We will not be dictated to by men with less intelligence, energy, initiative and ambition than we ourselves possess.
ELBERT HUBBARDA retentive memory may be a good thing, but the ability to forget is the true token of greatness.
More Elbert Hubbard Quotes
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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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An ounce of performance is worth more than a pound of preachment.
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Success consists in the climb.
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In order to have friends, you must first be one.
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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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A goal without a plan is a dream.
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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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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 recipe for perpetual ignorance is: Be satisfied with your opinions and content with your knowledge.
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Wise Man: One who sees the storm coming before the clouds appear.
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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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Men are only as great as they are kind.
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It is easy to get everything you want, provided you first learn to do without the things you cannot get.
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A man who marries a woman to educate her falls victim to the same fallacy as the woman who marries a man to reform him.
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People who are able to do their own thinking should not allow others to do it for them.
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Where parents do too much for their children, the children will not do much for themselves.
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The friend is the man who knows all about you, and still likes you.
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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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Man is not what he thinks he is, but what he thinks, he is.
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To make mistakes is human, but to profit from them is divine.
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Do your work with your whole heart, and you will succeed – there’s so little competition.
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As we grow better, we meet better people.
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Growth is often a painful process.
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Most people like hard work, particularly when they’re paying for it.
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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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Constant effort and frequent mistakes are the stepping stones to genius.
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