A man who marries a woman to educate her falls victim to the same fallacy as the woman who marries a man to reform him.
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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Friendship, like credit, is highest when it is not used.
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There is something that is much more scarce, something finer far, something rarer than ability. It is the ability to recognize ability.
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We make our money out of our friends. Our enemies will not do business with us.
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Failure — The man who can tell others what to do and how to do it, but never does it himself.
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The man who knows it can’t be done counts the risk, not the reward.
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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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What people need and what they want may be very different.
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If you have health, you probably will be happy, and if you have health and happiness, you have all the wealth you need, even if it is not all you want.
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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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Pray that success will not come any faster than you are able to endure it.
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It does not take much strength to do things, but it requires great strength to decide on what to do.
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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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Anyone who idolizes you is going to hate you when he discovers that you are fallible. He never forgives. He has deceived himself, and he blames you for it.
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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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Some men can get results if kindly encouraged, but give me the kind that do things in spite of hell.
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