Henry Ward Beecher Quotes
Hold yourself responsible for a higher standard than anybody expects of you. Never excuse yourself.
Quotes to Explore
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It's very different to have this kid that I'm truly responsible for.
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Each is responsible for his own actions.
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As an artist, I can't be responsible for how people interpret material.
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I think higher education is over-regulated.
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If Muslims curse the Christians, then the Christians will curse the Muslims. And people will curse Allah, and Allah will hold us responsible for that.
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Praise those of your critics for whom nothing is up to standard.
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We are responsible for our incredulity.
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Design, if it is to be ecologically responsible and socially responsive, must be revolutionary and radical.
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I am responsible for me. I can kind of take care of what I need to do and should do what I like to do.
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It means, people who are in high and responsible positions, if they go against righteousness, righteousness itself will get transformed into a destroyer.
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TV chefs are not responsible for people's consumption of fibre; this is not our job.
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They need a new community on higher ground.
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Well, in terms of what a camera does. Again, you go back to that original idea that what you photograph is responsible for how it [the photograph] looks. And it's not plastic, in a way. The problem is unique in photographic terms.
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The constitutional standard is reasonable. ... I am convinced that we are lawful because what it is we are doing is reasonable.
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I know of no higher fortitude than stubborness in the face of overwhelming odds.
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You are responsible for your life. You can't keep blaming somebody else for your dysfunction. Life is really about moving on.
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You're responsible for yourself. You messed up your life, and it's up to you to fix it. No one else is going to do it for you -- for any of you.
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Nobody but you is responsible for your life. You are responsible for your life. What is your life? What is all life? What is every flower, every rock, every tree? Energy. And you're responsible for the energy you create for yourself, and you're responsible for the energy that you bring to others.
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When you have thrown a stone, you cannot afterwards bring it back again, but nevertheless you are responsible for having taken up the stone and flung it, for the origin of the act was within you. Similarly the unjust and profligate might at the outset have avoided becoming so, and therefore they are so voluntarily, although when they have become unjust and profligate it is no longer open to them not to be so.
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I'm living up to my own self-critical standard of doing theater in a lead position, the way I feel like I should be doing it. People are liking it, and it's all working. Just that, in any actor's life, is profound. That's what I was enjoying with the process.
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There are very, very few brands that will be brave enough to really, completely take a step back and not to try and control what is considered beautiful.
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I've got about 27 gigs right now. I've got radio, I've got television, I've got The Washington Post.
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A vulgar man, in any ill that happens to him, blames others; a novice in philosophy blames himself; and a philosopher blames neither, the one nor the other.
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Hold yourself responsible for a higher standard than anybody expects of you. Never excuse yourself.
