A Quote by Elbert Hubbard

We work to become, not to acquire.

Elbert Hubbard

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

I have a motto: Work to become, not to acquire.

Alan Kulwicki

The major value of reaching goals is not to acquire it, but it's the person you become while you're working to acquire it.

Jim Rohn

Bourgeois society ought long ago to have gone to the dogs through sheer idleness; for those of its members who work, acquire nothing, and those who acquire anything, do not work.

Karl Marx

Learning is a daily experience and a lifetime mission. I truly believe in the saying "We work to become, not to acquire."

Bill Russell

In order to be a success in business, there is one thing you must do. You cannot be successful without it. That is WORK. I have not told you anything new. Everyone knows that you cannot be successful in anything without work. Why does not everyone work? Because some lack the one thing that makes men want to work - ENTHUSIASM. That is something no one can give you. You must acquire it yourself, and the only way that you can become enthusiastic about anything is to have a thorough KNOWLEDGE of it. You have never seen an enthusiastic man who was lazy.

Thomas Watson, Jr.

Success or failure in business is caused more by mental attitude even than by mental capacity. Banish the fear-attitude; acquire the confident attitude. And remember that the only way to acquire it is-to acquire it.

Walter Dill Scott

One is born to be a dancer. No teacher can work miracles, nor will years of training make a good dancer of an untalented pupil. One may be able to acquire a certain technical facility, but no one can ever 'acquire an exceptional talent.' I have never prided myself on having an unusually gifted pupil. A Pavlova is no one's pupil but God's.

George Balanchine

Love is a teacher, but one must know how to acquire it, for it is difficult to acquire, it is dearly bought, by long work over a long time, for one ought to love not for a chance moment but for all time. Anyone, even a wicked man, can love by chance.

Fyodor Dostoevsky

The majority work to make a living; some work to acquire wealth or fame, while a few work because there is something within them which demands expression...Only a few truly love it.

Edmond Bordeaux Szekely

There are two ways to be rich: 1. Acquire great wealth 2. Acquire few needs.

Doris Janzen Longacre

Before we acquire great power we must acquire wisdom to use it well.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

In former days, men sold themselves to the Devil to acquire magical powers. Nowadays they acquire those powers from science, and find themselves compelled to become devils. There is no hope for the world unless power can be tamed, and brought into the service, not of this or that group of fanatical tyrants, but of the whole human race, white and yellow and black, fascist and communist and democrat; for science has made it inevitable that all must live or all must die.

Bertrand Russell

Economic theory has nothing to say as to what commodity will acquire the status of money. Historically, it happened to be gold. But if the physical makeup of our world would have been different or is to become different from what it is now, some other commodity would have become or might become money. The market will decide.

Hans-Hermann Hoppe

If I can acquire money and also keep myself modest and faithful and magnanimous, point out the way, and I will acquire it.

Epictetus

Acquire peace of mind by making the effort to become the best of which you are capable.

John Wooden

To be functionally fluent in a language, for instance, in most cases you need about 1,200 words. To acquire a total of vocabulary words, if you really train someone well they can acquire 200 to 300 words a day, which means that in a week they can acquire the vocabulary necessary to speak a language.

Tim Ferriss

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