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.

We awaken in others the same attitude of mind we hold toward them.

Constant effort and frequent mistakes are the stepping stones to genius.

Fear is the thought of admitted inferiority.

We work to become, not to acquire.

A pessimist is one who has been compelled to live with an optimist.

Pessimism is only the name that men of weak nerves give to wisdom.

One machine can do the work of fifty ordinary men. No machine can do the work of one extraordinary man.

We work to become not to acquire.

Whom the gods love die young no matter how long they live.

Reversing your treatment of the man you have wronged is better than asking his forgiveness.

The best preparation for good work tomorrow is to do good work today.

The object of teaching a child is to enable him to get along without his teacher.

Life without absorbing occupation is hell.

Get happiness out of your work or you may never know what happiness is.

Do your work with your whole heart, and you will succeed - there's so little competition.

Where much is expected from an individual he may rise to the level of events and make the dream come true.

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.

A man is as good as he has to be, and a woman as bad as she dares.

Friendship, like credit, is highest when it is not used.

Never explain―your friends do not need it and your enemies will not believe you anyway.

I rather like the world. The flesh is pleasing and the Devil does not trouble me.

Friendship like credit is highest where it is not used.

Live truth instead of professing it.

A little more persistence, a little more effort, and what seemed hopeless failure may turn to glorious success.

A friend is someone who knows all about you and loves you just the same.

A retentive memory may be a good thing, but the ability to forget is the true token of greatness.

A failure is a man who has blundered, but is not able to cash in the experience.

It does not take much strength to do things, but it requires great strength to decide on what to do.

Friend: One who knows all about you and loves you just the same.

Mystic: a person who is puzzled before the obvious but who understands the non-existent.