Henry Ward Beecher Quotes

I demand more of myself than anyone else could ever expect.

I'm not perfect. But I hold myself to a high standard every day.

I have to do things for myself, and if those standards are set high, then it's up to me to pass or fail.

I take responsibility for myself and what I do now.

When any of us thinks of ourselves as a role model - whether that's as a parent being observed by their kids or a leader under the microscope of their followers - it creates a natural stepping up of how we carry ourselves and what we expect from ourselves.

My life motto is 'Do my best, so that I can't blame myself for anything.'

The day you take complete responsibility for yourself, the day you stop making any excuses, that's the day you start to the top.

I've upped my standards. Now, up yours.

We must exchange the philosophy of excuse - what I am is beyond my control for the philosophy of responsibility.

We distinguish the excellent man from the common man by saying that the former is the one who makes great demands on himself, and the latter who makes no demands on himself.

My expectations of other people, I double them on myself.

You should have high expectations for yourself and others should come second.

My power for good, whatever it may, would be gone if I didn’t try to live up to the doctrines I have tried to preach.

I'm always confident, always expect high expectations for myself.

I'll demand of myself and my own government what, in the past, I insisted of others.

I expect greatness out of myself.

I'll never give myself an A since I ask a lot from myself.

To be able to know kids one day will want to be like me, I hold myself to a super high standard.

I always try to demand greatness from myself.

I'm a guy who expects a lot from himself.

I don't really expect anything from anyone else that I wouldn't do myself.

At the end of the day, nobody has higher expectations for me than myself. I don't really try to prove anyone wrong anymore as much as I try to prove myself right.

Ultimately, I play for myself, and I take responsibility for my own actions.

One of the most essential yet the hardest truths that I have had to learn is that every person should be his own hardest task-master.

I just try to look into the mirror, and work on the things that I wasn't doing, and I made a promise to myself that after the season, I will look at the same mirror, and say that you did everything you could