Happiness is a habit—cultivate it.
ELBERT HUBBARDIf you want work well done, select a busy man – the other kind has no time.
More Elbert Hubbard Quotes
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It does not take much strength to do things, but it requires great strength to decide on what to do.
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A failure is a man who has blundered, but is not able to cash in the experience.
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God will not look you over for medals degrees or diplomas, but for scars.
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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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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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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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If you want work well done, select a busy man – the other kind has no time.
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Freedom cannot be bestowed – it must be achieved.
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Never explain – your friends do not need it and your enemies will not believe you anyway.
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The reward of a good deed is in having done it.
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Men are rich only as they give. He who gives great service gets great rewards.
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Constant effort and frequent mistakes are the stepping stones to genius.
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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 valuable person in any business is the individual who can and will cooperate with others.
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Business is a fight, a continual struggle, just as life is.
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We will not be dictated to by men with less intelligence, energy, initiative and ambition than we ourselves possess.
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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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Success consists in the climb.
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You can lead a boy to college, but you cannot make him think.
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The more one knows, the more one simplifies.
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I do not read a book; I hold a conversation with the author.
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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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Formal religion was organized for slaves: it offered them consolation which earth did not provide.
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Friendship, like credit, is highest when it is not used.
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To make mistakes is human, but to profit from them is divine.
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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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