Famous Quotes

Quotes by Elbert Hubbard

• Men are only as great as they are kind.
• Never explain - your friends do not need it and your enemies will not believe you anyway.
• Never get married in college it's hard to get a start if a prospective employer finds you've already made one mistake.
• 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.
• One machine can do the work of fifty ordinary men. No machine can do the work of one extraordinary man.
• Optimism is a kind of heart stimulant - the digitalis of failure.
• Polygamy: An endeavour to get more out of life than there is in it.
• Positive anything is better than negative nothing.
• Pray that success will not come any faster than you are able to endure it.
• Responsibility is the price of freedom.
• 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 church saves sinners, but science seeks to stop their manufacture.
• The friend is the man who knows all about you, and still likes you.
• The greatest mistake you can make in life is continually fearing that you'll make one.
• The happiness of this life depends less on what befalls you than the way in which you take it.
• The highest reward that God gives us for good work is the ability to do better work.
• The ineffable joy of forgiving and being forgiven forms an ecstasy that might well arouse the envy of the gods.
• The line between failure and success is so fine that we scarcely know when we pass it: so fine that we are often on the line and do not know it.
• The love we give away is the only love we keep.
• The object of teaching a child is to enable him to get along without his teacher.
• The only foes that threaten America are the enemies at home, and these are ignorance, superstition and incompetence.
• The reason men oppose progress is not that they hate progress, but that they love inertia.
• The recipe for perpetual ignorance is: Be satisfied with your opinions and content with your knowledge.
• 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.
• The teacher is the one who gets the most out of the lessons, and the true teacher is the learner.
• The thing we fear we bring to pass.
• There is no failure except in no longer trying.
• This will never be a civilized country until we spend more money for books than we do for chewing gum.
• We are punished by our sins, not for them.
• We awaken in others the same attitude of mind we hold toward them.
• We work to become, not to acquire.