"Habit is a form of exercise"

Hubbard, Elbert on habit
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"The mintage of wisdom is to know that rest is rust, and that real life is love, laughter, and work."

Hubbard, Elbert on happiness
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"Intelligence is not to make no mistakes, But quickly to see how to make them good."

Hubbard, Elbert on intelligence and intellectuals
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"Lovers are fools, but Nature makes them so."

Hubbard, Elbert on love
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"God will not look you over for medal, degrees or diplomas, but for scars."

Hubbard, Elbert on achievement
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"There is no failure except in no longer trying. There is no defeat except from within, no insurmountable barrier except our own inherent weakness of purpose."

Hubbard, Elbert on failure
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"Never explain -- your friends do not need it, and your enemies will not believe you anyway."

Hubbard, Elbert on nations
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"It does not take much strength to do things, but it requires great strength to decide what to do."

Hubbard, Elbert on decisions
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"The main things which seem to me important on their own account, and not merely as a means to other account, and not merely as a means to other things, are knowledge, art instinctive happiness, and relations of friendship or affection."

Russell, Bertrand on importance   

"Extreme hopes are born from extreme misery."

Russell, Bertrand on hope
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"One of the signs of an approaching nervous breakdown is the belief that one's work is terribly important."

Russell, Bertrand on health
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"To fear love is to fear life, and those who fear life are already three parts dead."

Russell, Bertrand on death
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"Where parents do too much for their children, the children will not do much for themselves."

Hubbard, Elbert on parents and parenting
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"Life in abundance comes only through great love."

Hubbard, Elbert on love
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"Luck is tenacity of purpose."

Hubbard, Elbert on luck   

"The teacher is one who makes two ideas grow where only one grew before."

Hubbard, Elbert on teacher
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"Live truth instead of professing it."

Hubbard, Elbert on truth
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"This will never be a civilized country until we expend more money for books than we do for chewing gum."

Hubbard, Elbert on books - reading   

"Character is the result of two things: Mental attitude and the way we spend our time."

Hubbard, Elbert on character
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"It is a fine thing to have ability, but the ability to discover ability in others is the true test."

Hubbard, Elbert on ability
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"He who has achieved success has worked well, laughed often and loved much."

Hubbard, Elbert on success
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"Human service is the highest form of self-interest for the person who serves."

Hubbard, Elbert on service   

"The best preparation for good work tomorrow is to do good work today"

Hubbard, Elbert on preparation   

"A retentive memory may be a good thing, but the ability to forget is the true token of greatness."

Hubbard, Elbert on memory
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"The greatest mistake a man can make is to be afraid of making one."

Hubbard, Elbert on mistakes
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"How many a man has thrown up his hands at a time when a little more effort, a little more patience would have achieved success?"

Hubbard, Elbert on perseverance
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"A person born with an instinct for poverty."

Hubbard, Elbert on poetry and poets   

"We awaken in others the same attitude of mind we hold toward them."

Hubbard, Elbert on attitude
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"The highest reward that God gives us for good work is the ability to do better work."

Hubbard, Elbert on work   

"Finish each day and be done with it. You have done what you could. Some blunders and absurdities no doubt crept in; forget them as soon as you can. Tomorrow is a new day; begin it well and serenely and with too high a spirit to be encumbered with your old nonsense."

Emerson, Ralph Waldo on achievement
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"The greater the difficulty the more glory in surmounting it. Skillful pilots gain their reputation from storms and tempests."

Epictetus on achievement
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"You can do very little with faith, but you can do nothing without it."

Butler, Samuel on faith
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"No one has ever learned fully to know themselves."

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von on self discovery
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