Elbert Hubbard Quotes

Constant effort and frequent mistakes are the stepping stones to genius.
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Effort Frequency Genius Mistake Stone
A woman will doubt everything you say except it be compliments to herself.
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Compliment Doubt Exception Herself Woman
The more one knows, the more one simplifies.
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Oneself Simplicity
The object of teaching a child is to enable him to get along without his teacher.
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Alone Children Education Object Teaching
Men are only as great as they are kind.
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Compassionate Greatness Kindness Man
Thoroughness 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.
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Achievement Art Character Genius Infinity Man Pain Success
The friend is the man who knows all about you, and still likes you.
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Friendship Man Secret Togetherness Yourself
Happiness is a habit—cultivate it.
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Cultivation Happiness One Liner
The reward of a good deed is in having done it.
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Action Complete Goodness Reward
The greatest mistake you can make in life is continually fearing that you’ll make one.
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Fear Greatness Life Mistake Oneself
To avoid criticism, do nothing, say nothing and be nothing.
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Avoid Criticism
An ounce of performance is worth more than a pound of preachment.
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Performance Preach Worth
Do not take life too seriously. You will never get out of it alive.
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Alive Death Inspirational Life Serious Yourself
Business is a fight, a continual struggle, just as life is.
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Business Fight Life Struggle
Pray that success will not come any faster than you are able to endure it.
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Endurance Fast Prayer Success Yourself
Be pleasant until ten o’clock in the morning and the rest of the day will take care of itself.
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Accomplishment Beginning Care Day Morning Start
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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Ability Courage Energy Failure Goal Organization People
If it was woman who put man out of Paradise, it is still woman, and woman only, who can lead him back.
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Himself Leadership Man Paradise Woman
The man who has no problems is out of the game.
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Game Man Problem
I do not read a book; I hold a conversation with the author.
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Author Book Conservation Hold Myself Reading
Failure — The man who can tell others what to do and how to do it, but never does it himself.
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Advice Failure Himself Man
We work to become, not to acquire.
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Achievement Difference One Liner Work
If you want work well done, select a busy man – the other kind has no time.
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Busy Kind Man Time Work
One machine can do the work of fifty ordinary men. No machine can do the work of one extraordinary man.
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Inspirational Machine Man Oneself Ordinary Work Worth
The supernatural is the natural not yet understood.
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Deep Impossible Natural Understand Wisdom
The love we give away is the only love we keep.
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Deep Generosity Love
I wish to live without hate, whim, jealousy, envy, and fear. I wish to be simple, honest, frank, natural . . to face any obstacle and meet every difficulty unabashed and unafraid.
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Afraid Difficult Hate Jealous Live Myself Obstacle

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