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Elbert Hubbard Quotes

«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.»
Author: Elbert Hubbard | About: World | Keywords: interrupted
«The church saves sinners, but science seeks to stop their manufacture.»
«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.»
«The difference in men does not lie in the size of their hands, nor in the perfection of their bodies, but in this one sublime ability of concentration: to throw the weight in one blow, to live eternity in an hour.»
«The ineffable joy of forgiving and being forgiven forms an ecstasy that might well arouse the envy of the gods.»
«The sculptor produces the beautiful statue by chipping away such parts of the marble block as are not needed--it is a process of elimination.»
«No explanation ever explains the necessity of making one.»
Author: Elbert Hubbard | Keywords: explains, explanation
«A committee is a thing which takes a week to do what one good man can do in an hour.»
«The path of least resistance is what makes rivers run crooked.»
«To know when to be generous and when firm ? this is wisdom»
Author: Elbert Hubbard | Keywords: firm, generous