The object of teaching a child is to enable him to get along without his teacher.
ELBERT HUBBARDFailure — The man who can tell others what to do and how to do it, but never does it himself.
More Elbert Hubbard Quotes
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Money never made a fool of anybody; it only shows them up.
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A goal without a plan is a dream.
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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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Where parents do too much for their children, the children will not do much for themselves.
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The supernatural is the natural not yet understood.
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Freedom cannot be bestowed – it must be achieved.
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The reward of a good deed is in having done it.
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Anyone who idolizes you is going to hate you when he discovers that you are fallible. He never forgives. He has deceived himself, and he blames you for it.
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Friendship, like credit, is highest when it is not used.
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The fool is not the man who merely does foolish things. The fool is the man who does not know enough to cash in on his foolishness.
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Genius is the ability to act rightly without precedent – the power to do the right thing the first time.
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Every man should have a college education in order to show him how little the thing is really worth.
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Never explain – your friends do not need it and your enemies will not believe you anyway.
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The man who has no problems is out of the game.
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The man who knows it can’t be done counts the risk, not the reward.
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Be pleasant until ten o’clock in the morning and the rest of the day will take care of itself.
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Business is a fight, a continual struggle, just as life is.
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What others say of me matters little; what I myself say and do matters much.
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The more one knows, the more one simplifies.
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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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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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A retentive memory may be a good thing, but the ability to forget is the true token of greatness.
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You can lead a boy to college, but you cannot make him think.
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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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Everything comes too late for those who only wait.
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He who does not understand your silence will probably not understand your words.
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