Man is not what he thinks he is, but what he thinks, he is.
ELBERT HUBBARDNever explain – your friends do not need it and your enemies will not believe you anyway.
More Elbert Hubbard Quotes
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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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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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The worst thing about medicine is that one kind makes another necessary
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To make mistakes is human, but to profit from them is divine.
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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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Reason: The arithmetic of the emotions.
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We work to become, not to acquire.
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If you want work well done, select a busy man – the other kind has no time.
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As we grow better, we meet better people.
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All wages are based primarily on productive power. Anything else would be charity.
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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.
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Growth is often a painful process.
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If you have health, you probably will be happy, and if you have health and happiness, you have all the wealth you need, even if it is not all you want.
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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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Do your work with your whole heart, and you will succeed – there’s so little competition.
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