Elbert Hubbard quotes - page 12

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. (Elbert Hubbard)
Genius is the ability to act rightly without precedent the power to do the right thing the first time. View quote
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If I supply you a thought, you may remember it and you may not. But if I can make you think a thought for yourself, I have indeed added to your stature. View quote
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The trouble with many married people is that they are trying to get more out of marriage than there is in it. View quote
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The weaknesses of the many make the leader possible. View quote
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Righteous indignation Your own wrath as opposed to the shocking bad temper of others. View quote
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An executive a man who can make quick decisions and is sometimes right. View quote
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Failure - The man who can tell others what to do and how to do it, but never does it himself. View quote
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Most Authors cringe and flatter and Fish for compliments. If they fail to get Applause, they say the World is a Scurvy Place and those who dwell therein a Dirty Lot: if they succeed, they give thanks to Nobody, saying they got only what their Meritt entitles them to. But I rather like the World. The Flesh is pleasing and the Devil does not trouble me. View quote
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I have no perfect panacea for human ills. And even if I had I would not attempt to present a system of philosophy between the soup and fish, but this much I will say: The distinctively modern custom of marital bundling is the doom of chivalry and death of passion. It wears all tender sentiment to a napless warp, and no wonder is it that the novelist, without he has a seared and bitter heart, hesitates to follow the couple beyond the church door. There is no greater reproach to our civilization than the sight of men joking the boy whose heart is pierced by the first rays of a life-giving sun, or of our expecting a girl to blush because she is twice God's child today she was yesterday. View quote
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