More quotes by Henry Ward Beecher

"‎Hold yourself responsible for a higher standard than anybody else expects of you. Never excuse yourself. Never pity yourself. Be a hard master to yourself-and be lenient to everybody else."
"Every tomorrow has two handles. We can take hold of it with the handle of anxiety or the handle of faith."
"Hold yourself to a higher standard than anyone else expects of you. Never excuse yourself."
"The soul without imagination is what an observatory would be without a telescope."
"Where is human nature so weak as in the bookstore?"