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Elbert Hubbard
American
Writer
About the author
Men are only as great as they are kind.
Elbert Hubbard,
American
Writer
#Men
Little minds are interested in the extraordinary; great minds in the commonplace.
Elbert Hubbard,
American
Writer
Friendship, like credit, is highest when it is not used.
Elbert Hubbard,
American
Writer
#Friendship
#Credit
Fear is the thought of admitted inferiority.
Elbert Hubbard,
American
Writer
#Fear
#Thought
#Inferiority
Live truth instead of professing it.
Elbert Hubbard,
American
Writer
#Truth
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,
American
Writer
#Love
#Giving
He has achieved success who has worked well, laughed often, and loved much.
Elbert Hubbard,
American
Writer
#Success
Many a man's reputation would not know his character if they met on the street.
Elbert Hubbard,
American
Writer
#Character
#Man
#Reputation
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,
American
Writer
#Time
#Success
#Patience
#Man
#Effort
Never explain - your friends do not need it and your enemies will not believe you anyway.
Elbert Hubbard,
American
Writer
#Will
#Friends
#Enemies
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,
American
Writer
#College
#Mistake
No one ever gets far unless he accomplishes the impossible at least once a day.
Elbert Hubbard,
American
Writer
#Day
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,
American
Writer
#Word
#Help
One machine can do the work of fifty ordinary men. No machine can do the work of one extraordinary man.
Elbert Hubbard,
American
Writer
#Work
#Man
#Men
#Machine
Optimism is a kind of heart stimulant - the digitalis of failure.
Elbert Hubbard,
American
Writer
#Heart
#Failure
#Optimism
Love, we say, is life; but love without hope and faith is agonizing death.
Elbert Hubbard,
American
Writer
#Life
#Love
#Hope
#Death
#Faith
Life in abundance comes only through great love.
Elbert Hubbard,
American
Writer
#Life
#Love
#Abundance
In order to have friends, you must first be one.
Elbert Hubbard,
American
Writer
#Friends
#First
#Order
Initiative is doing the right things without being told.
Elbert Hubbard,
American
Writer
#Right
#Being
It does not take much strength to do things, but it requires great strength to decide on what to do.
Elbert Hubbard,
American
Writer
#Strength
It is easy to get everything you want, provided you first learn to do without the things you cannot get.
Elbert Hubbard,
American
Writer
#Want
#First
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,
American
Writer
#May
#Cause
#Debate
#Friendship
Genius may have its limitations, but stupidity is not thus handicapped.
Elbert Hubbard,
American
Writer
#May
#Stupidity
#Genius
#Limitations
Know what you want to do, hold the thought firmly, and do every day what should be done, and every sunset will see you that much nearer to your goal.
Elbert Hubbard,
American
Writer
#Want
#Will
#Day
#Thought
#Goal
#Sunset
If you suffer, thank God! It is a sure sign that you are alive.
Elbert Hubbard,
American
Writer
Life is just one damned thing after another.
Elbert Hubbard,
American
Writer
#Life
Positive anything is better than negative nothing.
Elbert Hubbard,
American
Writer
#Nothing
#Positive
#Negative
If you can't answer a man's arguments, all is not lost; you can still call him vile names.
Elbert Hubbard,
American
Writer
#Man
#Arguments
#Names
Fear clogs; faith liberates.
Elbert Hubbard,
American
Writer
#Fear
#Faith
If pleasures are greatest in anticipation, just remember that this is also true of trouble.
Elbert Hubbard,
American
Writer
#Trouble
#Anticipation
I would rather be able to appreciate things I can not have than to have things I am not able to appreciate.
Elbert Hubbard,
American
Writer
It's pretty hard to be efficient without being obnoxious.
Elbert Hubbard,
American
Writer
#Being
#Pretty
There is something that is much more scarce, something finer far, something rarer than ability. It is the ability to recognize ability.
