Elbert Hubbard Quotes

Positive anything is better than negative nothing.

A friend is someone who knows all about you and still loves you.

Fear clogs faith liberates.

I believe in the hands that work, in the brains that think, and in the hearts that love...I believe in sunshine, fresh air, friendship, calm sleep, beautiful thoughts.

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 the goal.

The final proof of greatness lies in being able to endure criticism without resentment.

Young women with ambitions should be very crafty and cautious, lest mayhap they be caught in the soft, silken mesh of a happy marriage, and go down to oblivion, dead to the world.

Souls are made of dawn-stuff and starshine.

We never ask God to forgive anybody except when we haven't.

True life lies in laughter, love and work.

Little minds are interested in the extraordinary great minds in the commonplace.

This will never be a civilized country until we expend more money for books than we do for chewing gum.

The line between failure and success is so fine. . . that we are often on the line and do not know it.

The greatest mistake you can make in life is to be continually fearing you will make one.

If you want a work well done select a busy man: the other kind has no time.

The best way to prepare for life is to begin to live.

Some men succeed by what they know some by what they do and a few by what they are.

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.

Life in abundance comes only through great love.

Writers seldom write the things they think. They simply write the things they think other folks think they think.