Genius is the ability to act rightly without precedent – the power to do the right thing the first time.
ELBERT HUBBARD
ELBERT HUBBARD
Elbert Hubbard on genius
Elbert Hubbard115 quotes“Genius is the ability to act rightly without precedent – the power to do the right thing the first time.”
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All wages are based primarily on productive power. Anything else would be charity.
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Elbert HubbardElbert Hubbard To make mistakes is human, but to profit from them is divine.
Elbert HubbardElbert Hubbard A little more persistence, a little more effort, and what seemed hopeless failure may turn to glorious success.
Elbert HubbardElbert Hubbard If your religion does not change you, then you had better change your religion.
Elbert HubbardElbert Hubbard Success consists in the climb.
Elbert HubbardElbert Hubbard Self-discipline is the ability to make yourself do what you should do, when you should do it, whether you feel like it or not.
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Elbert HubbardElbert Hubbard Impossible things are simply those which so far have never been done.
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Elbert HubbardElbert Hubbard Politicians regard the public as a cow to be milked.
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