An ounce of performance is worth more than a pound of preachment.
ELBERT HUBBARDEvery man should have a college education in order to show him how little the thing is really worth.
More Elbert Hubbard Quotes
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Genius is the capacity of avoiding hard work.
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Impossible things are simply those which so far have never been done.
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The valuable person in any business is the individual who can and will cooperate with others.
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No one ever gets far unless he accomplishes the impossible at least once a day.
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Of all the mental and physical polluters of life, nothing exercises such a poisonous effect as fear.
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Man is not what he thinks he is, but what he thinks, he is.
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What others say of me matters little; what I myself say and do matters much.
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What we call God’s justice is only man’s idea of what he would do if he were God.
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Faith is the effort to believe what your common sense tells you is not true.
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Freedom cannot be bestowed – it must be achieved.
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True life lies in laughter, love and work.
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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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Do not take life too seriously. You will never get out of it alive.
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One can endure sorrow alone, but it takes two to be glad.
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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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Business is a fight, a continual struggle, just as life is.
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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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Genius is the ability to act rightly without precedent – the power to do the right thing the first time.
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Do your work with your whole heart, and you will succeed – there’s so little competition.
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To make mistakes is human, but to profit from them is divine.
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Politicians regard the public as a cow to be milked.
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Pray that success will not come any faster than you are able to endure it.
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Art is not a thing; it is a way.
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All success consists in this: You are doing something for somebody – benefiting humanity – and the feeling of success comes from the consciousness of this.
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As we grow better, we meet better people.
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