Henry Ward Beecher - Wisdom Quotes

He is no fool who gives what he cannot keep to gain what he cannot lose.

We are what our thoughts have made us; so take care about what you think. Words are secondary. Thoughts live; they travel far.

It's not what you look at that matters, it's what you see.

It's not what happens to you, but how you react to it that matters.

All of us, at certain moments of our lives, need to take advice and to receive help from other people.

O, what a tangled web we weave when first we practise to deceive!

The pessimist complains about the wind; the optimist expects it to change; the realist adjusts the sails.

Everything that irritates us about others can lead us to an understanding of ourselves.

Even if you're on the right track, you'll get run over if you just sit there.

Only put off until tomorrow what you are willing to die having left undone.