Famous Quotes

Quotes by Elbert Hubbard

• A failure is a man who has blundered, but is not able to cash in the experience.
• A friend is one who knows you and loves you just the same.
• A little more persistence, a little more effort, and what seemed hopeless failure may turn to glorious success.
• A man is as good as he has to be, and a woman as bad as she dares.
• A retentive memory may be a good thing, but the ability to forget is the true token of greatness.
• Art is not a thing it is a way.
• Art is the beautiful way of doing things. Science is the effective way of doing things. Business is the economic way of doing things.
• Be pleasant until ten o'clock in the morning and the rest of the day will take care of itself.
• Character is the result of two things: mental attitude and the way we spend our time.
• Die, v.: To stop sinning suddenly.
• Do not take life too seriously. You will never get out of it alive.
• Do your work with your whole heart, and you will succeed - there's so little competition.
• 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.
• Every man is a damn fool for at least five minutes every day wisdom consists in not exceeding the limit.
• Every tyrant who has lived has believed in freedom for himself.
• Fear clogs faith liberates.
• Fear is the thought of admitted inferiority.
• Friendship, like credit, is highest when it is not used.
• God will not look you over for medals degrees or diplomas, but for scars.
• He has achieved success who has worked well, laughed often, and loved much.
• 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.
• If you suffer, thank God! It is a sure sign that you are alive.
• It does not take much strength to do things, but it requires great strength to decide on what to do.
• 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.
• Life in abundance comes only through great love.
• Life is just one damned thing after another.
• Little minds are interested in the extraordinary great minds in the commonplace.
• Live truth instead of professing it.
• 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.
• Love, we say, is life but love without hope and faith is agonizing death.