What others say of me matters little; what I myself say and do matters much.
ELBERT HUBBARDProgress comes from the intelligent use of experience.
More Elbert Hubbard Quotes
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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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We make our money out of our friends. Our enemies will not do business with us.
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Happiness is a habit—cultivate 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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Pray that success will not come any faster than you are able to endure it.
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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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Growth is often a painful process.
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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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The supernatural is the natural not yet understood.
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Never explain – your friends do not need it and your enemies will not believe you anyway.
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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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You can lead a boy to college, but you cannot make him think.
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Genius is the ability to act rightly without precedent – the power to do the right thing the first time.
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Folks who never do any more than they get paid for, never get paid for any more than they do
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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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