Henry Ward Beecher Quotes About Failure

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

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Inspirational, Strength, Success

• Ones best success comes after their greatest disappointments.

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Inspirational, Motivational, Inspiring

• The cynic is one who never sees a good quality in a man, and never fails to see a bad one. He is the human owl, vigilant in darkness and blind to light, mousing for vermin, and never seeing noble game.

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Failure, Men, Light

  Henry Ward Beecher (1845). “Lectures to Young Men, on Various Important Subjects”, p.113

• Our best successes often come after our greatest disappointments.

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Inspiring, Disappointment, Failure

• Affliction comes to us all, not to make us sad, but sober; not to make us sorry, but to make us wise; not to make us despondent, but by its darkness to refresh us as the night refreshes the day; not to impoverish, but to enrich us

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Wise, Sorry, Failure

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

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Real, Failure, Men

  Henry Ward Beecher (1858). “Life Thoughts”, p.84

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