Never explain – your friends do not need it and your enemies will not believe you anyway.
ELBERT HUBBARDWhat people need and what they want may be very different.
More Elbert Hubbard Quotes
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You can lead a boy to college, but you cannot make him think.
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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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To make mistakes is human, but to profit from them is divine.
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Constant effort and frequent mistakes are the stepping stones to genius.
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All wages are based primarily on productive power. Anything else would be charity.
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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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Many people fail in life, not for lack of ability or brains or even courage but simply because they have never organized their energies around a goal.
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Make two grins grow where there was only a grouch before.
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The greatest mistake you can make in life is continually fearing that you’ll make one.
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Wise Man: One who sees the storm coming before the clouds appear.
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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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Thoroughness characterizes all successful men. Genius is the art of taking infinite pains. All great achievement has been characterized by extreme care, infinite painstaking, even to the minutest detail.
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Progress comes from the intelligent use of experience.
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Responsibility is the price of freedom.
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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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