Famous Elbert Hubbard Quotations

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"He has achieved success who has worked well, laughed often, and loved much."
by Elbert Hubbard
"The recipe for perpetual ignorance is: Be satisfied with your opinions and content with your knowledge."
by Elbert Hubbard
"To avoid criticism, do nothing, say nothing, and be nothing."
by Elbert Hubbard
"The highest reward that God gives us for good work is the ability to do better work."
by Elbert Hubbard
"Get happiness out of your work or you may never know what happiness is."
by Elbert Hubbard
"Genius may have its limitations, but stupidity is not thus handicapped."
by Elbert Hubbard
"He who has achieved success has worked well, laughed often and loved much."
by Elbert Hubbard
"He who does not understand your silence will probably not understand your words."
by Elbert Hubbard
"Secrets are things we give to others to keep for us."
by Elbert Hubbard
"Positive anything is better than negative nothing."
by Elbert Hubbard
"Life is just one damned thing after another."
by Elbert Hubbard
"If pleasures are greatest in anticipation, just remember that this is also true of trouble."
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?"
by Elbert Hubbard
"Gossip is only the lack of a worthy memory."
by Elbert Hubbard
"Art is the beautiful way of doing things. Science is the effective way of doing things. Business is the economic way of doing things."
by Elbert Hubbard
"A friend is one who knows you and loves you just the same."
by Elbert Hubbard
"No matter what you've done for yourself or for humanity, if you can't look back on having given love and attention to your own family, what have you really accomplished"
by Elbert Hubbard
"The world is moving so fast these days that the man who says it can't be done is generally interrupted by someone doing it."
by Elbert Hubbard
"Your friend is the man who knows all about you, and still likes you."
by Elbert Hubbard
"Our desires always disappoint us; for though we meet with something that gives us satisfaction, yet it never thoroughly answers our expectation."
by Elbert Hubbard
"A committee is a thing which takes a week to do what one good man can do in an hour."
by Elbert Hubbard
"A conservative is a man who is too cowardly to fight and too fat to run."
by Elbert Hubbard
"A friend is someone who knows all about you and loves you just the same."
by Elbert Hubbard
"A little more persistence, a little more effort, and what seemed hopeless failure may turn to glorious success."
by Elbert Hubbard
"A legal or religious ceremony by which two persons of the opposite sex solemnly agree to harass and spy on each other... until death do them join."
by Elbert Hubbard
"A man is not paid for having a head and hands, but for using them."
by Elbert Hubbard
"A man is as good as he has to be, and a woman as bad as she dares."
by Elbert Hubbard
"A pessimist? That's a person who has been intimately acquainted with an optimist."
by Elbert Hubbard
"A pessimist is a man who has been compelled to live with an optimist."
by Elbert Hubbard
"A retentive memory may be a good thing, but the ability to forget is the true token of greatness."
by Elbert Hubbard
"A woman will doubt everything you say except it be compliments to herself."
by Elbert Hubbard
"An idea that is not dangerous is unworthy to be called an idea at all."
by Elbert Hubbard
"An ounce of loyalty is worth a pound of cleverness."
by Elbert Hubbard
"An ounce of loyalty is worth a pound of cleverness"
by Elbert Hubbard
"Be pleasant until ten o'clock in the morning and the rest of the day will take care of itself."
by Elbert Hubbard
"Character is the result of two things: mental attitude and the way we spend our time."
by Elbert Hubbard
"Christianity supplies a Hell for the people who disagree with you and a Heaven for your friends."
by Elbert Hubbard
"Death: To stop sinning suddenly."
by Elbert Hubbard
"Do your work with your whole heart, and you will succeed - there's so little competition."
by Elbert Hubbard
"Do not take life too seriously; you will never get out of it alive."
by Elbert Hubbard
"Do not take life too seriously. You will never get out of it alive."
by Elbert Hubbard
"Don't take life too seriously; you'll never get out of it alive"
by Elbert Hubbard
"Don't take life too seriously. You'll never get out of it alive."
by Elbert Hubbard
"Don't take life too seriously, you'll never get out of it alive."
by Elbert Hubbard
"Editor: a person employed on a newspaper whose business it is to seperate the wheat from the chaff, and to see that the chaff is printed."
by Elbert Hubbard
"Editor a person employed by a newspaper, whose business it is to separate the wheat from the chaff, and to see that the chaff is printed."
