We will not be dictated to by men with less intelligence, energy, initiative and ambition than we ourselves possess.
ELBERT HUBBARDBe pleasant until ten o’clock in the morning and the rest of the day will take care of itself.
More Elbert Hubbard Quotes
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Man is not what he thinks he is, but what he thinks, he is.
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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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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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Impossible things are simply those which so far have never been done.
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Meanness is more in half-doing than in omitting acts of generosity.
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Make two grins grow where there was only a grouch before.
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Friendship, like credit, is highest when it is not used.
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The love we give away is the only love we keep.
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We work to become, not to acquire.
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All wages are based primarily on productive power. Anything else would be charity.
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In order to have friends, you must first be one.
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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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The happiness of this life depends less on what befalls you than the way in which you take it.
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If you can’t answer a man’s arguments, all is not lost; you can still call him vile names.
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Faith is the effort to believe what your common sense tells you is not true.
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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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The reward of a good deed is in having done it.
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I believe the only way we can reach the Kingdom of Heaven is to have the Kingdom of Heaven in our hearts.
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Happiness is a habit—cultivate it.
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One can endure sorrow alone, but it takes two to be glad.
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The man who has no problems is out of the game.
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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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We find what we expect to find, and we receive what we ask for.
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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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The worst thing about medicine is that one kind makes another necessary
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Down in their hearts, wise men know this truth: the only way to help yourself is to help others.
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