I do not read a book; I hold a conversation with the author.

Elbert Hubbard

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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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Ability Courage Energy Failure Goal Organization People
Failure — The man who can tell others what to do and how to do it, but never does it himself.
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Advice Failure Himself Man
Pray that success will not come any faster than you are able to endure it.
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Endurance Fast Prayer Success Yourself
The greatest mistake you can make in life is continually fearing that you’ll make one.
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Fear Greatness Life Mistake Oneself
The object of teaching a child is to enable him to get along without his teacher.
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Alone Children Education Object Teaching
An ounce of performance is worth more than a pound of preachment.
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Performance Preach Worth
A man is not paid for having a head and hands, but for using them.
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Hands Head Inspirational Man Pay Potential
The fool is not the man who merely does foolish things. The fool is the man who does not know enough to cash in on his foolishness.
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Enough Fools Himself Knowledge Man
Business is a fight, a continual struggle, just as life is.
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Business Fight Life Struggle
A failure is a man who has blundered, but is not able to cash in the experience.
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Experience Failure Man
Happiness is a habit—cultivate it.
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Cultivation Happiness One Liner
If your religion does not change you, then you had better change your religion.
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Better Change Religion Yourself
The man who has no problems is out of the game.
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Game Man Problem
The valuable person in any business is the individual who can and will cooperate with others.
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Business Cooperation Person Value
Never explain – your friends do not need it and your enemies will not believe you anyway.
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Believe Enemy Explanation Friendship Need Yourself
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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Ability Discipline Feeling Yourself
We work to become, not to acquire.
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Achievement Difference One Liner Work
Every man is a damn fool for at least five minutes every day; wisdom consists in not exceeding the limit.
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Fools Limitation Man Wisdom
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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Goal Hold Inspirational See Thinking Yourself
Everything comes too late for those who only wait.
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Late Patience Speed Wait
Of all the mental and physical polluters of life, nothing exercises such a poisonous effect as fear.
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Exercise Fear Life Mental Poison Pollution
Some men can get results if kindly encouraged, but give me the kind that do things in spite of hell.
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Encouragement Hell Kind Man Result
The happiness of this life depends less on what befalls you than the way in which you take it.
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Happiness Life Yourself
In order to have friends, you must first be one.
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Friendship Oneself Order
Do not take life too seriously. You will never get out of it alive.
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Alive Death Inspirational Life Serious Yourself
We are punished by our sins, not for them.
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One Liner Perspective Punishment Sin
Reason: The arithmetic of the emotions.
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Arithmetic Emotion Reason

I do not read a book; I hold a conversation with the author.

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