Make two grins grow where there was only a grouch before.
ELBERT HUBBARDThere is something that is much more scarce, something finer far, something rarer than ability. It is the ability to recognize ability.
More Elbert Hubbard Quotes
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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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Most people like hard work, particularly when they’re paying for it.
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Growth is often a painful process.
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Pray that success will not come any faster than you are able to endure it.
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If it was woman who put man out of Paradise, it is still woman, and woman only, who can lead him back.
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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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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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Lovers are fools, but Nature makes them so.
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Everything comes too late for those who only wait.
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Men are rich only as they give. He who gives great service gets great rewards.
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I do not read a book; I hold a conversation with the author.
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Meanness is more in half-doing than in omitting acts of generosity.
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Freedom cannot be bestowed – it must be achieved.
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Man is not what he thinks he is, but what he thinks, he is.
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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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All success consists in this: You are doing something for somebody – benefiting humanity – and the feeling of success comes from the consciousness of this.
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The recipe for perpetual ignorance is: Be satisfied with your opinions and content with your knowledge.
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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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As we grow better, we meet better people.
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Responsibility is the price of freedom.
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If you have health, you probably will be happy, and if you have health and happiness, you have all the wealth you need, even if it is not all you want.
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The love we give away is the only love we keep.
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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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We make our money out of our friends. Our enemies will not do business with us.
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Genius is the capacity of avoiding hard work.
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I believe in the hands that work, in the brains that think, and in the hearts that love…I believe in sunshine, fresh air, friendship, calm sleep, beautiful thoughts.
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