The object of teaching a child is to enable him to get along without his teacher.
ELBERT HUBBARDSuccess consists in the climb.
More Elbert Hubbard Quotes
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What others say of me matters little; what I myself say and do matters much.
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We work to become, not to acquire.
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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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I believe it is possible that I shall make other creeds, and change this one, or add to it, from time to time, as new light may come to me.
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Friendship, like credit, is highest when it is not used.
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All wages are based primarily on productive power. Anything else would be charity.
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The man who knows it can’t be done counts the risk, not the reward.
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Men are rich only as they give. He who gives great service gets great rewards.
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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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The valuable person in any business is the individual who can and will cooperate with others.
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A man is not paid for having a head and hands, but for using them.
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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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If it was woman who put man out of Paradise, it is still woman, and woman only, who can lead him back.
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As we grow better, we meet better people.
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Formal religion was organized for slaves: it offered them consolation which earth did not provide.
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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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If you can’t answer a man’s arguments, all is not lost; you can still call him vile names.
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Many people fail in life, not for lack of ability or brains or even courage but simply because they have never organized their energies around a goal.
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He who does not understand your silence will probably not understand your words.
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Impossible things are simply those which so far have never been done.
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The average woman sees only the weak points in a strong man, and the good points in a weak one.
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Success consists in the climb.
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Fences are made for those who cannot fly.
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Happiness is a habit—cultivate it.
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Most people like hard work, particularly when they’re paying for it.
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Down in their hearts, wise men know this truth: the only way to help yourself is to help others.
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