Quotes by Hubbard, Elbert

"Charity: a thing that begins at home, and usually stays there."

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"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."

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"Victory; a matter of staying power."

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

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"Get happiness out of your work or you may never know what happiness is."

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"Folks who never do any more than they get paid for, never get paid for anymore than they do."

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"We work to become, not to acquire."

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"Blessed is that man who has found his work."

Hubbard, Elbert on work
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"Forbid a man to think for himself or to act for himself and you may add the joy of piracy and the zest of smuggling to his life."

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"The path of civilization is paved with tin cans."

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

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"Do your work with your whole heart, and you will succeed -- there's so little competition."

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"It is the weak man who urges compromise -- never the strong man."

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"What people need and what they want may be very different."

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"Put yourself in the other man's place and then you will know why he thinks certain things and does certain deeds."

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

Hubbard, Elbert on criticism
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"To stop sinning suddenly."

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"Never Explainyour Friends do not need it and your Enemies will not believe you anyway"

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"The point I wish to make is this: [President William] McKinley gave Rowan a letter to be delivered to Garcia; Rowan took the letter & did not ask, Where is he at? By the Eternal! there is a man whose form should be cast in deathless bronze & the statue placed in every college of the land. It is not book-learning young men need, nor instruction about this and that, but a stiffening of the vertebrae which will cause them to be loyal to a trust, to act promptly, concentrate their energies: do the thingCarry a message to Garcia!"

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"If you work for a man, in heavens name work for him!If he pays you wages that supply you your bread and butter, work for himspeak well of him, think well of him, stand by him and stand by the institution he represents. I think if I worked for a man I would work for him. I would not work for him a part of the time, and the rest of the time work against him. I would give an undivided service or none. If put to the pinch, an ounce of loyalty is worth a pound of cleverness. "

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