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May Quotes by Elbert Hubbard
- What people need and what they want may be very different.... Teachers are those who educate the people to appreciate the things they need.
- Be yourself and think for yourself, and while your conclusions may not be infallible they will be nearer right than the inclusions forced upon you…
- What people need and what they want may be very different.
- If I supply you with a thought, you may remember it and you may not. But if I can make you think a thought for…
- Theology, by diverting the attention of men from this life to another, and by endeavoring to coerce all men into one religion, constantly preaching that…
- Seeing with better eyes We can recognize that the offender is a valuable human being who struggles with the same needs, pressures, and confusions that…
- 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…
- The line between failure and success is so fine that we are often on the line and do not know it. How many a person…
- Wisdom must go with Sympathy, else the emotions will become maudlin and pity may be wasted on a poodle instead of a child-on a field-mouse…
- A little more persistence, a little more effort, and what seemed hopeless failure may turn to glorious success.
- A retentive memory may be a good thing, but the ability to forget is the true token of greatness.
- Genius may have its limitations, but stupidity is not thus handicapped.
- Where much is expected from an individual, he may rise to the level of events and make the dream come true.
- It may happen sometimes that a long debate becomes the cause of a longer friendship. Commonly, those who dispute with one another at last agree.
- Get happiness out of your work or you may never know what happiness is.
More May Quotes
- Economic growth may one day turn out to be a curse rather than a good, and under no conditions can it either… — Hannah Arendt
- The defiance of established authority, religious and secular, social and political, as a world-wide phenomenon may well one day be accounted the… — Hannah Arendt
- With a goose-quill and a few sheets of paper, I mock myself of the universe. They say I am the son of… — Pietro Aretino
- Sometimes people who want to understand Haiti from a political perspective may be missing part of the picture. They also need to… — Jean-Bertrand Aristide
- Quickly, bring me a beaker of wine, so that I may wet my mind and say something clever. — Aristophanes
- Character may almost be called the most effective means of persuasion. — Aristotle
- If one way be better than another, that you may be sure is nature's way. — Aristotle
- We make war that we may live in peace. — Aristotle
- Inferiors revolt in order that they may be equal, and equals that they may be superior. Such is the state of mind… — Aristotle
- It is just that we should be grateful, not only to those with whose views we may agree, but also to those… — Aristotle
- Whether if soul did not exist time would exist or not, is a question that may fairly be asked; for if there… — Aristotle
- Pain is temporary. It may last a minute, or an hour, or a day, or a year, but eventually it will subside… — Lance Armstrong