Elbert Hubbard,
American
Writer
#Ability
Our desires always disappoint us; for though we meet with something that gives us satisfaction, yet it never thoroughly answers our expectation.
Elbert Hubbard,
American
Writer
#Satisfaction
#Expectation
#Answers
The reason men oppose progress is not that they hate progress, but that they love inertia.
Elbert Hubbard,
American
Writer
#Love
#Reason
#Men
#Progress
#Hate
The recipe for perpetual ignorance is: Be satisfied with your opinions and content with your knowledge.
Elbert Hubbard,
American
Writer
#Ignorance
#Knowledge
#Opinions
#Content
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,
American
Writer
The supernatural is the natural not yet understood.
Elbert Hubbard,
American
Writer
#Supernatural
The teacher is the one who gets the most out of the lessons, and the true teacher is the learner.
Elbert Hubbard,
American
Writer
The thing we fear we bring to pass.
Elbert Hubbard,
American
Writer
#Fear
The object of teaching a child is to enable him to get along without his teacher.
Elbert Hubbard,
American
Writer
#Teaching
There is no failure except in no longer trying.
Elbert Hubbard,
American
Writer
#Failure
#Trying
The man who knows it can't be done counts the risk, not the reward.
Elbert Hubbard,
American
Writer
#Man
#Risk
#Reward
This will never be a civilized country until we spend more money for books than we do for chewing gum.
Elbert Hubbard,
American
Writer
#Will
#Country
#Money
#Books
To avoid criticism, do nothing, say nothing, and be nothing.
Elbert Hubbard,
American
Writer
#Nothing
#Criticism
We are not punished for our sins, but by them.
Elbert Hubbard,
American
Writer
We are punished by our sins, not for them.
Elbert Hubbard,
American
Writer
We awaken in others the same attitude of mind we hold toward them.
Elbert Hubbard,
American
Writer
#Mind
#Attitude
We work to become, not to acquire.
Elbert Hubbard,
American
Writer
#Work
Where much is expected from an individual, he may rise to the level of events and make the dream come true.
Elbert Hubbard,
American
Writer
#May
#Dream
#Events
Your friend is the man who knows all about you, and still likes you.
Elbert Hubbard,
American
Writer
#Man
#Friend
The world is moving so fast these days that the man who says it can't be done is generally interrupted by someone doing it.
Elbert Hubbard,
American
Writer
#World
#Man
The friend is the man who knows all about you, and still likes you.
Elbert Hubbard,
American
Writer
#Man
#Friend
God will not look you over for medals degrees or diplomas, but for scars.
Elbert Hubbard,
American
Writer
#God
#Will
Pray that success will not come any faster than you are able to endure it.
Elbert Hubbard,
American
Writer
#Success
#Will
Responsibility is the price of freedom.
Elbert Hubbard,
American
Writer
#Freedom
#Responsibility
Reversing your treatment of the man you have wronged is better than asking his forgiveness.
Elbert Hubbard,
American
Writer
#Man
#Treatment
#Forgiveness
Secrets are things we give to others to keep for us.
Elbert Hubbard,
American
Writer
#Secrets
So long as governments set the example of killing their enemies, private individuals will occasionally kill theirs.
Elbert Hubbard,
American
Writer
#Will
#Enemies
#Example
#Killing
The best preparation for good work tomorrow is to do good work today.
Elbert Hubbard,
American
Writer
#Work
#Today
#Preparation
#Tomorrow
The only foes that threaten America are the enemies at home, and these are ignorance, superstition and incompetence.
Elbert Hubbard,
American
Writer
#Home
#Ignorance
#Enemies
#America
#Incompetence
#Superstition
The final proof of greatness lies in being able to endure criticism without resentment.
Elbert Hubbard,
American
Writer
#Being
#Criticism
#Lies
#Greatness
#Proof
#Resentment
Polygamy: An endeavour to get more out of life than there is in it.
Elbert Hubbard,
American
Writer
#Life
The greatest mistake you can make in life is continually fearing that you'll make one.
