The greatest mistake you can make in life is continually fearing that you’ll make one.
ELBERT HUBBARDOf all the mental and physical polluters of life, nothing exercises such a poisonous effect as fear.
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To avoid criticism, do nothing, say nothing and be nothing.
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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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An ounce of performance is worth more than a pound of preachment.
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I do not read a book; I hold a conversation with the author.
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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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A man is not paid for having a head and hands, but for using them.
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Every man is a damn fool for at least five minutes every day; wisdom consists in not exceeding the limit.
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Constant effort and frequent mistakes are the stepping stones to genius.
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Anyone 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.
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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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We will not be dictated to by men with less intelligence, energy, initiative and ambition than we ourselves possess.
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The love we give away is the only love we keep.
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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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Reason: The arithmetic of the emotions.
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The secret of success is this: there is no secret of success.
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Impossible things are simply those which so far have never been done.
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Genius is the capacity of avoiding hard work.
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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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One can endure sorrow alone, but it takes two to be glad.
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Business is a fight, a continual struggle, just as life is.
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He who does not understand your silence will probably not understand your words.
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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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I believe the only way we can reach the Kingdom of Heaven is to have the Kingdom of Heaven in our hearts.
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Politicians regard the public as a cow to be milked.
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Art is not a thing; it is a way.
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God will not look you over for medals degrees or diplomas, but for scars.
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