God will not look you over for medals degrees or diplomas, but for scars.
ELBERT HUBBARDFaith is the effort to believe what your common sense tells you is not true.
More Elbert Hubbard Quotes
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People who are able to do their own thinking should not allow others to do it for them.
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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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We work to become, not to acquire.
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A man is not paid for having a head and hands, but for using them.
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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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Every man should have a college education in order to show him how little the thing is really worth.
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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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A goal without a plan is a dream.
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The love we give away is the only love we keep.
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Man is not what he thinks he is, but what he thinks, he is.
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Faith is the effort to believe what your common sense tells you is not true.
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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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Politicians regard the public as a cow to be milked.
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Lawyers are men whom we hire to protect us from lawyers.
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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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Where parents do too much for their children, the children will not do much for themselves.
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It is easy to get everything you want, provided you first learn to do without the things you cannot get.
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Some men can get results if kindly encouraged, but give me the kind that do things in spite of hell.
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Fences are made for those who cannot fly.
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The greatest mistake a person can make is to be afraid of making one.
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Money never made a fool of anybody; it only shows them up.
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The more one knows, the more one simplifies.
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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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If you can’t answer a man’s arguments, all is not lost; you can still call him vile names.
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Positive anything is better than negative nothing.
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Reason: The arithmetic of the emotions.
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