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.
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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The object of teaching a child is to enable him to get along without his teacher.
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No one ever gets far unless he accomplishes the impossible at least once a day.
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Lawyers are men whom we hire to protect us from lawyers.
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As we grow better, we meet better people.
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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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It is easy to get everything you want, provided you first learn to do without the things you cannot get.
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I believe the only way we can reach the Kingdom of Heaven is to have the Kingdom of Heaven in our hearts.
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The reward of a good deed is in having done it.
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The recipe for perpetual ignorance is: Be satisfied with your opinions and content with your knowledge.
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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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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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People who are able to do their own thinking should not allow others to do it for them.
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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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Politicians regard the public as a cow to be milked.
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A little more persistence, a little more effort, and what seemed hopeless failure may turn to glorious success.
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We find what we expect to find, and we receive what we ask for.
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Never explain – your friends do not need it and your enemies will not believe you anyway.
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Some men can get results if kindly encouraged, but give me the kind that do things in spite of hell.
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Responsibility is the price of freedom.
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Meanness is more in half-doing than in omitting acts of generosity.
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The best preparation for good work tomorrow is to do good work today.
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Failure — The man who can tell others what to do and how to do it, but never does it himself.
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Faith is the effort to believe what your common sense tells you is not true.
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Money never made a fool of anybody; it only shows them up.
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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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Progress comes from the intelligent use of experience.
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