God will not look you over for medals degrees or diplomas, but for scars.
ELBERT HUBBARD
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Be yourself and think for yourself, and while your conclusions may not be infallible they will be nearer right than the inclusions forced upon you by those who have a personal interest in keeping you in ignorance.
Elbert HubbardElbert Hubbard It is easy to get everything you want, provided you first learn to do without the things you cannot get.
Elbert HubbardElbert Hubbard Reason: The arithmetic of the emotions.
Elbert HubbardElbert Hubbard We will not be dictated to by men with less intelligence, energy, initiative and ambition than we ourselves possess.
Elbert HubbardElbert Hubbard What we call God’s justice is only man’s idea of what he would do if he were God.
Elbert HubbardElbert Hubbard If you have health, you probably will be happy, and if you have health and happiness, you have all the wealth you need, even if it is not all you want.
Elbert HubbardElbert Hubbard He who does not understand your silence will probably not understand your words.
Elbert HubbardElbert Hubbard If you can’t answer a man’s arguments, all is not lost; you can still call him vile names.
Elbert HubbardElbert Hubbard The secret of success is this: there is no secret of success.
Elbert HubbardElbert Hubbard The man who knows it can’t be done counts the risk, not the reward.
Elbert HubbardElbert Hubbard Formal religion was organized for slaves: it offered them consolation which earth did not provide.
Elbert HubbardElbert Hubbard All success consists in this: You are doing something for somebody – benefiting humanity – and the feeling of success comes from the consciousness of this.
Elbert HubbardElbert Hubbard Faith is the effort to believe what your common sense tells you is not true.
Elbert HubbardElbert Hubbard Of all the mental and physical polluters of life, nothing exercises such a poisonous effect as fear.
Elbert HubbardElbert Hubbard Anyone who idolizes you is going to hate you when he discovers that you are fallible. He never forgives. He has deceived himself, and he blames you for it.
Elbert HubbardElbert Hubbard A failure is a man who has blundered, but is not able to cash in the experience.
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