All success consists in this: You are doing something for somebody – benefiting humanity – and the feeling of success comes from the consciousness of this.
ELBERT HUBBARDHappiness is a habit—cultivate it.
More Elbert Hubbard Quotes
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Genius is the capacity of avoiding hard work.
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Politicians regard the public as a cow to be milked.
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Impossible things are simply those which so far have never been done.
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Fences are made for those who cannot fly.
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What people need and what they want may be very different.
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A man who marries a woman to educate her falls victim to the same fallacy as the woman who marries a man to reform him.
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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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What we call God’s justice is only man’s idea of what he would do if he were God.
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Everything comes too late for those who only wait.
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Reason: The arithmetic of the emotions.
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I do not read a book; I hold a conversation with the author.
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Meanness is more in half-doing than in omitting acts of generosity.
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Growth is often a painful process.
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Freedom cannot be bestowed – it must be achieved.
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The greatest mistake you can make in life is continually fearing that you’ll make one.
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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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The best preparation for good work tomorrow is to do good work today.
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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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The highest reward that God gives us for good work is the ability to do better work.
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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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The supernatural is the natural not yet understood.
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A goal without a plan is a dream.
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If your religion does not change you, then you had better change your religion.
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The man who has no problems is out of the game.
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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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Every man is a damn fool for at least five minutes every day; wisdom consists in not exceeding the limit.
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