Man’s greatest blunder has been in trying to make peace with the skies instead of making peace with his neighbors.
ELBERT HUBBARDWhat people need and what they want may be very different.
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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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What others say of me matters little; what I myself say and do matters much.
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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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I wish to live without hate, whim, jealousy, envy, and fear. I wish to be simple, honest, frank, natural . . to face any obstacle and meet every difficulty unabashed and unafraid.
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A man is not paid for having a head and hands, but for using them.
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The man who knows it can’t be done counts the risk, not the reward.
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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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It does not take much strength to do things, but it requires great strength to decide on what to do.
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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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A failure is a man who has blundered, but is not able to cash in the experience.
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Do not take life too seriously. You will never get out of it alive.
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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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Make two grins grow where there was only a grouch before.
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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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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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You can lead a boy to college, but you cannot make him think.
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We are punished by our sins, not for them.
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The man who has no problems is out of the game.
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Success consists in the climb.
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What people need and what they want may be very different.
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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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Do your work with your whole heart, and you will succeed – there’s so little competition.
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Progress comes from the intelligent use of experience.
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Happiness is a habit—cultivate it.
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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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