We work to become, not to acquire.
ELBERT HUBBARDIt is easy to get everything you want, provided you first learn to do without the things you cannot get.
More Elbert Hubbard Quotes
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Self-discipline is the ability to make yourself do what you should do, when you should do it, whether you feel like it or not.
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Responsibility is the price of freedom.
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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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An ounce of performance is worth more than a pound of preachment.
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The friend is the man who knows all about you, and still likes you.
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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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It does not take much strength to do things, but it requires great strength to decide on what to do.
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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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Man is not what he thinks he is, but what he thinks, he is.
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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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The best preparation for good work tomorrow is to do good work today.
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One can endure sorrow alone, but it takes two to be glad.
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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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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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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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