You can lead a boy to college, but you cannot make him think.
ELBERT HUBBARDMany 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.
More Elbert Hubbard Quotes
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To make mistakes is human, but to profit from them is divine.
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If your religion does not change you, then you had better change your religion.
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Politicians regard the public as a cow to be milked.
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Formal religion was organized for slaves: it offered them consolation which earth did not provide.
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Responsibility is the price of freedom.
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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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Genius is the ability to act rightly without precedent – the power to do the right thing the first time.
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I wish to live without hate, whim, jealousy, envy, and fear. I wish to be simple, honest, frank, natural . . to face any obstacle and meet every difficulty unabashed and unafraid.
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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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What others say of me matters little; what I myself say and do matters much.
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The friend is the man who knows all about you, and still likes you.
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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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The recipe for perpetual ignorance is: Be satisfied with your opinions and content with your knowledge.
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The average woman sees only the weak points in a strong man, and the good points in a weak one.
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The man who has no problems is out of the game.
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