Henry Ward Beecher Quote

Greatness lies, not in being strong, but in the right using of strength; and strength is not used rightly when it serves only to carry a man above his fellows for his own solitary glory. He is the greatest whose strength carries up the most hearts by the attraction of his own.


Life Thoughts: Gathered from the Extemporaneous Discourses of Henry Ward Beecher (ed. 1858)


Greatness lies, not in being strong, but in the right using of strength; and strength is not used rightly when it serves only to carry a man above...

Greatness lies, not in being strong, but in the right using of strength; and strength is not used rightly when it serves only to carry a man above...

Greatness lies, not in being strong, but in the right using of strength; and strength is not used rightly when it serves only to carry a man above...

Greatness lies, not in being strong, but in the right using of strength; and strength is not used rightly when it serves only to carry a man above...