Some men can get results if kindly encouraged, but give me the kind that do things in spite of hell.
ELBERT HUBBARDGod will not look you over for medals degrees or diplomas, but for scars.
More Elbert Hubbard Quotes
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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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The worst thing about medicine is that one kind makes another necessary
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Lovers are fools, but Nature makes them so.
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Know what you want to do, hold the thought firmly, and do every day what should be done, and every sunset will see you that much nearer to your goal.
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No one ever gets far unless he accomplishes the impossible at least once a day.
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A goal without a plan is a dream.
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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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Thoroughness characterizes all successful men. Genius is the art of taking infinite pains. All great achievement has been characterized by extreme care, infinite painstaking, even to the minutest detail.
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The secret of success is this: there is no secret of success.
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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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In order to have friends, you must first be one.
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All wages are based primarily on productive power. Anything else would be charity.
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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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Do not take life too seriously. You will never get out of it alive.
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Meanness is more in half-doing than in omitting acts of generosity.
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Be pleasant until ten o’clock in the morning and the rest of the day will take care of itself.
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Most people like hard work, particularly when they’re paying for it.
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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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Positive anything is better than negative nothing.
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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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Formal religion was organized for slaves: it offered them consolation which earth did not provide.
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Lawyers are men whom we hire to protect us from lawyers.
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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.
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Responsibility is the price of freedom.
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We find what we expect to find, and we receive what we ask for.
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