Henry Ward Beecher Quotes

The sun shines everywhere, not just at the beach.

The ends you serve that are selfish will take you no further than yourself; but the ends you serve that are for all, in common, will take you even into eternity.

I love the sun.

The glorious lamp of heaven, the sun.

The needs of the many outweigh the needs of the few.

I'm convinced of this: Good done anywhere is good done everywhere.

So extraordinary is Nature with her choicest treasures, spending plant beauty as she spends sunshine, pouring it forth into land and sea, garden and desert. And so the beauty of lilies falls on angels and men, bears and squirrels, wolves and sheep, birds and bees.

When the sun rises, it rises for everyone.

You can turn off the sun, but I'm still gonna shine

It’s time we framed every question - every issue -- not in terms of what’s in it for ‘me,’ but what’s in it for all of us?

Joy increases as you give it, and diminishes as you try to keep it yourself. In giving it, you will accumulate a deposit of joy greater than you ever believed possible.

I believe it is the duty of each of us to act as if the fate of the world depended on him. Admittedly, one man by himself cannot do the job. However, one man can make a difference. We must live for the future of the human race, and not for our own comfort or success.

The essence of love is that what is ours should belong to someone else. Feeling the joy of someone else as joy within ourselves-that is loving.

A good heart is the sun and the moon; or, rather, the sun and not the moon, for it shines bright and never changes.

Let every action aim solely at the common good.

You can be healed of depression if every day you begin the first thing in the morning to consider how you will bring a real joy to someone else.

History calls those men the greatest who have ennobled themselves by working for the common good; experience acclaims as happiest the man who has made the greatest number of people happy.

Everything must be sacrificed, if necessary, for that one sentiment: universality.

This is the rule of most perfect Christianity, its most exact definition, its highest point, namely, the seeking of the common good ... for nothing can so make a person an imitator of Christ as caring for neighbors.

Non nobis solum nati sumus. (Not for ourselves alone are we born.)

To be a socialist is to submit the I to the thou; socialism is sacrificing the individual to the whole.

A democrat must be utterly selfless. He must think and dream not in terms of self or of party, but only of democracy.

If you're spreading light, you don't care where the sunshine goes.

Equip yourself for life, not solely for your own benefit, but for the benefit of the whole community