Elbert Hubbard

The friend is the man who knows all about you, and still likes you.

No one ever gets far unless he accomplishes the impossible at least once a 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.

He has achieved success who has worked well, laughed often, and loved much.

The valuable person in any business is the individual who can and will cooperate with others.

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

Punishment - The justice that the guilty deal out to those that are caught.

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

Christianity supplies a Hell for the people who disagree with you and a Heaven for your friends.

There is something that is much more scarce, something finer far, something rarer than ability. It is the ability to recognize ability.

Love, we say, is life; but love without hope and faith is agonizing death.

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.

Prophecy - To observe that which has passed, and guess it will happen again.

Polygamy: An endeavour to get more out of life than there is in it.

To avoid criticism, do nothing, say nothing, and be nothing.

Life in abundance comes only through great love.

Many people fail in life not for lack of ability or brains or even courage but simply because they have never organized their energies around a goal.

Art is not a thing, it is a way.

We find what we expect to find and we receive what we ask for.

Fear is the thought of admitted inferiority.

Grammar is the grave of letters.

Be pleasant until ten o'clock in the morning and the rest of the day will take care of itself.

Do not take life too seriously. You will never get out of it alive.

The brain is a commodity used to fertilize ideas.

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

No man ever did or can do a great work alone.

It is easy to get everything you want, provided you first learn to do without the things you cannot get.

If you have health you probably will be happy and if you have health and happiness you have the wealth you need even if it is not all you want.

Everything comes too late for those who only wait.

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.

No man needs a vacation so much as the man who has just had one.

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

Tragedy and comedy are simply questions of value; a little misfit in life makes us laugh; a great one is tragedy and cause for expression of grief.

Progress comes from the intelligent use of experience.

Every man is a damn fool for at least five minutes every day; wisdom consists in not exceeding the limit.

The cure for grief is motion.

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

A woman will doubt everything you say except it be compliments to herself.

Never get married in college its hard to get a start if a prospective employer finds youve already made one mistake.

Thoroughness characterizes all successful men. Genius is the art of taking infinite pains. All great achievement has been characterized by extreme care, infinite painstaking, even to the minutest detail.

The teacher is the one who gets the most out of the lessons, and the true teacher is the learner.

The idea that is not dangerous is not worthy of being called an idea at all.

Optimism is a kind of heart stimulant - the digitalis of failure.

He who influences the thoughts of his times, influences all the times that follow. He has made his impress on eternity.

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

Optimism is a kind of heart stimulant ? the digitalis of failure.

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

Perfume: any smell that is used to drown a worse one.

If put to the pinch, an ounce of loyalty is worth a pound of cleverness.

Fortitude That quality of mind which does not care what happens so long as it does not happen to us.

Dont make excuses make good.

Rivalry is the life of trade, and the death of the trader.

The man who knows it can't be done counts the risk, not the reward.

Work to become, not to acquire.

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

In order to have friends, you must first be one.

If pleasures are greatest in anticipation just remember that this is also true of trouble.

Responsibility is the price of freedom.

The happiness of this life depends less on what befalls you than the way in which you take it.

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

One's thirtieth birthday and one's seventieth are days that press their message home with iron hand.

The greatest mistake you can make in life is to continually fear that you will make one.

All wages are based primarily on productive power. Anything else would be charity.

Many a man's reputation would not know his character if they met on the street.

An ounce of performance is worth more than a pound of preachment.

There is no failure except in no longer trying.

Fences are made for those who cannot fly.

Prison is a socialist paradise where equality prevails, everything is supplied, and competition is eliminated.

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

God will not look you over for medals degrees or diplomas but for scars.

A teacher is one who makes two ideas grow where only one grew before.

Art is not a thing; it is a way.

College football is a sport that bears the same relation to education that bullfighting does to agriculture.

He who does not understand your silence will probably not understand your words.

The essence of marriage is companionship, and the woman you face across the coffee urn every morning for ninety-nine years must be both able to appreciate your jokes and to sympathize with your aspirations.

We work to become, not to acquire.

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

Never get married in college; it's hard to get a start if a prospective employer finds you've already made one mistake.

Dignity is a mask we wear to hide our ignorance.

Play needs direction as well as work.

The stronger a man is, the more gentle he can afford to be

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.

Man's greatest blunder has been in trying to make peace with the skies instead of making peace with his neighbors.

Positive Anything Is Better Than Negative Nothing.

Strength and strengths will are the supreme ethic. All else are dreams from hospital beds the sly crawling goodness of sneaking souls.

Initiative is doing the right things without being told.

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

Pray that success will not come any faster than you are able to endure it.

No one gets very far unless he accomplishes the impossible at least once a day.

The church saves sinners, but science seeks to stop their manufacture.

Your friend is the man who knows all about you and still likes you.

Righteous indignation your own wrath as opposed to the shocking bad temper of others.

Dogma is a lie reiterated and authoritatively injected into the mind of one or more persons who believe that they believe what someone else believes.

The supernatural is the natural not yet understood.

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

Habit The great economizer of energy.

Fear clogs; faith liberates.

He who influences the thought of his times influences the times that follow.

Life is just one damned thing after another.

Academic education is the act of memorizing things read in books, and things told by college professors who got their education mostly by memorizing things read in books.