Henry Ward Beecher Quotes

A house built on sand is, in fair weather, just as good as if builded on a rock. A cobweb is as good as the mightiest chain cable when there is no strain on it. It is trial that proves one thing weak and another strong.

The finest steel has to go through the hottest fire.

The weak sinews become strong by their conflict with difficulties.

She had to have faith not just in trying but in failing. Was she strong enough to fail Was she strong enough not to

Patience is the strength of the weak, impatience is the weakness of the strong.

The answer doesn't lie in learning how to protect ourselves from life-it lies in learning how to become strong enough to let a bit more of it in.

You are good when you walk to your goal firmly and with bold steps. Yet you are not evil when you go thither limping. For those who limp go not backwards. But you who are strong and swift, see that you do not limp before the lame, deeming it kindness.

We can all be weak, but we all have to make a conscious decision to be strong.

Here and there, human nature may be great in times of trial, but generally speaking it is its weakness and not its strength that appears in a sick chamber.

Flowers never emit so sweet and strong a fragrance as before a storm. When a storm approaches thee, be as fragrant as a sweet-smelling flower.

When I am weak, then I am strong.

Nothing on earth is so weak and yielding as water, but for breaking down the firm and strong it has no equal.

It is only the strong who are strengthened by suffering; the weak are made weaker.

Everybody is pretty good in the first quarter. Second quarter, you have a little bump or two on you coming into the half. By the time the third quarter comes around, you're tired, you're laboring. When you come to the fourth quarter, it calls on your character.

Ask for help. Not because you are weak. But because you want to remain strong.

Sometimes our strengths are also our weaknesses. Sometimes to be strong you have to first be weak. You have to share your burdens; you have to lean on other people while you face your problems and yourself.

I would rather have a big burden and a strong back, than a weak back and a caddy to carry life's luggage.

But in my heart I knew that just like the new grass, I wasn't strong enough yet to be walked on

If we don't be going strong, we're going weak, and we can't afford to go weak. We've got too many problems to do that.

You have been told that, even like a chain, you are as weak as your weakest link. This is but half the truth. You are also as strong as your strongest link. To measure you by your smallest deed is to reckon the power of ocean by the frailty of its foam. To judge you by your failures is to cast blame upon the seasons for their inconstancy.

There weren’t many people in this world who would let you be vulnerable and still believe you were strong.

Being silent isn't being strong, it's being a victim.

of being strong and brave. The strong can not be brave. Only the weak can be brave; and yet again, in practice, only those who can be brave can be trusted, in time of doubt, to be strong.

Here's the thing about faith: It gives us the strength to go on when we want to give in. It gives us the courage to get up when we want to lie down. It gives us the power to make a way out of no way when there ain't no way. Just as love can't make you strong until love has made you weak, well, faith can't lift you up until life has knocked you down. With faith or without it, we can't stop the waves. But with it, we don't need to. Because with it we can ride the surf.

Without the strength to endure the crisis, one will not see the opportunity within. It is within the process of endurance that opportunity reveals itself.