Man is not what he thinks he is, but what he thinks, he is.
ELBERT HUBBARDThe reward of a good deed is in having done it.
More Elbert Hubbard Quotes
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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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The world is moving so fast these days that the man who says it can’t be done is generally interrupted by someone doing it.
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One machine can do the work of fifty ordinary men. No machine can do the work of one extraordinary man.
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Do not take life too seriously. You will never get out of it alive.
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Every man should have a college education in order to show him how little the thing is really worth.
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God will not look you over for medals degrees or diplomas, but for scars.
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I do not read a book; I hold a conversation with the author.
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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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Genius is the ability to act rightly without precedent – the power to do the right thing the first time.
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Everything comes too late for those who only wait.
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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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We will not be dictated to by men with less intelligence, energy, initiative and ambition than we ourselves possess.
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We are punished by our sins, not for them.
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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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A woman will doubt everything you say except it be compliments to herself.
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