A Quote by Elbert Hubbard

Success - To rise from the illusion of pursuit to the disillusion of possession.

Elbert Hubbard

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Disillusion Illusion Possession Pursuit Rise Success

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Elbert Hubbard
American - Writer
June 19, 1856 - May 7, 1915

Disillusion is the last illusion.

Wallace Stevens

Love is the child of illusion and the parent of disillusion.

Miguel de Unamuno

Disillusion can become itself an illusion If we rest in it.

T. S. Eliot

He had one illusion - France; and one disillusion - mankind, including Frenchmen.

John Maynard Keynes

I think the pursuit of happiness is the pursuit of reality because illusion never leaves us ultimately happy.

Parker Palmer

Our greatest illusion is disillusion. We imagine that we are disillusioned with life, when the truth is that we have not even begun to live.

Paul Brunton

It is always some illusion that creates disillusion, especially in the young, for whom the only alternative to perfection is cynicism.

Jacques Barzun

Replace your pursuit of success with the pursuit of contribution.

Peter Drucker

Once one has attained a high level of success at any pursuit and especially an unorthodox pursuit like rowing, one develops a number of generally self-congratulatory half-truths to explain how it happened that he ascended to that particular pinnacle. Often because original motivations don't seem to have much in common with the eventual success, the real and rationalized motivations are difficult to separate.

Stefan Kieszling

No illusion is more crucial than the illusion that great success and huge money buy you immunity from the common ills of mankind, such as cars that won't start.

Larry McMurtry

The life of Zen begins, therefore, in a disillusion with the pursuit of goals which do not really exist the good without the bad, the gratification of a self which is no more than an idea, and the morrow which never comes.

Alan Watts

The pursuit of knowledge is more valuable than its possession.

Albert Einstein

An object in possession seldom retains the same charm that it had in pursuit.

Pliny the Elder

Jefferson refused to pin his hopes on the occasional success of honest and unambitious men; on the contrary, the great danger was that philosophers would be lulled into complacence by the accidental rise of a Franklin or a Washington. Any government which made the welfare of men depend on the character of their governors was an illusion.