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Progress comes from the intelligent use of experience.

Elbert Hubbard

An ounce of performance is worth more than a pound of preachment.
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Performance Preach Worth
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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Ability Rare Recognition Wisdom
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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Goal Hold Inspirational See Thinking Yourself
People who are able to do their own thinking should not allow others to do it for them.
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Advice People Thinking
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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Academics Act Book Education Memories Reading
A failure is a man who has blundered, but is not able to cash in the experience.
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Experience Failure Man
Make two grins grow where there was only a grouch before.
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Growth Improvement
If you can’t answer a man’s arguments, all is not lost; you can still call him vile names.
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Answer Himself Lost Man Name
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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Beautiful Believe Hands Myself Sleep Thinking
The fool is not the man who merely does foolish things. The fool is the man who does not know enough to cash in on his foolishness.
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Enough Fools Himself Knowledge Man
Genius is the ability to act rightly without precedent – the power to do the right thing the first time.
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Act Genius Power Right Time
Folks who never do any more than they get paid for, never get paid for any more than they do
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Friendship Pay Work
Positive anything is better than negative nothing.
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Better Negative Positive
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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Business Education Fall Himself Man Marriage Woman
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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Greatness Himself Man Peace Sky Try
Happiness is a habit—cultivate it.
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Cultivation Happiness One Liner
The greatest mistake you can make in life is continually fearing that you’ll make one.
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Fear Greatness Life Mistake Oneself
As we grow better, we meet better people.
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Better Grow People
The greatest mistake a person can make is to be afraid of making one.
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Afraid Greatness Mistake Oneself
Self-discipline is the ability to make yourself do what you should do, when you should do it, whether you feel like it or not.
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Ability Discipline Feeling Yourself
The average woman sees only the weak points in a strong man, and the good points in a weak one.
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Average Man Oneself Strong Weakness Woman
All wages are based primarily on productive power. Anything else would be charity.
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Charity Power Production Salary
Lawyers are men whom we hire to protect us from lawyers.
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Lawyer Man Protection
The valuable person in any business is the individual who can and will cooperate with others.
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Business Cooperation Person Value
Everything comes too late for those who only wait.
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Late Patience Speed Wait
Of all the mental and physical polluters of life, nothing exercises such a poisonous effect as fear.
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Exercise Fear Life Mental Poison Pollution
A goal without a plan is a dream.
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Dreams Goal One Liner Planning

Progress comes from the intelligent use of experience.

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