The highest reward that God gives us for good work is the ability to do better work.
ELBERT HUBBARDThe average woman sees only the weak points in a strong man, and the good points in a weak one.
More Elbert Hubbard Quotes
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To make mistakes is human, but to profit from them is divine.
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Men are only as great as they are kind.
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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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As we grow better, we meet better people.
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Pray that success will not come any faster than you are able to endure it.
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I do not read a book; I hold a conversation with the author.
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Constant effort and frequent mistakes are the stepping stones to genius.
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Lawyers are men whom we hire to protect us from lawyers.
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Reason: The arithmetic of the emotions.
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The recipe for perpetual ignorance is: Be satisfied with your opinions and content with your knowledge.
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Business is a fight, a continual struggle, just as life is.
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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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Folks who never do any more than they get paid for, never get paid for any more than they do
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Growth is often a painful process.
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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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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.
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Never explain – your friends do not need it and your enemies will not believe you anyway.
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Be pleasant until ten o’clock in the morning and the rest of the day will take care of itself.
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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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The man who knows it can’t be done counts the risk, not the reward.
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He who does not understand your silence will probably not understand your words.
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Impossible things are simply those which so far have never been done.
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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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Politicians regard the public as a cow to be milked.
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Freedom cannot be bestowed – it must be achieved.
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Men are rich only as they give. He who gives great service gets great rewards.
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