Elbert Hubbard,
American
Writer
#Life
#Mistake
The happiness of this life depends less on what befalls you than the way in which you take it.
Elbert Hubbard,
American
Writer
#Life
#Happiness
The highest reward that God gives us for good work is the ability to do better work.
Elbert Hubbard,
American
Writer
#God
#Work
#Ability
#Reward
The idea that is not dangerous is not worthy of being called an idea at all.
Elbert Hubbard,
American
Writer
#Being
#Idea
The ineffable joy of forgiving and being forgiven forms an ecstasy that might well arouse the envy of the gods.
Elbert Hubbard,
American
Writer
#Being
#Joy
#Gods
#Envy
#Ecstasy
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,
American
Writer
#Success
#Failure
The love we give away is the only love we keep.
Elbert Hubbard,
American
Writer
#Love
The man who has no problems is out of the game.
Elbert Hubbard,
American
Writer
#Problems
#Man
The church saves sinners, but science seeks to stop their manufacture.
Elbert Hubbard,
American
Writer
#Science
#Church
A woman will doubt everything you say except it be compliments to herself.
Elbert Hubbard,
American
Writer
#Will
#Woman
#Doubt
#Compliments
A conservative is a man who is too cowardly to fight and too fat to run.
Elbert Hubbard,
American
Writer
#Man
#Conservative
#Fight
A failure is a man who has blundered, but is not able to cash in the experience.
Elbert Hubbard,
American
Writer
#Man
#Failure
#Experience
A friend is one who knows you and loves you just the same.
Elbert Hubbard,
American
Writer
#Friend
A little more persistence, a little more effort, and what seemed hopeless failure may turn to glorious success.
Elbert Hubbard,
American
Writer
#Success
#May
#Failure
#Effort
#Persistence
A man is as good as he has to be, and a woman as bad as she dares.
Elbert Hubbard,
American
Writer
#Man
#Woman
A man is not paid for having a head and hands, but for using them.
Elbert Hubbard,
American
Writer
#Man
A retentive memory may be a good thing, but the ability to forget is the true token of greatness.
Elbert Hubbard,
American
Writer
#Forget
#Ability
#May
#Memory
#Greatness
An idea that is not dangerous is unworthy to be called an idea at all.
Elbert Hubbard,
American
Writer
#Idea
#Unworthy
Art is not a thing; it is a way.
Elbert Hubbard,
American
Writer
#Art
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,
American
Writer
#Art
#Science
#Business
Do your work with your whole heart, and you will succeed - there's so little competition.
Elbert Hubbard,
American
Writer
#Work
#Will
#Heart
#Succeed
#Competition
A pessimist? That's a person who has been intimately acquainted with an optimist.
Elbert Hubbard,
American
Writer
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,
American
Writer
#Business
Be pleasant until ten o'clock in the morning and the rest of the day will take care of itself.
Elbert Hubbard,
American
Writer
#Will
#Day
#Rest
#Care
Do not take life too seriously. You will never get out of it alive.
Elbert Hubbard,
American
Writer
#Life
#Will
He who does not understand your silence will probably not understand your words.
Elbert Hubbard,
American
Writer
#Words
#Will
#Silence
Die, v.: To stop sinning suddenly.
Elbert Hubbard,
American
Writer
Every tyrant who has lived has believed in freedom for himself.
Elbert Hubbard,
American
Writer
#Freedom
Christianity supplies a Hell for the people who disagree with you and a Heaven for your friends.
Elbert Hubbard,
American
Writer
#People
#Christianity
#Friends
#Hell
#Heaven
Character is the result of two things: mental attitude and the way we spend our time.
Elbert Hubbard,
American
Writer
#Character
#Time
#Result
#Attitude
Every man is a damn fool for at least five minutes every day; wisdom consists in not exceeding the limit.
Elbert Hubbard,
American
Writer
#Day
#Man
#Wisdom
#Fool