It does not take much strength to do things, but it requires great strength to decide on what to do.
ELBERT HUBBARDIf your religion does not change you, then you had better change your religion.
More Elbert Hubbard Quotes
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He who does not understand your silence will probably not understand your words.
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Everything comes too late for those who only wait.
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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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We work to become, not to acquire.
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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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Every man should have a college education in order to show him how little the thing is really worth.
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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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It is easy to get everything you want, provided you first learn to do without the things you cannot get.
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Faith is the effort to believe what your common sense tells you is not true.
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An ounce of performance is worth more than a pound of preachment.
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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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Of all the mental and physical polluters of life, nothing exercises such a poisonous effect as fear.
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Constant effort and frequent mistakes are the stepping stones to genius.
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Genius is the capacity of avoiding hard work.
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Wise Man: One who sees the storm coming before the clouds appear.
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The man who knows it can’t be done counts the risk, not the reward.
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A retentive memory may be a good thing, but the ability to forget is the true token of greatness.
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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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Many people fail in life, not for lack of ability or brains or even courage but simply because they have never organized their energies around a goal.
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All wages are based primarily on productive power. Anything else would be charity.
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Love grows by giving. The love we give away is the only love we keep. The only way to retain love is to give it away.
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As we grow better, we meet better people.
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The secret of success is this: there is no secret of success.
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Never explain – your friends do not need it and your enemies will not believe you anyway.
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Do your work with your whole heart, and you will succeed – there’s so little competition.
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