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.
ELBERT HUBBARDIn order to have friends, you must first be one.
More Elbert Hubbard Quotes
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The more one knows, the more one simplifies.
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What others say of me matters little; what I myself say and do matters much.
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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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To make mistakes is human, but to profit from them is divine.
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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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Wise Man: One who sees the storm coming before the clouds appear.
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Men are rich only as they give. He who gives great service gets great rewards.
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You can lead a boy to college, but you cannot make him think.
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The valuable person in any business is the individual who can and will cooperate with others.
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The man who knows it can’t be done counts the risk, not the reward.
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Progress comes from the intelligent use of experience.
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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 man is not paid for having a head and hands, but for using them.
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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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Responsibility is the price of freedom.
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Business is a fight, a continual struggle, just as life is.
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Happiness is a habit—cultivate it.
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Friendship, like credit, is highest when it is not used.
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Genius is the capacity of avoiding hard work.
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If your religion does not change you, then you had better change your religion.
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Meanness is more in half-doing than in omitting acts of generosity.
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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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Some men can get results if kindly encouraged, but give me the kind that do things in spite of hell.
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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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We will not be dictated to by men with less intelligence, energy, initiative and ambition than we ourselves possess.
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Lawyers are men whom we hire to protect us from lawyers.
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