by Elbert Hubbard
"Enthusiasm is the great hill-climber."
by Elbert Hubbard
"Enthusiasm is the great hill-climber"
by Elbert Hubbard
"Every man should have a college education in order to show him how little the thing is really worth."
by Elbert Hubbard
"Every man is a fool at least five minutes every day; widom consists of not exceeding the limit."
by Elbert Hubbard
"Every man is a damn fool for at least five minutes every day wisdom consists of not exceeding the limit."
by Elbert Hubbard
"Every tyrant who has lived has believed in freedom for himself."
by Elbert Hubbard
"Fear is the thought of admitted inferiority."
by Elbert Hubbard
"Fear clogs; faith liberates."
by Elbert Hubbard
"Folks who never do any more than they are paid for, never get paid more than they do."
by Elbert Hubbard
"Friendship, like credit, is highest when it is not used."
by Elbert Hubbard
"Genius may have its limitations, but stupidity is not thus handicapped"
by Elbert Hubbard
"Get happiness out of your work or you may never know what happiness is"
by Elbert Hubbard
"Genius is only the power of making continuous efforts"
by Elbert Hubbard
"God will not look you over for medals, degrees or diplomas, but for scars."
by Elbert Hubbard
"God will not look you over for medals degrees or diplomas, but for scars."
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."
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."
by Elbert Hubbard
"If men will not act for themselves, what will they do when the benefit of their effort is for all? by"
by Elbert Hubbard
"If you can't answer a man's arguments, all is not lost; you can still call him vile names."
by Elbert Hubbard
"If you suffer, thank God! It is a sure sign that you are alive."
by Elbert Hubbard
"If you suffer, thank God! -- it is a sure sign that you are alive."
by Elbert Hubbard
"If you suffer, thank God It is a sure sign that you are alive."
by Elbert Hubbard
"In order to have friends, you must first be one."
by Elbert Hubbard
"In these days, a man who says a thing cannot be done is quite apt to be interrupted by some idiot doing it."
by Elbert Hubbard
"Initiative is doing the right things without being told."
by Elbert Hubbard
"It does not take much strength to do things, but it requires great strength to decide on what to do."
by Elbert Hubbard
"It is easy to get everything you want, provided you first learn to do without the things you cannot get."
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."
by Elbert Hubbard
"It's pretty hard to be efficient without being obnoxious."
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."
by Elbert Hubbard
"Laws that do not embody public opinion can never be enforced."
by Elbert Hubbard
"Life is just one damned thing after another"
by Elbert Hubbard
"Little minds are interested in the extraordinary; great minds in the commonplace."
by Elbert Hubbard
"Logic: an instrument used for bolstering a prejudice."
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."
by Elbert Hubbard
"Love, we say, is life; but love without hope and faith is agonizing death."
by Elbert Hubbard
"Many a man's reputation would not know his character if they met on the street."
by Elbert Hubbard
"Men are punished by their sins, not for them."
by Elbert Hubbard
"Men are only as great as they are kind."
by Elbert Hubbard
"My father always used to say that when you die, if you've got five real friends, you've had a great life."
by Elbert Hubbard
"Never explain. Your friends do not need it and your enemies will not believe you anyway."
by Elbert Hubbard
"Never explain--your friends do not need it and your enemies will not believe you anyway."
by Elbert Hubbard
"Never explain--your friends do not need it and your enemies will not believe you anyway"
by Elbert Hubbard
"Never explain - your friends do not need it and your enemies will not believe you anyway."
by Elbert Hubbard
"No one ever gets far unless he accomplishes the impossible at least once a day."
by Elbert Hubbard
"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."
by Elbert Hubbard
"One machine can do the work of fifty ordinary men. No machine can do the work of one extraordinary man."
by Elbert Hubbard
"One machine can do the work of fifty ordinary men. No machine can do the work of one extraordinary man"
by Elbert Hubbard
"Optimism is a kind of heart stimulant--the digitalis of failure."
by Elbert Hubbard
"Optimism is a kind of heart stimulant - the digitalis of failure."
by Elbert Hubbard
"Positive anything is better than negative nothing"
by Elbert Hubbard
"Polygamy: An endeavour to get more out of life than there is in it."
by Elbert Hubbard
"Progress comes from the intelligent use of experience"
by Elbert Hubbard
"Religions are many and diverse, but reason and goodness are one."
by Elbert Hubbard


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