaph on a charitable man which has pleased me very much. I cannot recollect the words, but here is the sense of it: 'What I spent I lost; what I possessed is left to others; what I gave away remains with me.'

Whatever God would want me to do... love each other and help others. I want to add, not take away.

Giving is true having.

The extraordinary thing about my mother, she's so modest about me.

Generosity is giving more than you can, and pride is taking less than you need.