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• A school should not be a preparation for life. A school should be life.

  Elbert Hubbard

  Education, Teacher, Retirement

  Elbert Hubbard (1902). “Contemplations: Being Several Short Essays Helpful Sermonettes, Epigrams and Orphic Sayings”

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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.

  Elbert Hubbard

  Inspirational, Thanksgiving, Gratitude

  Elbert Hubbard (1916). “The Philosophy of Elbert Hubbard”

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

  Elbert Hubbard

  Pride

  Elbert Hubbard (1911). “A Thousand & One Epigrams: Selected from the Writings of Elbert Hubbard”

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• Art is not a thing; it is a way.

  Elbert Hubbard

  Art, Way, Art Is

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• The object of teaching a child is to enable him to get along without his teacher.

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  Inspirational, Education, Teacher

  Elbert Hubbard, Bert Hubbard (1923). “Selected writings of Elbert Hubbard: his mintage of wisdom, coined from a life of love, laughter and work”

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• There is something that is much more scarce, something finer far, something rarer than ability. It is the ability to recognize ability. The sternest comment that can be made against employers as a class lies in the fact that men of Ability usually succeed in showing their worth in spite of their employer, and not with his assistance and encouragement.

  Elbert Hubbard

  Encouragement, Lying, Class

  Elbert Hubbard (1901). “A Message to Garcia and Thirteen Other Things: As Written”

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• Football: A sport that bears the same relation to education that bullfighting does to agriculture.

  Elbert Hubbard

  Sports, Football, Agriculture

  Quoted in Colin Jarman The Guinness Dictionary of Sports Quotations (1990).

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• Some men can get results if kindly encouraged, but give me the kind that do things in spite of hell.

  Elbert Hubbard

  Men, Giving, Kind

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• Parties who want milk should not seat themselves on a stool in the middle of the field in hope that the cow will back up to them.

  Elbert Hubbard

  Motivational, Hope, Party

  Elbert Hubbard (1922). “Selected Writings of Elbert Hubbard ...”

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• The cure for grief is motion.

  Elbert Hubbard

  Inspirational, Grief, Action

  Elbert Hubbard, Bert Hubbard (1923). “Selected writings of Elbert Hubbard: his mintage of wisdom, coined from a life of love, laughter and work”

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• The secret of success is this: there is no secret of success.

  Elbert Hubbard

  Success, Secret, Victory

  Elbert Hubbard (2005). “Loyalty in Business: One and Twenty Other Good Things”, p.29, Cosimo, Inc.

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

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  Ignorance, Dignity, Hiding

  Elbert Hubbard, Bert Hubbard (1923). “Selected writings of Elbert Hubbard: his mintage of wisdom, coined from a life of love, laughter and work”

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• We will not be dictated to by men with less intelligence, energy, initiative and ambition than we ourselves possess.

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  Ambition, Men, Energy

  Elbert Hubbard (2005). “Loyalty in Business: One and Twenty Other Good Things”, p.112, Cosimo, Inc.

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• The man who doesn't relax and hoot a few hoots voluntarily, now and then, is in great danger of hooting hoots and standing on his head for the edification of the pathologist and trained nurse, a little later on.

  Elbert Hubbard

  Success, Stress, Men

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• All wages are based primarily on productive power. Anything else would be charity.

  Elbert Hubbard

  Business, Would Be, Wages

  Elbert Hubbard (1922). “Selected Writings of Elbert Hubbard ...”

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• Many a man's reputation would not know his character if they met on the street.

  Elbert Hubbard

  Integrity, Character, Men

  Elbert Hubbard (1902). “Contemplations: Being Several Short Essays Helpful Sermonettes, Epigrams and Orphic Sayings”

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• Business is a fight, a continual struggle, just as life is

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  Struggle, Fighting, Life Is

  Elbert Hubbard (2005). “Loyalty in Business: One and Twenty Other Good Things”, p.42, Cosimo, Inc.

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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.

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  Inspiring, Success, Patience

  Elbert Hubbard (2005). “Loyalty in Business: One and Twenty Other Good Things”, p.28, Cosimo, Inc.

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• A friend is one who knows you and loves you just the same.

  Elbert Hubbard

  Friendship, Best Friend, True Friend

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Luck is tenacity of purpose.

  Elbert Hubbard

  Luck, Purpose, Tenacity

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• Success is the most natural thing in the world. The person who does not succeed has placed himself in opposition to the laws of the Universe.

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  Law, Succeed, Doe

  Elbert Hubbard (2008). “A Message to Garcia: And Other Classic Success Writings”, p.20, Penguin

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• Fortitude: That quality of mind which does not care what happens so long as it does not happen to us.

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  Strength, Long, Mind

  Elbert Hubbard, Bert Hubbard (1923). “Selected writings of Elbert Hubbard: his mintage of wisdom, coined from a life of love, laughter and work”

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• Cultivate only the habits that you are willing should master you

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  Old Habits, Advice, Should

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• Academic education is the act of memorizing things read in books, and things told by college professors who got their education mostly by memorizing things read in books.

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  Book, College, Academic

  Harry Persons Taber, Elbert Hubbard (1910). “The Philistine”

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• Our desires always disappoint us; for though we meet with something that gives us satisfaction, yet it never thoroughly answers our expectation.

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  Disappointment, Heartache, Giving

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