Failure — The man who can tell others what to do and how to do it, but never does it himself.
ELBERT HUBBARDThe world is moving so fast these days that the man who says it can’t be done is generally interrupted by someone doing it.
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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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Business is a fight, a continual struggle, just as life is.
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Impossible things are simply those which so far have never been done.
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The man who knows it can’t be done counts the risk, not the reward.
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Reason: The arithmetic of the emotions.
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The friend is the man who knows all about you, and still likes you.
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The supernatural is the natural not yet understood.
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The reward of a good deed is in having done it.
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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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God will not look you over for medals degrees or diplomas, but for scars.
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People who are able to do their own thinking should not allow others to do it for them.
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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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If you can’t answer a man’s arguments, all is not lost; you can still call him vile names.
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I do not read a book; I hold a conversation with the author.
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True life lies in laughter, love and work.
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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 wish to live without hate, whim, jealousy, envy, and fear. I wish to be simple, honest, frank, natural . . to face any obstacle and meet every difficulty unabashed and unafraid.
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It is easy to get everything you want, provided you first learn to do without the things you cannot get.
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What people need and what they want may be very different.
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Politicians regard the public as a cow to be milked.
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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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Man is not what he thinks he is, but what he thinks, he is.
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As we grow better, we meet better people.
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The recipe for perpetual ignorance is: Be satisfied with your opinions and content with your knowledge.
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