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“The world is moving so fast these days that the man who says it can't be done is generally interrupted by someone doing it.”
Elbert Hubbard
“The supernatural is the natural not yet understood.”
Elbert Hubbard
“The idea that is not dangerous is not worthy of being called an idea at all.”
Elbert Hubbard
“This will never be a civilized country until we spend more money for books than we do for chewing gum.”
Elbert Hubbard
“Where much is expected from an individual, he may rise to the level of events and make the dream come true.”
Elbert Hubbard
“Your friend is the man who knows all about you, and still likes you.”
Elbert Hubbard
“Many a man's reputation would not know his character if they met on the street.”
Elbert Hubbard
“It's pretty hard to be efficient without being obnoxious.”
Elbert Hubbard
“Love, we say, is life; but love without hope and faith is agonizing death.”
Elbert Hubbard
“We are not punished for our sins, but by them.”
Elbert Hubbard
“A pessimist? That's a person who has been intimately acquainted with an optimist.”
Elbert Hubbard
“Fear clogs faith liberates.”
Elbert Hubbard
“Fear is the thought of admitted inferiority.”
Elbert Hubbard
“He has achieved success who has worked well, laughed often, and loved much.”
Elbert Hubbard
“Initiative is doing the right things without being told.”
Elbert Hubbard
“Life is just one damned thing after another.”
Elbert Hubbard
“The happiness of this life depends less on what befalls you than the way in which you take it.”
Elbert Hubbard
“The man who knows it can't be done counts the risk, not the reward.”
Elbert Hubbard
“The reason men oppose progress is not that they hate progress, but that they love inertia.”
Elbert Hubbard
“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.”
Elbert Hubbard
“No one ever gets far unless he accomplishes the impossible at least once a day.”
Elbert Hubbard
“Polygamy: An endeavour to get more out of life than there is in it.”
Elbert Hubbard
“The church saves sinners, but science seeks to stop their manufacture.”
Elbert Hubbard
“The man who has no problems is out of the game.”
Elbert Hubbard
“The thing we fear we bring to pass.”
Elbert Hubbard
“There is something that is much more scarce, something finer far, something rarer than ability. It is the ability to recognize ability.”
Elbert Hubbard
“A part of kindness consists in loving people more than they deserve.”
Joseph Joubert
“Kindness is loving people more than they deserve.”
Joseph Joubert
“When you go in search of honey you must expect to be stung by bees.”
Joseph Joubert
“Imagination is the eye of the soul.”
Joseph Joubert