Never explain – your friends do not need it and your enemies will not believe you anyway.
ELBERT HUBBARDGrowth is often a painful process.
More Elbert Hubbard Quotes
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We are punished by our sins, not for them.
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A man is not paid for having a head and hands, but for using them.
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All wages are based primarily on productive power. Anything else would be charity.
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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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The secret of success is this: there is no secret of success.
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The friend is the man who knows all about you, and still likes you.
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Make two grins grow where there was only a grouch before.
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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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Be pleasant until ten o’clock in the morning and the rest of the day will take care of itself.
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Man is not what he thinks he is, but what he thinks, he is.
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Fences are made for those who cannot fly.
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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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Where parents do too much for their children, the children will not do much for themselves.
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The greatest mistake a person can make is to be afraid of making one.
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We work to become, not to acquire.
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Lovers are fools, but Nature makes them so.
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A man who marries a woman to educate her falls victim to the same fallacy as the woman who marries a man to reform him.
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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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Genius is the capacity of avoiding hard work.
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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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Politicians regard the public as a cow to be milked.
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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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Faith is the effort to believe what your common sense tells you is not true.
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Impossible things are simply those which so far have never been done.
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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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