A man is not paid for having a head and hands, but for using them.
ELBERT HUBBARDWe work to become, not to acquire.
More Elbert Hubbard Quotes
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Progress comes from the intelligent use of experience.
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Everything comes too late for those who only wait.
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Make two grins grow where there was only a grouch before.
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We work to become, not to acquire.
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If you want work well done, select a busy man – the other kind has no time.
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The man who has no problems is out of the game.
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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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What others say of me matters little; what I myself say and do matters much.
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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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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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If your religion does not change you, then you had better change your religion.
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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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What we call God’s justice is only man’s idea of what he would do if he were God.
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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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Politicians regard the public as a cow to be milked.
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The valuable person in any business is the individual who can and will cooperate with others.
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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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It does not take much strength to do things, but it requires great strength to decide on what to do.
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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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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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The supernatural is the natural not yet understood.
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Do your work with your whole heart, and you will succeed – there’s so little competition.
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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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All wages are based primarily on productive power. Anything else would be charity.
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Man is not what he thinks he is, but what he thinks, he is.
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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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