"Get happiness out of your work or you may never know what happiness is."
Writer, Publisher
Elbert Hubbard was an American writer and philosopher known for his influential essays and the founding of the Roycroft artisan community.
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"Get happiness out of your work or you may never know what happiness is."
"Life is a compromise between fate and free will."
"The secret of success is this: there is no secret of success."
"Live truth instead of professing it."
"Most diseases are the result of medication which has been prescribed to relieve and take away a beneficent and warning symptom on the part of Nature."
"The brain is a commodity used to fertilize ideas."
"Strong men can always afford to be gentle. Only the weak are intent on giving as good as they get."
"A pessimist is a man who has been compelled to live with an optimist."
"If men could only know each other, they would neither idolize nor hate."
"In these days, a man who says a thing cannot be done is quite apt to be interrupted by some idiot doing it."
"Gossip is vice enjoyed vicariously"
"Every quarrel begins in nothing and ends in a struggle for supremacy."
"People who are able to do their own thinking should not allow others to do it for them."
"No one ever gets far unless he accomplishes the impossible at least once a day."
"Politicians regard the public as a cow to be milked"
"A goal without a plan is a dream."
"What people need and what they want may be very different."
"Logic is one thing and commonsense another."
"The highest reward that God gives us for good work is the ability to do better work."
"If you work for a man, in heavens name work for him! If he pays you wages that supply you your bread and butter, work for him speak well of him, think well of him, stand by him and stand by the institution he represents. I think if I worked for a man I would work for him. I would not work for him a part of the time, and the rest of the time work against him. I would give an undivided service or none. If put to the pinch, an ounce of loyalty is worth a pound of cleverness."