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Elbert Hubbard

Many a man's reputation would not know his character if they met on the street.

Topic: Reputation
Location: Nevada, Reno
Photo: Jeffrey Benjamin

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We awaken in others the same attitude of mind we hold toward them. — Elbert Hubbard

Attitude Customer Service Thinking

Self-discipline is the ability to make yourself do what you should do, when you should do it, whether you feel like it or not. — Elbert Hubbard

Discipline Goals Life Self

Constant effort and frequent mistakes are the stepping stones to genius.

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Genius Mistakes

Do your work with your whole heart, and you will succeed—there's so little competition.

› Elbert Hubbard

Competition Work

I would rather be able to appreciate things I can not have than to have things I am not able to appreciate.

› Elbert Hubbard

There is no failure except in no longer trying.

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Action Failure Success

Your friend is the man who knows all about you, and still likes you. — Elbert Hubbard

Do not take life too seriously. You will never get out of it alive. — Elbert Hubbard

No man needs a vacation as much a s the man who has just had one. — Elbert Hubbard

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And the day came when the risk to remain tight in a bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom. — Anais Nin

Want without work is delusion. — Jeffrey Benjamin

We confide in our strength, without boasting of it; we respect that of others, without fearing it. — Thomas Jefferson

Confidence Fear Respect Strength

You can accomplish by kindness what you cannot by force. — Publilius Syrus

Kindness Love Negotiation

A thing is important if anyone think it important. — William James

Society Thinking

Ambition is pitiless. Any merit that it cannot use it finds despicable. — Eleanor Roosevelt

The average vacation is one-tenth playing—nine-tenths paying. — Arnold Glasow

Humor Money Travel Vacation

There is no wealth but life. — John Ruskin

Make happy those who are near, and those who are far will come. — Chinese Proverb

More on Reputation

Good name in man and woman is the immediate jewel of their souls. — William Shakespeare

We are all something, but none of us are everything. — Blaise Pascal

Reputation Self

It is with literature as with law or empire—an established name is an estate in tenure, or a throne in possession. — Edgar Allan Poe

What a man misses in heaven is company. — Mark Twain

Character Friendship Reputation Self Solitude

We judge ourselves by what we feel capable of doing, while others judge us by what we have already done. — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Integrity Reputation Self Thinking

Do you wish people to think well of you? Don't speak well of yourself. — Blaise Pascal

Action Public Speaking Reputation Speech

One should act as he may, not as he would like to. — Hungarian Proverb

Business Communication Reputation Responsibility

What people say, what people do, and what they say they do are entirely different things. — Margaret Mead

Action Communication Reputation

The first method of estimating the intelligence of a ruler is to look at the men he has around him.

› Niccolo Machiavelli

Friendship Intelligence Leadership Reputation

You have no idea what your legacy will be. Your legacy is what you do every day. Your legacy is every life you’ve touched, every person whose life was either moved or not. It’s every person you’ve harmed or helped. That’s your legacy.

› Maya Angelou

Action Reputation

A bore is a person who opens his mouth and puts his feats in it. — Henry Ford

Awareness Humor Reputation

One who tells you about others will tell others about you. — African Proverb

Communication Example Reputation

Whatever you are, be a good one. — Abraham Lincoln

Character Leadership Reputation

If you do not tell the truth about yourself you cannot tell it about other people. — Virginia Woolf

Communication Honesty Reputation Self Truth

I have never believed there was one code of morality for a public and another for a private man. — Thomas Jefferson

Cautious, careful people, always casting about to preserve their reputation and social standing, never can bring about a reform. Those who are really in earnest must be willing to be anything or nothing in the world’s estimation. — Susan B. Anthony

Change Character Courage Fear Leadership Reputation Society

The most important thing for a young man is to establish credit—a reputation and character. — John D. Rockefeller

Character Reputation

’Tis better to be vile than vile esteemed, when not to be receives reproach of being. — William Shakespeare

Whoever is careless with truth in small matters, cannot be trusted with important affairs. — Albert Einstein

Character Reputation Trust Truth

Self-esteem is the reputation we acquire with ourselves. — Nathaniel Branden

Reputation Self Self-esteem

If you would not be forgotten as soon as you are gone, either write things worth reading or do things worth writing. — Benjamin Franklin

Whenever you do a thing, act as if all the world were watching. — Thomas Jefferson

Character Integrity Leadership Reputation

You cannot have a proud and chivalrous spirit if your conduct is mean and paltry; for whatever a man’s actions are, such must be his spirit.

› Demosthenes

Action Reputation Self

Glass, china, and reputation are easily cracked, and never mended well.

› Benjamin Franklin

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