Henry Ward Beecher Quotes

Our best successes often come after our greatest disappointments.

Henry Ward Beecher

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: clergyman
  • Nationality: american
  • Birth: June 24, 1813 - March 8, 1887

Topics

FailureBestGreatestComeOur

I think the big thing about Groupon is just people had never seen anything grow quite so fast.

Andrew Mason

PeopleThinkGrowFastNeverBig

If you create an act, you create a habit. If you create a habit, you create a character. If you create a character, you create a destiny.

Andre Maurois

CharacterHabitDestinyYouCreate

I was very much not a follower of labels in school. If anything, I was labeled 'uncool.'

Meaghan Jette Martin

SchoolFollowerAnythingLabelsMuch

Nor bigots who but one way see, through blinkers of authority.

Matthew Green

AuthorityWaySeeThroughWhoNor

To wait idly is the worst of conditions.

Robert Falcon Scott

WaitWorstConditionsIdly

People don't want to be plagued by not knowing-they want answers.

Michael Pitt

PeopleWantAnswers

I've gotten resistance for my entire career.

Judy Gold

CareerResistanceEntire Career

I want to be president because I have the sensitivity, as a woman, to listen. I'm a different candidate... different because I don't belong to powerful, privileged groups, because I'm honest.

Josefina Vazquez Mota

WomanPowerfulWantPresidentListen

When I'm later in the competition, I get antsy. I'm seeing everybody else go and achieve things. It's like I'm just twiddling my thumbs.

Ashton Eaton

CompetitionSeeingAchieveGoThings

It is what we prevent, rather than what we do that counts most in Government.

William Lyon Mackenzie King

GovernmentRatherMostThanCounts

I just don't think that the differences you make by donating to a museum or an art gallery really compare to the differences you make by donating to the charities that fight global poverty.

Peter Singer

ArtFightThinkPovertyYouMuseum

Acknowledging class was always difficult for 'New Democrats' - it was second-wave, it was divisive - but 2008 made retro politics cool again.

Thomas Frank

PoliticsCoolNewClassDifficult

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