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Henry Ward Beecher
: Hold yourself responsible for a higher standard than anybody else expects of you, never excuse yourself.
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He that is good for making excuses is seldom good for anything else.
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He that is good at making excuses is seldom good at anything else.
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You have to expect things of yourself before you can do them.
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Norman Vincent Peale :
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If you paint in your mind a picture of bright and happy expectations, you put yourself into a condition conducive to your goal.
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Only you can hold yourself back, only you can stand in your own way. Only you can help yourself.
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If you take responsibility for yourself you will develop a hunger to accomplish your dreams.
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You must take personal responsibility. You cannot change the circumstances, the seasons, or the wind, but you can change yourself. That is something you have charge of.
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You have to do it yourself, no one else will do it for you. You must work out your own salvation.
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Daniel C Dennett :
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The distinction between responsible moral agents and beings with diminished or no responsibility is coherent, real, and important. It is coherent, even if in many instances it is hard to apply; it draws an empirically real line, in that we don't all fall on one side; and, most important, the distinction matters: the use we make of it plays a crucial role in the quality and meaning of our lives. [...] We want to hold ourselves and others responsible, but we recognize that our intuitions often support the judgement that a particular individual has "diminished responsibility" because of his or her infirmities, or because of particularly dire circumstances upon upbringing or at the time of action. We also find it plausible to judge that nonhuman animals, infants, and those who are severely handicapped mentally are not responsible at all. But since we are all more or less imperfect, will there be anyone left to be responsible after we have excused all those with good excuses? [...] We must set up some efficiently determinable threshold for legal competence, never for a moment supposing that there couldn't be intuitively persuasive "counterexamples" to whatever line we draw, but declaring in advance that such pleas will not be entertained. [...] The effect of such an institution [...] is to create [...] a class of legally culpable agents whose subsequent liability to punishment maintains the credibility of the sanctions of the laws. The institution, if it is to maintain itself, must provide for the fine tuning of its arbitrary thresholds as new information (or misinformation) emerges that might undercut its credibility. One can speculate that there is an optimal setting of the competence threshold (for any particular combination of social circumstances, degree of public sophistication, and so on) that maximizes the bracing effect of the law. A higher than optimal threshold would encourage a sort of malingering on the part of the defendants, which, if recognized by the populace, would diminish their respect for the law and hence diminish its deterrent effect. And a lower than optimal threshold would yield a diminishing return of deterrence and lead to the punishment of individuals who, in the eyes of society, "really couldn't help it." The public perception of the fairness of the law is a critical factor in its effectiveness.
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Every tomorrow has two handles. We can take hold of it with the handle of anxiety or the handle of faith.
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Gratitude is the fairest blossom which springs from the soul.
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A person without a sense of humor is like a wagon without springs-jolted by every pebble in the road.
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Every artist dips his brush in his own soul, and paints his own nature into his pictures.
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Ones best success comes after their greatest disappointments.
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Greatness lies not in being strong, but in the right use of strength.
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He is rich or poor according to what he is, not according to what he has.
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What a mother sings to the cradle goes all the way down to the coffin.
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Every charitable act is a stepping stone towards heaven.
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If grass can grow through cement, love can find you at every time in your life.
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