Quotes by Hubbard, Elbert

"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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"Dignity is a mask we wear to hide our ignorance."

Hubbard, Elbert on dignity
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"Editor: a person employed by a newspaper, whose business it is to separate the wheat from the chaff, and to see that the chaff is printed."

Hubbard, Elbert on editing and editors   

"You can lead a boy to college, but you cannot make him to think."

Hubbard, Elbert on education
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"An executive is a man who can make quick decisions and is sometimes right."

Hubbard, Elbert on executives   

"Every life is its own excuse for being."

Hubbard, Elbert on existence   

"We find what we expect to find, and we receive what we ask for."

Hubbard, Elbert on expectation
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"One who limits himself to his chosen mode of ignorance."

Hubbard, Elbert on experts   

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

Hubbard, Elbert on nations
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"Failure -- The man who can tell others what to do and how to do it, but never does it himself."

Hubbard, Elbert on failure
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"A failure is a man who has blundered, but is not able to cash in on the experience."

Hubbard, Elbert on failure
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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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"The supernatural is the natural not yet understood."

Hubbard, Elbert on faith
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"Freedom is a condition of mind, and the best way to secure it is to breed it."

Hubbard, Elbert on freedom
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"If you have no enemies you are apt to be in the same predicament in regard to friends."

Hubbard, Elbert on friends and friendship   

"Your friend is that man who knows all about you, and still likes you."

Hubbard, Elbert on friends and friendship
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"The only man who makes money following the races is one who does it with a broom and shovel."

Hubbard, Elbert on gambling   

"Genius is the ability to act rightly without precedent -- the power to do the right thing the first time."

Hubbard, Elbert on genius
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"Men are rich only as they give. He who gives great service gets great rewards."

Hubbard, Elbert on giving
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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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"A poor man who eats too much, as contradistinguished from a gourmand, who is a rich man who lives well."

Hubbard, Elbert on glutton   

"Gossip is only the lack of a worthy memory."

Hubbard, Elbert on gossip
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"Grammar is the grave of letters."

Hubbard, Elbert on grammar   

"Cultivate only the habits that you are willing should master you."

Hubbard, Elbert on habit
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"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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"One machine can do the work of fifty ordinary men. No machine can do the work of one extraordinary man."

Hubbard, Elbert on humankind   

"The idea that is not dangerous is not worthy of being called an idea at all."

Hubbard, Elbert on ideas   

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

Hubbard, Elbert on influence   

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

Hubbard, Elbert on joy
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"The stupidity of one brain multiplied by twelve."

Hubbard, Elbert on juries   

"Laughter is higher than all pain."

Hubbard, Elbert on laughter
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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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"If pleasures are greatest in anticipation, just remember that this is also true of trouble."

Hubbard, Elbert on anticipation
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"I would rather be able to appreciate things I can not have than to have things I am not able to appreciate."

Hubbard, Elbert on appreciation
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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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"Lovers are fools, but Nature makes them so."

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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