#elf

And partly, the worst thing you could do in my family was need something from someone. So physical strength represented an avenue of self-sufficiency to me. ↗

— Alison Bechdel

#could #family #me #need #partly

I just have this sort of entrepreneurial spirit and I work really hard at promoting myself. ↗

— Alison Bechdel

#entrepreneurial spirit #hard #i #just #myself

The discipline you learn and character you build from setting and achieving a goal can be more valuable than the achievement of the goal itself. ↗

— Bo Bennett

#achieving #build #character #discipline #goal

I forced myself to think what is the new concept and it became clear to me that it was risk, not only in technology and ecology, but in life and employment, too. ↗

— Ulrich Beck

#clear #concept #ecology #employment #forced

I'm a self-taught musician aside from what I've been able to pick up from other players. ↗

— Walter Becker

#aside #been #i #musician #other

What I want to show in my work is the idea which hides itself behind so-called reality. ↗

— Max Beckmann

#hides #i #idea #itself #reality

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

— Henry Ward Beecher

#anybody #excuse #expects #higher #higher standard

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

— Henry Ward Beecher

#excuses #finds #himself #man #never

I can intellectualize myself out of anything. ↗

— James Van Der Beek

#i #i can #myself #out

What you are, you are by accident of birth; what I am, I am by myself. There are and will be a thousand princes; there is only one Beethoven. ↗

— Ludwig van Beethoven

#am #beethoven #birth #i #i am