"He who influences the thought of his times influences the times that follow."

Hubbard, Elbert on influence   

"One can endure sorrow alone, but it takes two to be glad."

Hubbard, Elbert on joy
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"Do not take life too seriously; you will never get out of it alive."

Hubbard, Elbert on life
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"The cheerful loser is the winner."

Hubbard, Elbert on losers and losing
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"Life in abundance comes only through great love."

Hubbard, Elbert on love
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"The love we give away is the only love we keep."

Hubbard, Elbert on love
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"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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"Your neighbor is the man who needs you."

Hubbard, Elbert on neighbors   

"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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"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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"The man who has no more problems to solve, is out of the game."

Hubbard, Elbert on problems
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"The man who does not understand your silence will probably not understand your words."

Hubbard, Elbert on silence
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"If you suffer, thank God! It is a sure sign that you are alive."

Hubbard, Elbert on suffering
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"Character is the result of two things: Mental attitude and the way we spend our time."

Hubbard, Elbert on character
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"Charity: a thing that begins at home, and usually stays there."

Hubbard, Elbert on charity   

"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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"He who does not understand your silence will probably not understand your words."

Hubbard, Elbert on understanding
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"No man needs a vacation so much as the man who has just had one."

Hubbard, Elbert on vacation
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"Victory; a matter of staying power."

Hubbard, Elbert on victory   

"The highest reward that God gives us for good work is the ability to do better work."

Hubbard, Elbert on work   

"A committee is a thing which takes a week to do what one good man can do in an hour."

Hubbard, Elbert on committees and meetings   

"To avoid criticism, do nothing, say nothing, be nothing."

Hubbard, Elbert on criticism
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"There is no education like adversity."

Disraeli, Benjamin on education
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"The greatest good you can do for another is not just to share your riches but to reveal to him his own."

Disraeli, Benjamin on friends and friendship
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"Amusement to an observing mind is study."

Disraeli, Benjamin on amusement
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"A great person is one who affects the mind of their generation."

Disraeli, Benjamin on greatness
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"To be conscious that you are ignorant is a great step to knowledge."

Disraeli, Benjamin on ignorance
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"Had it not been for you, I should have remained what I was when we first met, a prejudiced, narrow-minded being, with contracted sympathies and false knowledge, wasting my life on obsolete trifles, and utterly insensible to the privilege of living in this wondrous age of change and progress."

Disraeli, Benjamin on inspiration
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"Seeing much, suffering much, and studying much, are the three pillars of learning."

Disraeli, Benjamin on learning   

"Life is too short to be little. Man is never so manly as when he feels deeply, acts boldly, and expresses himself with frankness and with fervor."

Disraeli, Benjamin on life   

"We are all born for love. It is the principle of existence, and its only end."

Disraeli, Benjamin on love
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"In great cities men are brought together by the desire of gain. They are not in a state of co-operation, but of isolation, as to the making of fortunes; and for all the rest they are careless of neighbors. Christianity teaches us to love our neighbor as ourselves; modern society acknowledges no neighbor."

Disraeli, Benjamin on neighbors   

"Next to knowing when to seize an opportunity, the most important thing in life is to know when to forego an advantage."

Disraeli, Benjamin on opportunity
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"What we call public opinion is generally public sentiment."

Disraeli, Benjamin on public opinion   

"Nurture your mind with great thoughts, for you will never go any higher than you think."

Disraeli, Benjamin on thoughts and thinking
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"Never apologize for showing feeling. When you do so you apologize for truth."

Disraeli, Benjamin on truth
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"Time is precious, but truth is more precious than time."

Disraeli, Benjamin on truth   

"A friend is one that knows you as you are, understands where you have been, accepts what you have become, and still, gently allows you to grow."

Shakespeare, William on friends and friendship
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"We may encounter many defeats but we must not be defeated."

Angelou, Maya on defeat
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