There is something that is much more scarce, something finer far, something rarer than ability. It is the ability to recognize ability.
ELBERT HUBBARDMan’s greatest blunder has been in trying to make peace with the skies instead of making peace with his neighbors.
More Elbert Hubbard Quotes
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What people need and what they want may be very different.
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Men are only as great as they are kind.
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Impossible things are simply those which so far have never been done.
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Love grows by giving. The love we give away is the only love we keep. The only way to retain love is to give it away.
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We are punished by our sins, not for them.
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Do your work with your whole heart, and you will succeed – there’s so little competition.
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We will not be dictated to by men with less intelligence, energy, initiative and ambition than we ourselves possess.
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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 highest reward that God gives us for good work is the ability to do better work.
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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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Most people like hard work, particularly when they’re paying for it.
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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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Do not take life too seriously. You will never get out of it alive.
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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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An ounce of performance is worth more than a pound of preachment.
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