The object of teaching a child is to enable him to get along without his teacher.
ELBERT HUBBARDConstant effort and frequent mistakes are the stepping stones to genius.
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Do your work with your whole heart, and you will succeed – there’s so little competition.
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Happiness is a habit—cultivate it.
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I believe in the hands that work, in the brains that think, and in the hearts that love…I believe in sunshine, fresh air, friendship, calm sleep, beautiful thoughts.
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Never explain – your friends do not need it and your enemies will not believe you anyway.
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What people need and what they want may be very different.
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Art is not a thing; it is a way.
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Business is a fight, a continual struggle, just as life is.
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A man is not paid for having a head and hands, but for using them.
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God will not look you over for medals degrees or diplomas, but for scars.
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Constant effort and frequent mistakes are the stepping stones to genius.
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The recipe for perpetual ignorance is: Be satisfied with your opinions and content with your knowledge.
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The valuable person in any business is the individual who can and will cooperate with others.
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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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A little more persistence, a little more effort, and what seemed hopeless failure may turn to glorious success.
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The secret of success is this: there is no secret of success.
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Impossible things are simply those which so far have never been done.
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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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Pray that success will not come any faster than you are able to endure it.
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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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Money never made a fool of anybody; it only shows them up.
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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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Faith is the effort to believe what your common sense tells you is not true.
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Lawyers are men whom we hire to protect us from lawyers.
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Politicians regard the public as a cow to be milked.
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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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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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