Self-discipline is the ability to make yourself do what you should do, when you should do it, whether you feel like it or not.
ELBERT HUBBARDAll wages are based primarily on productive power. Anything else would be charity.
More Elbert Hubbard Quotes
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Make two grins grow where there was only a grouch before.
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The love we give away is the only love we keep.
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Formal religion was organized for slaves: it offered them consolation which earth did not provide.
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What we call God’s justice is only man’s idea of what he would do if he were God.
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Happiness is a habit—cultivate it.
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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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Faith is the effort to believe what your common sense tells you is not true.
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The reward of a good deed is in having done it.
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Impossible things are simply those which so far have never been done.
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The friend is the man who knows all about you, and still likes you.
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Freedom cannot be bestowed – it must be achieved.
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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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The object of teaching a child is to enable him to get along without his teacher.
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You can lead a boy to college, but you cannot make him think.
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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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