Harriet Beecher Stowe Biography | Inspiration Quotations | Motivation Quotes

Harriet Beecher Stowe Motivational Quotations:

• “When you get into a tight place and everything goes against you, till it seems as though you could not hang on a minute longer, never give up then, for that is just the place and time that the tide will turn.”

• “It's a matter of taking the side of the weak against the strong, something the best people have always done.”

•  “Never give up, for that is just the place and time that the tide will turn.”

•  “Everyone confesses that exertion which brings out all the powers of body and mind is the best thing for us; but most people do all they can to get rid of it, and as a general rule nobody does much more than circumstances drive them to do.”

•  “The bitterest tears shed over graves are for words left unsaid and deeds left undone.”

•  “All places where women are excluded tend downward to barbarism; but the moment she is introduced, there come in with her courtesy, cleanliness, sobriety, and order.”

•  “The past, the present and the future are really one: they are today.”

•  “In all ranks of life the human heart yearns for the beautiful; and the beautiful things that God makes are his gift to all alike.”

•  “Most mothers are instinctive philosophers.”

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•  “Friendships are discovered rather than made.”

•  “To be really great in little things, to be truly noble and heroic in the insipid details of everyday life, is a virtue so rare as to be worthy of canonization.”

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• “A man builds a house in England with the expectation of living in it and leaving it to his children; we shed our houses in America as easily as a snail does his shell.” 

• “So much has been said and sung of beautiful young girls, why doesn't somebody wake up to the beauty of old women.”

•  “No one is so thoroughly superstitious as the godless man.”

•  “One would like to be grand and heroic, if one could; but if not, why try at all? One wants to be very something, very great, very heroic; or if not that, then at least very stylish and very fashionable. It is this everlasting mediocrity that bores me.”

•  “A woman's health is her capital.”

•  “Perhaps it is impossible for a person who does no good to do no harm.”

•  “To do common things perfectly is far better worth our endeavor than to do uncommon things respectably.”

•  “Where painting is weakest, namely, in the expression of the highest moral and spiritual ideas, there music is sublimely strong.”

•  “Human nature is above all things lazy.”

• “The obstinacy of cleverness and reason is nothing to the obstinacy of folly and inanity.”