Elbert Hubbard Quotes

Men are only as great as they are kind... view

By: Elbert Hubbard

Little minds are interested in the extraordinary.. view

By: Elbert Hubbard

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

By: Elbert Hubbard

Fear is the thought of admitted inferiority... view

By: Elbert Hubbard

Live truth instead of professing it... view

By: Elbert Hubbard

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

By: Elbert Hubbard

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

By: Elbert Hubbard

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

By: Elbert Hubbard

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... view

By: Elbert Hubbard

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

By: Elbert Hubbard

Never get married in college.. view

By: Elbert Hubbard

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

By: Elbert Hubbard

Often we can help each other most by leaving each other alone.. view

By: Elbert Hubbard

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

By: Elbert Hubbard

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

By: Elbert Hubbard

Love, we say, is life.. view

By: Elbert Hubbard

Life in abundance comes only through great love... view

By: Elbert Hubbard

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

By: Elbert Hubbard

Initiative is doing the right things without being told... view

By: Elbert Hubbard

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

By: Elbert Hubbard

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

By: Elbert Hubbard

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... view

By: Elbert Hubbard

Genius may have its limitations, but stupidity is not thus handicapped... view

By: Elbert Hubbard

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... view

By: Elbert Hubbard

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

By: Elbert Hubbard

Life is just one damned thing after another... view

By: Elbert Hubbard

Positive anything is better than negative nothing... view

By: Elbert Hubbard

If you can't answer a man's arguments, all is not lost.. view

By: Elbert Hubbard

Fear clogs.. view

By: Elbert Hubbard

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

By: Elbert Hubbard

I would rather be able to appreciate things I can not have than to have things I am not able to appreciate... view

By: Elbert Hubbard

It's pretty hard to be efficient without being obnoxious... view

By: Elbert Hubbard

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

By: Elbert Hubbard

Our desires always disappoint us.. view

By: Elbert Hubbard

The reason men oppose progress is not that they hate progress, but that they love inertia... view

By: Elbert Hubbard

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

By: Elbert Hubbard

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... view

By: Elbert Hubbard

The supernatural is the natural not yet understood... view

By: Elbert Hubbard

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

By: Elbert Hubbard

The thing we fear we bring to pass... view

By: Elbert Hubbard

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

By: Elbert Hubbard

There is no failure except in no longer trying... view

By: Elbert Hubbard