Quotes By Elbert Hubbard

The man who has no problems is out of the game.

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

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.

Live truth instead of professing it.

Life is just one damned thing after another.

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

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

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

The happiness of this life depends less on what befalls you than the way in which you take it.

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

The ineffable joy of forgiving and being forgiven forms an ecstasy that might well arouse the envy of the gods.

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

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

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.

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

Art is not a thing; it is a way.

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.

We are punished by our sins, not for them.

We awaken in others the same attitude of mind we hold toward them.

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

A woman will doubt everything you say except it be compliments to herself.

We are not punished for our sins, but by them.

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

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

Secrets are things we give to others to keep for us.

Fear clogs; faith liberates.

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

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

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

There is no failure except in no longer trying.