The happiness of this life depends less on what befalls you than the way in which you take it.
ELBERT HUBBARDConstant effort and frequent mistakes are the stepping stones to genius.
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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The greatest mistake you can make in life is continually fearing that you’ll make one.
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Happiness is a habit—cultivate it.
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Friendship, like credit, is highest when it is not used.
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Every man is a damn fool for at least five minutes every day; wisdom consists in not exceeding the limit.
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Man is not what he thinks he is, but what he thinks, he is.
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All wages are based primarily on productive power. Anything else would be charity.
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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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If your religion does not change you, then you had better change your religion.
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Pray that success will not come any faster than you are able to endure it.
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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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Do not take life too seriously. You will never get out of it alive.
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The highest reward that God gives us for good work is the ability to do better work.
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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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Lawyers are men whom we hire to protect us from lawyers.
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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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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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We find what we expect to find, and we receive what we ask for.
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In order to have friends, you must first be one.
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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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Meanness is more in half-doing than in omitting acts of generosity.
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Fences are made for those who cannot fly.
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One can endure sorrow alone, but it takes two to be glad.
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Formal religion was organized for slaves: it offered them consolation which earth did not provide.
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Progress comes from the intelligent use of experience.
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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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