Quotes by Hubbard, Elbert

"Luck is tenacity of purpose."

Hubbard, Elbert on luck   

"Polygamy is an endeavor to get more out of life than there is in it."

Hubbard, Elbert on marriage   

"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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"Art is the beautiful way of doing things. Science is the effective way of doing things. Business is the economic way of doing things."

Hubbard, Elbert on methods   

"Little minds are interested in the extraordinary; great minds in the commonplace."

Hubbard, Elbert on mind   

"An event described by those to whom it was told by men who did not see it."

Hubbard, Elbert on miracles   

"The greatest mistake a man can make is to be afraid of making one."

Hubbard, Elbert on mistakes
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"Money never made a fool of anybody; it only shows them up."

Hubbard, Elbert on money   

"When someone says it ain't the money, but its the principal of the thing, it's the money."

Hubbard, Elbert on money   

"Classical music is the kind we keep thinking will turn into a tune."

Hubbard, Elbert on music   

"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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"A pessimist is one who has been compelled to live with an optimist."

Hubbard, Elbert on pessimism   

"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."

Hubbard, Elbert on planning   

"One can play comedy, two are required for melodrama, but a tragedy demands three."

Hubbard, Elbert on plays   

"Play needs direction as well as work."

Hubbard, Elbert on plays   

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

Hubbard, Elbert on preparation   

"There was one who thought himself above me, and he was above me until he had that thought."

Hubbard, Elbert on pride   

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

Hubbard, Elbert on problems
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"The world is moving so fast now-a-days that the man who says it can't be done is generally interrupted by someone doing it."

Hubbard, Elbert on progress   

"If you want work well done, select a busy man; the other kind has no time."

Hubbard, Elbert on quality   

"Give us a religion that will help us to live -- we can die without assistance."

Hubbard, Elbert on religion   

"Rivalry is the life of trade, and the death of the trader."

Hubbard, Elbert on rivalry   

"Secrets are things we give to others to keep for us."

Hubbard, Elbert on secrets   

"Human service is the highest form of self-interest for the person who serves."

Hubbard, Elbert on service   

"The man who does not understand your silence will probably not understand your words."

Hubbard, Elbert on silence
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"Those who do unlawful acts are no more sinners in the eyes of God than we who think them."

Hubbard, Elbert on sin   

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"Every spirit makes its house, but as afterwards the house confines the spirit, you had better build well."

Hubbard, Elbert on spirituality
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"Genius may have its limitations, but stupidity is not thus handicapped."

Hubbard, Elbert on stupidity
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"The secret of success is this: there is no secret of success."

Hubbard, Elbert on success   

"He who has achieved success has worked well, laughed often and loved much."

Hubbard, Elbert on success
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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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"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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"Positive anything is better than negative nothing."

Hubbard, Elbert on action   

"Allow motion to equal emotion."

Hubbard, Elbert on action   

"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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