Words matter. These are the best Elbert Hubbard Quotes, and they’re great for sharing with your friends.
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.
Do not take life too seriously. You will never get out of it alive.
Secrets are things we give to others to keep for us.
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.
Polygamy: An endeavour to get more out of life than there is in it.
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.
The church saves sinners, but science seeks to stop their manufacture.
The object of teaching a child is to enable him to get along without his teacher.
The ineffable joy of forgiving and being forgiven forms an ecstasy that might well arouse the envy of the gods.
A woman will doubt everything you say except it be compliments to herself.
Art is not a thing; it is a way.
Optimism is a kind of heart stimulant – the digitalis of failure.
Do your work with your whole heart, and you will succeed – there’s so little competition.
Little minds are interested in the extraordinary; great minds in the commonplace.
The only foes that threaten America are the enemies at home, and these are ignorance, superstition and incompetence.
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.
Many a man’s reputation would not know his character if they met on the street.
A retentive memory may be a good thing, but the ability to forget is the true token of greatness.
There is something that is much more scarce, something finer far, something rarer than ability. It is the ability to recognize ability.
Men are only as great as they are kind.
One machine can do the work of fifty ordinary men. No machine can do the work of one extraordinary man.
The greatest mistake you can make in life is continually fearing that you’ll make one.
He has achieved success who has worked well, laughed often, and loved much.
Never get married in college; it’s hard to get a start if a prospective employer finds you’ve already made one mistake.
Christianity supplies a Hell for the people who disagree with you and a Heaven for your friends.
Character is the result of two things: mental attitude and the way we spend our time.
We work to become, not to acquire.
We are not punished for our sins, but by them.
Every tyrant who has lived has believed in freedom for himself.
Fear clogs; faith liberates.
If pleasures are greatest in anticipation, just remember that this is also true of trouble.
Die, v.: To stop sinning suddenly.
Where much is expected from an individual, he may rise to the level of events and make the dream come true.
A failure is a man who has blundered, but is not able to cash in the experience.
In order to have friends, you must first be one.
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.
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.
Live truth instead of professing it.
Friendship, like credit, is highest when it is not used.
Responsibility is the price of freedom.
Fear is the thought of admitted inferiority.
Every man is a damn fool for at least five minutes every day; wisdom consists in not exceeding the limit.
Genius may have its limitations, but stupidity is not thus handicapped.
Initiative is doing the right things without being told.
