Most people like hard work, particularly when they’re paying for it.
ELBERT HUBBARDSome men can get results if kindly encouraged, but give me the kind that do things in spite of hell.
More Elbert Hubbard Quotes
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The greatest mistake you can make in life is continually fearing that you’ll make one.
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No one ever gets far unless he accomplishes the impossible at least once a day.
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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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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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Every man is a damn fool for at least five minutes every day; wisdom consists in not exceeding the limit.
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Lovers are fools, but Nature makes them so.
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You can lead a boy to college, but you cannot make him think.
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One machine can do the work of fifty ordinary men. No machine can do the work of one extraordinary man.
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Politicians regard the public as a cow to be milked.
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Formal religion was organized for slaves: it offered them consolation which earth did not provide.
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Business is a fight, a continual struggle, just as life is.
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Everything comes too late for those who only wait.
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All wages are based primarily on productive power. Anything else would be charity.
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Do not take life too seriously. You will never get out of it alive.
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What others say of me matters little; what I myself say and do matters much.
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