"Hold yourself responsible for a higher standard than anybody expects of you. Never excuse yourself" — Henry Ward Beecher

It is better to offer no excuse than a bad one

Source: Letter to Harriot Washington (Oct. 30, 1791)

A human being is not attaining his full heights until he is educated

Great men are seldom over-scrupulous in the arrangement of their attire.

The manly man is one who always finds excuses for others, but never for himself.

Source: Proverbs from Plymouth Pulpit

In this world, a man must either be anvil or hammer

Pray that success will not come any faster than you are able to endure it

Henry Ward Beecher Quote