The highest reward that God gives us for good work is the ability to do better work.
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Elbert Hubbard
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About Elbert Hubbard
Elbert Green Hubbard was an American writer, publisher, artist, and philosopher. Raised in Hudson, Illinois, he had early success as a traveling salesman for the Larkin Soap Company. Hubbard is known best as the founder of the Roycroft artisan community in East Aurora, New York, an influential exponent of the Arts and Crafts movement.
Read on Wikipedia → Find books by Elbert HubbardOne machine can do the work of fifty ordinary men. No machine can do the work of one extraordinary man.
Do your work with your whole heart, and you will succeed - there's so little competition.
We work to become, not to acquire.
The best preparation for good work tomorrow is to do good work today.
Every man is a damn fool for at least five minutes every day wisdom consists in not exceeding the limit.
Live truth instead of professing it.
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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Character is the result of two things: mental attitude and the way we spend our time.
One machine can do the work of fifty ordinary men. No machine can do the work of one extraordinary man.
The object of teaching a child is to enable him to get along without his teacher.
The teacher is the one who gets the most out of the lessons, and the true teacher is the learner.
He has achieved success who has worked well, laughed often, and loved much.
The line between failure and success is so fine that we scarcely know when we pass it: so fine that we are often on the line and do not know it.
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.
A little more persistence, a little more effort, and what seemed hopeless failure may turn to glorious success.
Pray that success will not come any faster than you are able to endure it.
It does not take much strength to do things, but it requires great strength to decide on what to do.
The church saves sinners, but science seeks to stop their manufacture.
Art is the beautiful way of doing things. Science is the effective way of doing things. Business is the economic way of doing things.
We are punished by our sins, not for them.
Positive anything is better than negative nothing.
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.
Do your work with your whole heart, and you will succeed - there's so little competition.
Be pleasant until ten o'clock in the morning and the rest of the day will take care of itself.