Genius is the ability to act rightly without precedent – the power to do the right thing the first time.
ELBERT HUBBARDWise Man: One who sees the storm coming before the clouds appear.
More Elbert Hubbard Quotes
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The happiness of this life depends less on what befalls you than the way in which you take 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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The recipe for perpetual ignorance is: Be satisfied with your opinions and content with your knowledge.
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Of all the mental and physical polluters of life, nothing exercises such a poisonous effect as fear.
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Man is not what he thinks he is, but what he thinks, he is.
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What others say of me matters little; what I myself say and do matters much.
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A retentive memory may be a good thing, but the ability to forget is the true token of greatness.
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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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We make our money out of our friends. Our enemies will not do business with us.
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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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Art is not a thing; it is a way.
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No one ever gets far unless he accomplishes the impossible at least once a day.
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The greatest mistake a person can make is to be afraid of making one.
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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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Faith is the effort to believe what your common sense tells you is not true.
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