A human being feels able and competent only so long as he is permitted to contribute as much as, or more, than he has contributed to him.
—L. Ron Hubbard
Topics: Ability
When you can be your own best audience and when your applause is the best applause you know of, you’re in good shape.
—L. Ron Hubbard
Topics: Audiences
A society in which women are taught anything at all but the management of a family, the care of men, and the creation of the future generation, is a society which is on the way out.
—L. Ron Hubbard
The only way you can be successful on a post or win at it is to be at cause over it.
—L. Ron Hubbard
Topics: Purpose
These shadows look so thick to him and weigh him down so that when he finds they are shadows and that he can see through them, walk through them and be again in the sun, he is enormously delighted. And I am afraid I am just as delighted as he is.
—L. Ron Hubbard
Topics: Prayer
If a man really wanted to make a million dollars, the best way to do it would be to start his own religion.
—L. Ron Hubbard
Nothing intoxicates some people like a sip of authority
—L. Ron Hubbard
Topics: Authority, One liners
The first step in handling anything is gaining the ability to face it.
—L. Ron Hubbard
Topics: Courage
Happiness is the overcoming of not unknown obstacles toward a known goal.
—L. Ron Hubbard
Topics: Happiness, Aspirations, Goals
The person who studiously avoids work usually works far harder than the man who pleasantly confronts it and does it. Men who cannot work are not happy men.
—L. Ron Hubbard
Topics: Work
I like to help others and count it as my greatest pleasure in life to see a person free himself of the shadows which darken his days
—L. Ron Hubbard
Topics: Life
A person is either the effect of his environment or is able to have an effect upon his environment.
—L. Ron Hubbard
Personnel and their capacity for work on their exact jobs is the basic key to income and success.
—L. Ron Hubbard
Topics: Work
The differences between a competent person and an incompetent person are demonstrated in his environment (surroundings).
—L. Ron Hubbard
Topics: Ability
There is a condition worse than blindness, and that is, seeing something that isn’t there.
—L. Ron Hubbard
Never regret yesterday. Life is in you today, and you make your tomorrow.
—L. Ron Hubbard
Topics: Today
A man who is willing to accept restriction and barriers and is not afraid of them is free. A man who does nothing but fight restrictions and barriers will usually be trapped.
—L. Ron Hubbard
Topics: Freedom
Probably the most neglected friend you have is you.
—L. Ron Hubbard
Topics: Self-Discovery
Those fields which most depend upon authoritative opinion for their data least contain known natural law
—L. Ron Hubbard
Topics: Authority
If you want to make a little money, write a book. If you want to make a lot of money, create a religion.
—L. Ron Hubbard
Being competent means the ability to control and operate the things in the environment and the environment itself.
—L. Ron Hubbard
Topics: Ability
The game is the thing. The wins and losses are not the thing. One loses every time one wins, for he then has no game.
—L. Ron Hubbard
Topics: Winning
Unless there is a vast alteration in man’s civilization as it stumbles along today, man will not be here very long.
—L. Ron Hubbard
Topics: Life
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