A woman will doubt everything you say except it be compliments to herself.
ELBERT HUBBARDAll wages are based primarily on productive power. Anything else would be charity.
More Elbert Hubbard Quotes
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I wish to live without hate, whim, jealousy, envy, and fear. I wish to be simple, honest, frank, natural . . to face any obstacle and meet every difficulty unabashed and unafraid.
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The object of teaching a child is to enable him to get along without his teacher.
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Make two grins grow where there was only a grouch before.
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The world is moving so fast these days that the man who says it can’t be done is generally interrupted by someone doing it.
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Progress comes from the intelligent use of experience.
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Thoroughness characterizes all successful men. Genius is the art of taking infinite pains. All great achievement has been characterized by extreme care, infinite painstaking, even to the minutest detail.
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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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Positive anything is better than negative nothing.
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Everything comes too late for those who only wait.
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One can endure sorrow alone, but it takes two to be glad.
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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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Reason: The arithmetic of the emotions.
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Never explain – your friends do not need it and your enemies will not believe you anyway.
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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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Man’s greatest blunder has been in trying to make peace with the skies instead of making peace with his neighbors.
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He who does not understand your silence will probably not understand your words.
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Responsibility is the price of freedom.
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We find what we expect to find, and we receive what we ask for.
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Freedom cannot be bestowed – it must be achieved.
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Formal religion was organized for slaves: it offered them consolation which earth did not provide.
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As we grow better, we meet better people.
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Do not take life too seriously. You will never get out of it alive.
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What we call God’s justice is only man’s idea of what he would do if he were God.
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Money never made a fool of anybody; it only shows them up.
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The secret of success is this: there is no secret of success.
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The greatest mistake you can make in life is continually fearing that you’ll make one.
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