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You can lead a boy to college, but you cannot make him think.

Elbert Hubbard

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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Ability Courage Energy Failure Goal Organization People
Positive anything is better than negative nothing.
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Better Negative Positive
You can lead a boy to college, but you cannot make him think.
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College Himself Leadership Thinking
Impossible things are simply those which so far have never been done.
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Impossible Potential Simplicity
Do your work with your whole heart, and you will succeed – there’s so little competition.
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Competition Heart Success Work Yourself
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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Conclusion Ignorance Personal Right Thinking Yourself
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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Academics Act Book Education Memories Reading
I believe it is possible that I shall make other creeds, and change this one, or add to it, from time to time, as new light may come to me.
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Believe Change Light Myself Possible Time
What people need and what they want may be very different.
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Different Need People
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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Afraid Difficult Hate Jealous Live Myself Obstacle
A retentive memory may be a good thing, but the ability to forget is the true token of greatness.
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Ability Forget Goodness Greatness Memories
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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Enough Fools Himself Knowledge Man
We will not be dictated to by men with less intelligence, energy, initiative and ambition than we ourselves possess.
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Ambition Intelligence Leadership Man Ourselves Possession
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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Generosity Growth Love Way Wisdom
Faith is the effort to believe what your common sense tells you is not true.
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Believe Effort Faith True Yourself
The friend is the man who knows all about you, and still likes you.
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Friendship Man Secret Togetherness Yourself

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