Elbert Hubbard Famous Quotes
A friend is one who knows you and loves you just the same.
Many a man's reputation would not know his character if they met on the street.
The ineffable joy of forgiving and being forgiven forms an ecstasy that might well arouse the envy of the gods.
"To avoid criticism, do nothing, say nothing, and be nothing."
"The reason men oppose progress is not that they hate progress, but that they love inertia."
Every man is a damn fool for at least five minutes every day wisdom consists of not exceeding the limit.
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.
"My father always used to say that when you die, if you've got five real friends, you've had a great life."
"If pleasures are greatest in anticipation, just remember that this is also true of trouble."
"There is something that is much more scarce, something finer far, something rarer than ability. It is the ability to recognize ability."
The artist needs no religion beyond his work.
The love we give away is the only love we keep.
"If you suffer, thank God It is a sure sign that you are alive."
"Religions are many and diverse, but reason and goodness are one."
I would rather be able to appreciate things I can not have than to have things I am not able to appreciate.
The idea that is not dangerous is not worthy of being called an idea at all.
Optimism is a kind of heart stimulant--the digitalis of failure.
One machine can do the work of fifty ordinary men. No machine can do the work of one extraordinary man.
"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"
Never explain--your friends do not need it and your enemies will not believe you anyway.
Life is just one damned thing after another.
A conservative is a man who is too cowardly to fight and too fat to run.
The greatest mistake you can make in life is to be continually fearing you will make one.
The teacher is one who makes two ideas grow where only one grew before.
"We are punished by our sins, not for them."
"Genius may have its limitations, but stupidity is not thus handicapped."
"He who has achieved success has worked well, laughed often and loved much."
"A man is not paid for having a head and hands, but for using them."
No one ever gets far unless he accomplishes the impossible at least once a day.
Don't take life too seriously. You'll never get out of it alive.
Every man should have a college education in order to show him how little the thing is really worth.
Responsibilities gravitate to the person who can shoulder them.
Enthusiasm is the great hill-climber.
"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."
An ounce of loyalty is worth a pound of cleverness.
Get happiness out of your work or you may never know what happiness is.
The recipe for perpetual ignorance is be satisfied with your opinions and content with your knowledge.
Elbert Hubbard Quotations
"Next to knowing when to seize an opportunity, the most important thing in life is to know when to forgo an advantage."
Benjamin Disraeli
Bluntness is a virtue.
Allison Ling
"Fear not that thy life shall come to an end, But rather that it shall never have a beginning."
John Henry Newman
"Life is too short to spend your precious time trying to convince a person who wants to live in gloom and doom otherwise. Give lifting that person your best shot, but don't hang around long enough for his or her bad attitude to pull you down. Instead, surround yourself with optimistic people."
Zig Ziglar
"Yesterday is but today's memory, and tomorrow is today's dream."
Kahlil Gibran
Hanlon's RazorNever attribute to malice that which can be adequately explained by stupidity.
Anon
"We do not attract what we want, But what we are."
James Allen
People with integrity do what they say they are going to do. Others have excuses.
Dr Laura Schlessinger
I am not ashamed to confess that I am ignorant of what I do not know.
Marcus Tullius Cicero
"Now is the winter of our discontent Made glorious summer by this sun of York, And all the clouds that loured upon our house In the deep bosom of the ocean buried. Now are our brows bound with victorious wreaths, Our bruised arms hung up for monuments, Our stern alarums changed to merry meetings, Our dreadful marches to delightful measures. Grim-visaged war hath smoothed his wrinkled front And now, instead of mounting barbed steeds To fright the souls of fearful adversaries, He capers nimbly in a lady's chamber To the lascivious pleasing of a lute. But I, that am not shaped for sportive tricks, Nor made to court an amorous looking-glass I, that am rudely stamped, and want love's majesty To strut before a wanton ambling nymph I, that am curtailed of this fair proportion, Cheated of feature by dissembling nature, Deformed, unfinished, sent before my time Into this breathing world, scarce half made up, And that so lamely and unfashionable That dogs bark at me as I halt by them,-- Why, I, in this weak piping time of peace, Have no delight to pass away the time, Unless to spy my shadow in the sun."
William Shakespeare