I do not read a book; I hold a conversation with the author.
ELBERT HUBBARDTo make mistakes is human, but to profit from them is divine.
More Elbert Hubbard Quotes
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Thoroughness characterizes all successful men. Genius is the art of taking infinite pains. All great achievement has been characterized by extreme care, infinite painstaking, even to the minutest detail.
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He who does not understand your silence will probably not understand your words.
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Constant effort and frequent mistakes are the stepping stones to genius.
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An ounce of performance is worth more than a pound of preachment.
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Reason: The arithmetic of the emotions.
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Freedom cannot be bestowed – it must be achieved.
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The friend is the man who knows all about you, and still likes you.
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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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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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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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We find what we expect to find, and we receive what we ask for.
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A man is not paid for having a head and hands, but for using them.
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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 man who has no problems is out of the game.
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