There is something that is much more scarce, something finer far, something rarer than ability. It is the ability to recognize ability.
ELBERT HUBBARDThe reward of a good deed is in having done it.
More Elbert Hubbard Quotes
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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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Man is not what he thinks he is, but what he thinks, he is.
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Some men can get results if kindly encouraged, but give me the kind that do things in spite of hell.
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Lawyers are men whom we hire to protect us from lawyers.
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A man is not paid for having a head and hands, but for using them.
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Genius is the capacity of avoiding hard work.
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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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Of all the mental and physical polluters of life, nothing exercises such a poisonous effect as fear.
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Positive anything is better than negative nothing.
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I believe it is possible that I shall make other creeds, and change this one, or add to it, from time to time, as new light may come to me.
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If you want work well done, select a busy man – the other kind has no time.
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The man who knows it can’t be done counts the risk, not the reward.
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We work to become, not to acquire.
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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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Most people like hard work, particularly when they’re paying for it.
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All wages are based primarily on productive power. Anything else would be charity.
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The greatest mistake you can make in life is continually fearing that you’ll make one.
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Business is a fight, a continual struggle, just as life is.
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As we grow better, we meet better people.
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Success consists in the climb.
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Growth is often a painful process.
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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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Be pleasant until ten o’clock in the morning and the rest of the day will take care of itself.
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Men are rich only as they give. He who gives great service gets great rewards.
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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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