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.
ELBERT HUBBARDAnyone 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.
More Elbert Hubbard Quotes
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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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The object of teaching a child is to enable him to get along without his teacher.
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Happiness is a habit—cultivate it.
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If you can’t answer a man’s arguments, all is not lost; you can still call him vile names.
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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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Man is not what he thinks he is, but what he thinks, he is.
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Success consists in the climb.
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He who does not understand your silence will probably not understand your words.
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All wages are based primarily on productive power. Anything else would be charity.
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The friend is the man who knows all about you, and still likes you.
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Pray that success will not come any faster than you are able to endure it.
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One machine can do the work of fifty ordinary men. No machine can do the work of one extraordinary man.
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We make our money out of our friends. Our enemies will not do business with us.
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Everything comes too late for those who only wait.
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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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