The object of teaching a child is to enable him to get along without his teacher.
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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Never explain – your friends do not need it and your enemies will not believe you anyway.
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Politicians regard the public as a cow to be milked.
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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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We work to become, not to acquire.
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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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Genius is the ability to act rightly without precedent – the power to do the right thing the first time.
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The valuable person in any business is the individual who can and will cooperate with others.
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Formal religion was organized for slaves: it offered them consolation which earth did not provide.
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Freedom cannot be bestowed – it must be achieved.
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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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Every man should have a college education in order to show him how little the thing is really worth.
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True life lies in laughter, love and work.
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Happiness is a habit—cultivate it.
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The average woman sees only the weak points in a strong man, and the good points in a weak one.
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Make two grins grow where there was only a grouch before.
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What people need and what they want may be very different.
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I believe the only way we can reach the Kingdom of Heaven is to have the Kingdom of Heaven in our hearts.
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The more one knows, the more one simplifies.
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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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We will not be dictated to by men with less intelligence, energy, initiative and ambition than we ourselves possess.
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The reward of a good deed is in having done it.
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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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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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To make mistakes is human, but to profit from them is divine.
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Business is a fight, a continual struggle, just as life is.
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We make our money out of our friends. Our enemies will not do business with us.
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