Elbert Hubbard Quotes

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

As a career the business of an orthodox preacher is about as successful as that of a celluloid dog ...

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

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

Respectability is the dickey on the bosom of civilization.

Friendship like credit is highest where it is not used.

Victory - a matter of staying power.

If you suffer thank God! It is a sure sign that you are alive.

How many a man has thrown up his hands at a time when a little more effort, a little more patience w...

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

The path of civilization is paved with tin cans.

Every tyrant who has lived has believed in freedom for himself.

Live truth instead of professing it.

True life lies in laughter, love and work.

Be yourself and think for yourself and while your conclusions may not be infallible they will be n...

Love grows by giving. The love we give away is the only love we keep. The only way to retain love is...

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

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

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

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

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

Art is not a thing it is a way.

The line between failure and success is so fine that we scarcely know when we pass it so fine that ...

There is no devil but fear.

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

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

The love we give away is the only love we keep.

The love we give away is the only one we keep.

An editor - a person employed on a newspaper whose business it is to separate the wheat from the ch...

I wish to live without hate, whim, jealousy, envy, and fear. I wish to be simple, honest, frank, nat...

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

The man who is anybody and who does anything is surely going to be criticized vilified and misunde...

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

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

Die, v.: To stop sinning suddenly.

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

The recipe for perpetual ignorance is: Be satisfied with your opinions and content with your knowled...

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

Life without absorbing occupation is hell.

The difference in men does not lie in the size of their hands nor in the perfection of their bodies...

Fear clogs faith liberates.

The line between failure and success is so fine that we scarcely know when we pass it: so fine that ...

The past is one evil less and one memory more.

Positive anything is better than negative nothing.

There is more sophistication and less sense in New York than anywhere else on the globe.

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

Science is simply the classification of the common knowledge of the common people. It is bringing to...

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

If men could only know each other, they would neither idolize nor hate.

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

The thing we fear we bring to pass.

I believe in the hands that work, in the brains that think, and in the hearts that love...I believe ...

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

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

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

A school should not be a preparation for life. A school should be life.

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

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

It may happen sometimes that a long debate becomes the cause of a longer friendship. Commonly, those...

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

We work to become, not to acquire.

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

The world is moving so fast these days that the man who says it can't be done is generally interrupt...

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

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

To escape criticism - do nothing say nothing be nothing.

The sculptor produces the beautiful statue by chipping away such parts of the marble block as are no...

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

To have a full stomach and fixed income are no small things .

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

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

If you suffer, thank God! It is a sure sign that you are alive.

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

Know what you want to do hold the thought firmly and do every day what should be done and every s...

Often we can help each other most by leaving each other alone at other times we need the hand-grasp...

Charity begins at home and usually stays there.

We are punished by our sins, not for them.

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

Responsibility is the price of freedom.

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

So long as governments set the example of killing their enemies, private individuals will occasional...

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

Men are punished by their sins, not for them.

Young women with ambitions should be very crafty and cautious, lest mayhap they be caught in the sof...

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

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

Character is the result of two things: mental attitude and the way we spend our time.

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

There is no failure except in no longer trying.

Art is the beautiful way of doing things. Science is the effective way of doing things. Business is ...

Business, to be successful, must be based on science, for demand and supply are matters of mathemati...

Don't lose faith in humanity: think of all the people in the United States who have never played you...

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

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.

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

I would rather be able to appreciate things I cannot have than to have things I am not able to appre...

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

Know what you want to do, hold the thought firmly, and do every day what should be done, and every s...

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

The only foes that threaten America are the enemies at home, and these are ignorance, superstition a...