Never explain – your friends do not need it and your enemies will not believe you anyway.
ELBERT HUBBARDMan is not what he thinks he is, but what he thinks, he is.
More Elbert Hubbard Quotes
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Art is not a thing; it is a way.
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No one ever gets far unless he accomplishes the impossible at least once a day.
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The happiness of this life depends less on what befalls you than the way in which you take it.
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We will not be dictated to by men with less intelligence, energy, initiative and ambition than we ourselves possess.
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One machine can do the work of fifty ordinary men. No machine can do the work of one extraordinary man.
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Academic education is the act of memorizing things read in books, and things told by college professors who got their education mostly by memorizing things read in books.
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Failure — The man who can tell others what to do and how to do it, but never does it himself.
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The greatest mistake you can make in life is continually fearing that you’ll make one.
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It does not take much strength to do things, but it requires great strength to decide on what to do.
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The best preparation for good work tomorrow is to do good work today.
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Money never made a fool of anybody; it only shows them up.
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Formal religion was organized for slaves: it offered them consolation which earth did not provide.
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Love grows by giving. The love we give away is the only love we keep. The only way to retain love is to give it away.
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A retentive memory may be a good thing, but the ability to forget is the true token of greatness.
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Do not take life too seriously. You will never get out of it alive.
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As we grow better, we meet better people.
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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.
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The greatest mistake a person can make is to be afraid of making one.
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The man who has no problems is out of the game.
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A failure is a man who has blundered, but is not able to cash in the experience.
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Know what you want to do, hold the thought firmly, and do every day what should be done, and every sunset will see you that much nearer to your goal.
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If you want work well done, select a busy man – the other kind has no time.
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There is something that is much more scarce, something finer far, something rarer than ability. It is the ability to recognize ability.
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Lovers are fools, but Nature makes them so.
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Genius is the capacity of avoiding hard work.
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If you can’t answer a man’s arguments, all is not lost; you can still call him vile names.
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