You can lead a boy to college, but you cannot make him think.
ELBERT HUBBARDGenius is the ability to act rightly without precedent – the power to do the right thing the first time.
More Elbert Hubbard Quotes
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If you want work well done, select a busy man – the other kind has no time.
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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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Progress comes from the intelligent use of experience.
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Fences are made for those who cannot fly.
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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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He who does not understand your silence will probably not understand your words.
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Do your work with your whole heart, and you will succeed – there’s so little competition.
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The reward of a good deed is in having done it.
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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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All wages are based primarily on productive power. Anything else would be charity.
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Do not take life too seriously. You will never get out of it alive.
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I do not read a book; I hold a conversation with the author.
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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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We are punished by our sins, not for them.
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