Elbert Hubbard Quotes (page 4)

1859-1915, American Author, Publisher
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“A poor man who eats too much, as contradistinguished from a gourmand, who is a rich man who ''lives well.''”
Glutton
“Every spirit makes his own house, but as afterwards the house confines its spirit, you had better build well.”
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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.”
Cooperation
“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.”
Progress
“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?”
Perseverance
“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.”
Zest
“Art is the beautiful way of doing things. Science is the effective way of doing things. Business is the economic way of doing things.”
Methods
“There is no failure except in no longer trying. There is no defeat except from within, no insurmountable barrier except our own inherent weakness of purpose.”
Failure
“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.”
Planning