Quotes by Elbert Hubbard

Elbert Hubbard
American writer and publisher
Alive from: 1859-1915
Category: Media | Writers (Contemporary)
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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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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.
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A man who marries a woman to educate her falls a victim to the same fallacy as the woman who marries a man to reform him.
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A retentive memory may be a good thing, but the ability to forget is the true token of greatness.
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It is a fine thing to have ability, but the ability to discover ability in others is the true test.
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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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A conservative is a man who is too cowardly to fight and too fat to run.
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A failure is a man who has blundered, but is not able to cash in on the experience.
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A friend is one who knows you and loves you just the same.
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A man is not paid for having a head and hands, but for using them.
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A pessimist is one who has been compelled to live with an optimist.
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A poor man who eats too much, as contradistinguished from a gourmand, who is a rich man who ''lives well.''
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Allow motion to equal emotion.
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An event described by those to whom it was told by men who did not see it.
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An executive is a man who can make quick decisions and is sometimes right.
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