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 HUBBARDYou can lead a boy to college, but you cannot make him think.
More Elbert Hubbard Quotes
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Positive anything is better than negative nothing.
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You can lead a boy to college, but you cannot make him think.
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Impossible things are simply those which so far have never been done.
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Do your work with your whole heart, and you will succeed – there’s so little competition.
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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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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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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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What people need and what they want may be very different.
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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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A retentive memory may be a good thing, but the ability to forget is the true token of greatness.
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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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We will not be dictated to by men with less intelligence, energy, initiative and ambition than we ourselves possess.
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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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Faith is the effort to believe what your common sense tells you is not true.
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The friend is the man who knows all about you, and still likes you.
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