The reward of a good deed is in having done it.
ELBERT HUBBARD
ELBERT HUBBARD
More from Elbert Hubbard
The greatest mistake you can make in life is continually fearing that you’ll make one.
Elbert HubbardElbert Hubbard To avoid criticism, do nothing, say nothing and be nothing.
Elbert HubbardElbert Hubbard An ounce of performance is worth more than a pound of preachment.
Elbert HubbardElbert Hubbard Do not take life too seriously. You will never get out of it alive.
Elbert HubbardElbert Hubbard Business is a fight, a continual struggle, just as life is.
Elbert HubbardElbert Hubbard Pray that success will not come any faster than you are able to endure it.
Elbert HubbardElbert Hubbard 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.
Elbert HubbardElbert Hubbard Be pleasant until ten o’clock in the morning and the rest of the day will take care of itself.
Elbert HubbardElbert Hubbard If it was woman who put man out of Paradise, it is still woman, and woman only, who can lead him back.
Elbert HubbardElbert Hubbard The man who has no problems is out of the game.
Elbert HubbardElbert Hubbard I do not read a book; I hold a conversation with the author.
Elbert HubbardElbert Hubbard Failure — The man who can tell others what to do and how to do it, but never does it himself.
Elbert HubbardElbert Hubbard We work to become, not to acquire.
Elbert HubbardElbert Hubbard If you want work well done, select a busy man – the other kind has no time.
Elbert HubbardElbert Hubbard One machine can do the work of fifty ordinary men. No machine can do the work of one extraordinary man.
Elbert HubbardElbert Hubbard The supernatural is the natural not yet understood.
Elbert HubbardElbert Hubbard
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Juana GarciaJuana Garcia I would rather shoot my arrows than keep them in my bow, I would rather risk it all than risk nothing at all.
ShamaShama I wish I knew then all of the things I know now that I am enough.
TMCTMC I feel like I’m on fire, fighting for a moment on respite – I’m not placing bets.
M.K. StandbyM.K. Standby I found him in all the chaos, and that was when my world started making sense again.
MoomerMoomer The judgement that people cast on you for how you do or do not appear is nothing more than just a projection of their own wounds.
Taj AroraTaj Arora Be grateful for what you have now, even if it’s not everything you wanted.
Sonia SabnisSonia Sabnis It seems strange how we look in the same mirror, yet what stares back, is so painfully different.
Chris AllchinChris Allchin
More on action
I’m not a person who defends myself very often. I kind of let my actions speak for me.
Tom BradyTom Brady Do not let your deeds believe your words, lest when you speak in church someone may say to himself, “Why do you not practice what you preach?
St. JeromeSt. Jerome Talk that does not end in any kind of action is better suppressed altogether.
Thomas CarlyleThomas Carlyle Perhaps this is just punishment for those who have been heartless, to understand only when nothing can be undone.
Khaled HosseiniKhaled Hosseini Prep work done. Time for execution.
Rohit SharmaRohit Sharma Instead of speaking saintly words we must act them.
St. JeromeSt. Jerome Throughout history, it has been the inaction of those who could have acted; the indifference of those who should have known better; the silence of the voice of justice when it mattered most; that has made it possible for evil to triumph.
Haile SelassieHaile Selassie Our real journey in life is interior; It is a matter of growth, deepening, and of an ever greater surrender to the creative action of love and grace in our hearts. Never was it more necessary to respond to that action.
Thomas MertonThomas Merton