It does not take much strength to do things, but it requires great strength to decide on what to do.
ELBERT HUBBARDThoroughness 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.
More Elbert Hubbard Quotes
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Success consists in the climb.
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Where parents do too much for their children, the children will not do much for themselves.
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If you want work well done, select a busy man – the other kind has no time.
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A failure is a man who has blundered, but is not able to cash in the experience.
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Make two grins grow where there was only a grouch before.
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Never explain – your friends do not need it and your enemies will not believe you anyway.
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We are punished by our sins, not for them.
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It is easy to get everything you want, provided you first learn to do without the things you cannot get.
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The worst thing about medicine is that one kind makes another necessary
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Reason: The arithmetic of the emotions.
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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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There is something that is much more scarce, something finer far, something rarer than ability. It is the ability to recognize ability.
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The friend is the man who knows all about you, and still likes you.
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A woman will doubt everything you say except it be compliments to herself.
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A goal without a plan is a dream.
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A little more persistence, a little more effort, and what seemed hopeless failure may turn to glorious success.
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The greatest mistake you can make in life is continually fearing that you’ll make one.
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We find what we expect to find, and we receive what we ask for.
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True life lies in laughter, love and work.
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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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Constant effort and frequent mistakes are the stepping stones to genius.
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Be yourself and think for yourself, and while your conclusions may not be infallible they will be nearer right than the inclusions forced upon you by those who have a personal interest in keeping you in ignorance.
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If your religion does not change you, then you had better change your religion.
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God will not look you over for medals degrees or diplomas, but for scars.
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Do not take life too seriously. You will never get out of it alive.
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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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