Elbert Hubbard
Quotes by Elbert Hubbard
Often we can help each other most by leaving each other alone at other times we need the hand-grasp and the word of cheer.
— Elbert Hubbard
Art is not a thing it is a way.
— Elbert Hubbard
The sculptor produces the beautiful statue by chipping away such parts of the marble block as are not needed - it is a process of elimination.
— Elbert Hubbard
Art is the beautiful way of doing things. Science is the effective way of doing things. Business is the economic way of doing things.
— Elbert Hubbard
Character is the result of two things: mental attitude and the way we spend our time.
— Elbert Hubbard
We awaken in others the same attitude of mind we hold toward them.
— Elbert Hubbard
The best preparation for good work tomorrow is to do good work today.
— Elbert Hubbard
Editor: a person employed by a newspaper, whose business it is to separate the wheat from the chaff, and to see that the chaff is printed.
— Elbert Hubbard
Die, v.: To stop sinning suddenly.
— Elbert Hubbard
Love, we say, is life but love without hope and faith is agonizing death.
— Elbert Hubbard
A failure is a man who has blundered, but is not able to cash in the experience.
— Elbert Hubbard
There is no failure except in no longer trying.
— Elbert Hubbard
A little more persistence, a little more effort, and what seemed hopeless failure may turn to glorious success.
— Elbert Hubbard
Optimism is a kind of heart stimulant - the digitalis of failure.
— Elbert Hubbard
The line between failure and success is so fine that we scarcely know when we pass it: so fine that we are often on the line and do not know it.
— Elbert Hubbard
Fear clogs faith liberates.
— Elbert Hubbard
Fear is the thought of admitted inferiority.
— Elbert Hubbard
The thing we fear we bring to pass.
— Elbert Hubbard
The ineffable joy of forgiving and being forgiven forms an ecstasy that might well arouse the envy of the gods.
— Elbert Hubbard
Reversing your treatment of the man you have wronged is better than asking his forgiveness.
— Elbert Hubbard
Responsibility is the price of freedom.
— Elbert Hubbard
Every tyrant who has lived has believed in freedom for himself.
— Elbert Hubbard
A friend is one who knows you and loves you just the same.
— Elbert Hubbard
Never explain - your friends do not need it and your enemies will not believe you anyway.
— Elbert Hubbard
The friend is the man who knows all about you, and still likes you.
— Elbert Hubbard
Friendship, like credit, is highest when it is not used.
— Elbert Hubbard
It may happen sometimes that a long debate becomes the cause of a longer friendship. Commonly, those who dispute with one another at last agree.
— Elbert Hubbard
Do not take life too seriously. You will never get out of it alive.
— Elbert Hubbard
God will not look you over for medals degrees or diplomas, but for scars.
— Elbert Hubbard
If you suffer, thank God! It is a sure sign that you are alive.
— Elbert Hubbard
The highest reward that God gives us for good work is the ability to do better work.
— Elbert Hubbard
A retentive memory may be a good thing, but the ability to forget is the true token of greatness.
— Elbert Hubbard
A man is as good as he has to be, and a woman as bad as she dares.
— Elbert Hubbard
Life in abundance comes only through great love.
— Elbert Hubbard
Little minds are interested in the extraordinary great minds in the commonplace.
— Elbert Hubbard
It does not take much strength to do things, but it requires great strength to decide on what to do.
— Elbert Hubbard
Men are only as great as they are kind.
— Elbert Hubbard
The happiness of this life depends less on what befalls you than the way in which you take it.
— Elbert Hubbard
The only foes that threaten America are the enemies at home, and these are ignorance, superstition and incompetence.
— Elbert Hubbard
The recipe for perpetual ignorance is: Be satisfied with your opinions and content with your knowledge.
— Elbert Hubbard
The greatest mistake you can make in life is continually fearing that you'll make one.
— Elbert Hubbard
Life is just one damned thing after another.
— Elbert Hubbard
Polygamy: An endeavour to get more out of life than there is in it.
— Elbert Hubbard
The love we give away is the only love we keep.
— Elbert Hubbard
Love grows by giving. The love we give away is the only love we keep. The only way to retain love is to give it away.
— Elbert Hubbard
The reason men oppose progress is not that they hate progress, but that they love inertia.
— Elbert Hubbard
Never get married in college it's hard to get a start if a prospective employer finds you've already made one mistake.
— Elbert Hubbard
One machine can do the work of fifty ordinary men. No machine can do the work of one extraordinary man.
— Elbert Hubbard
This will never be a civilized country until we spend more money for books than we do for chewing gum.
— Elbert Hubbard
Be pleasant until ten o'clock in the morning and the rest of the day will take care of itself.
— Elbert Hubbard
Do your work with your whole heart, and you will succeed - there's so little competition.
— Elbert Hubbard
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.
— Elbert Hubbard
Positive anything is better than negative nothing.
— Elbert Hubbard
We are punished by our sins, not for them.
— Elbert Hubbard
The church saves sinners, but science seeks to stop their manufacture.
— Elbert Hubbard
Pray that success will not come any faster than you are able to endure it.
— Elbert Hubbard
He has achieved success who has worked well, laughed often, and loved much.
— Elbert Hubbard
The teacher is the one who gets the most out of the lessons, and the true teacher is the learner.
— Elbert Hubbard
The object of teaching a child is to enable him to get along without his teacher.
— Elbert Hubbard
Live truth instead of professing it.
— Elbert Hubbard
Every man is a damn fool for at least five minutes every day wisdom consists in not exceeding the limit.
— Elbert Hubbard
We work to become, not to acquire.
— Elbert Hubbard