Elbert Hubbard Quotes on Growth

8 quotes

  1. The greatest mistake you can make in life is to be continually fearing you will make one.

  2. To remain on earth you must be useful, otherwise Nature regards you as old metal, and is only watching for a chance to melt you over.

  3. To supply a thought is mental massage; but to evolve a thought of your own is an achievement. Thinking is a brain exercise-and no faculty grows save as it is exercised. [Pg. 64.]

  4. I believe in the paradox of success through failure.

  5. I believe it is possible that I shall make other creeds, and change this one, or add to it, from time to time, as new light may come to me.

  6. A retentative memory may be a good thing, but the ability to forget is the true token of greatness.

  7. Intelligence is not to make no mistakes, but quickly to see how to make them good.

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  8. We work to become, not to acquire.

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