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.
ELBERT HUBBARDDo your work with your whole heart, and you will succeed – there’s so little competition.
More Elbert Hubbard Quotes
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A woman will doubt everything you say except it be compliments to herself.
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Progress comes from the intelligent use of experience.
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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.
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Man’s greatest blunder has been in trying to make peace with the skies instead of making peace with his neighbors.
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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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If you want work well done, select a busy man – the other kind has no time.
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The highest reward that God gives us for good work is the ability to do better 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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The happiness of this life depends less on what befalls you than the way in which you take it.
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Do not take life too seriously. You will never get out of it alive.
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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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The best preparation for good work tomorrow is to do good work today.
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Lovers are fools, but Nature makes them so.
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Wise Man: One who sees the storm coming before the clouds appear.
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Meanness is more in half-doing than in omitting acts of generosity.
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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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The valuable person in any business is the individual who can and will cooperate with others.
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Constant effort and frequent mistakes are the stepping stones to genius.
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We work to become, not to acquire.
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I do not read a book; I hold a conversation with the author.
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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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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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The greatest mistake you can make in life is continually fearing that you’ll make one.
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I believe in the hands that work, in the brains that think, and in the hearts that love…I believe in sunshine, fresh air, friendship, calm sleep, beautiful thoughts.
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The worst thing about medicine is that one kind makes another necessary
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Genius is the capacity of avoiding hard work.
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