The man who knows it can’t be done counts the risk, not the reward.
ELBERT HUBBARDThe object of teaching a child is to enable him to get along without his teacher.
More Elbert Hubbard Quotes
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Wise Man: One who sees the storm coming before the clouds appear.
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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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It does not take much strength to do things, but it requires great strength to decide on what to do.
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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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Do not take life too seriously. You will never get out of it alive.
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The greatest mistake a person can make is to be afraid of making one.
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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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I do not read a book; I hold a conversation with the author.
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As we grow better, we meet better people.
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Man is not what he thinks he is, but what he thinks, he is.
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The love we give away is the only love we keep.
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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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Constant effort and frequent mistakes are the stepping stones to genius.
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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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God will not look you over for medals degrees or diplomas, but for scars.
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All wages are based primarily on productive power. Anything else would be charity.
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Faith is the effort to believe what your common sense tells you is not true.
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He who does not understand your silence will probably not understand your words.
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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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The valuable person in any business is the individual who can and will cooperate with others.
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Genius is the capacity of avoiding hard work.
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The man who has no problems is out of the game.
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No one ever gets far unless he accomplishes the impossible at least once a day.
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Lovers are fools, but Nature makes them so.
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Meanness is more in half-doing than in omitting acts of generosity.
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If your religion does not change you, then you had better change your religion.
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