The reason men oppose progress is not that they hate progress, but that they love inertia.
Quote by Elbert Hubbard
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The reason men oppose progress is not that they hate progress, but that they love inertia.
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Elbert Hubbard Quotes
- Love, we say, is life but love without hope and faith is agonizing death.
- Polygamy: An endeavour to get more out of life than there is in it.
- The love we give away is the only love we keep.
- There is no failure except in no longer trying.
- The only foes that threaten America are the enemies at home, and these are ignorance, superstition and incompetence.
- A man is as good as he has to be, and a woman as bad as she dares.
- How many a man has thrown up his hands at a time when a little more effort, a little more patience would have achieved success.
- Reversing your treatment of the man you have wronged is better than asking his forgiveness.
- The highest reward that God gives us for good work is the ability to do better work.
- A failure is a man who has blundered, but is not able to cash in the experience.
Best Quotes
- I don't feel restless, I just like to travel.
- While I take inspiration from the past, like most Americans, I live for the future.
- Let's be realistic, how many people are buying a $2,000 skirt? I love to design things that people can actually buy. I'm staggered by what a boot costs today.
- Motorists who want to save money on gas will demand and buy more fuel-efficient vehicles. We should not limit their freedom with more government regulations.
- Man, being reasonable, must get drunk the best of life is but intoxication.
- The thing about Republicans is that they don't care so much about respect, but they love fear, at least in others.
- Particularly black Americans, many of them, from quotes that I have seen and conversations I've had, are sort of insulted that the civil rights movement is being hijacked - the rhetoric of the civil rights movement is being hijacked for something like same sex marriage. Black Americans tend to have a higher degree of religiosity.
- The silent lion hunts a game whereas the roaring lion never
- I try to speak my points of view about black America, and how I feel about black men and the role that black men should play in their lives with their children and in their lives with their women.
- You are 27 or 28 right? It is very tough to live at that age. When nothing is sure. I have sympathy with you.