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Hold yourself responsible for a higher standard than anybody expects of you. Never excuse yourself.

Hold yourself responsible for a higher standard than anybody expects of you. Never excuse yourself.

Henry Ward Beecher
Inspirational, Strength, Success

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.

Henry Ward Beecher
Strength, Being Strong, Loneliness
Henry Ward Beecher (1858). “Life Thoughts”, p.33

The strength of a man consists in finding out the way God is going, and going that way.

Henry Ward Beecher
Strength, War, Men
Henry Ward Beecher (1858). “Life Thoughts”, p.34

Greatness lies not in being strong, but in the right use of strength.

Henry Ward Beecher
Inspirational, Strength, Success
Henry Ward Beecher (1858). “Life Thoughts”, p.33

It is not when the cable lies coiled up on the deck that you know how strong or how weak it is; it is when it is put to the test.

Henry Ward Beecher
Strength, Strong, Lying
Henry Ward Beecher (1866). “Royal truths”, p.111

He is greatest whose strength carries up the most hearts by the attraction of his own.

Henry Ward Beecher
Strength, Leadership, Being Strong
Henry Ward Beecher (1858). “Life thoughts gathered from the extemporaneous discourses of Henry Ward Beecher, by E.D. Procter”, p.33

A cobweb is as good as the mightiest cable when there is strain upon it.

Henry Ward Beecher
Strength, Cobwebs, Strain

The strong are God's natural protectors of the weak.

Henry Ward Beecher
Strength, Strong, Weak
Henry Ward Beecher, Truman Jeremiah Ellinwood (1872). “The Sermons of Henry Ward Beecher in Plymouth Church, Brooklyn”, p.150

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