Elbert Hubbard > Quotes

“A friend is someone who knows all about you and still loves you.”
― Elbert Hubbard

“God will not look you over for medals, degrees or diplomas but for scars.”
― Elbert Hubbard

“Do not take life too seriously. You will never get out of it alive.”
― Elbert Hubbard

“The greatest mistake you can make in life is to be continually fearing you will make one.”
― Elbert Hubbard

“Never explain―your friends do not need it and your enemies will not believe you anyway.”
― Elbert Hubbard

“He who does not understand your silence will probably not understand your words.”
― Elbert Hubbard

“The best way to prepare for life is to begin to live.”
― Elbert Hubbard

“The love we give away is the only love we keep.”
― Elbert Hubbard

“Life is just one damned thing after another.”
― Elbert Hubbard, Philistine: A Periodical of Protest, December 1895 to May 1896

“I believe in the hands that work, in the brains that think, and in the hearts that love...I believe in sunshine, fresh air, friendship, calm sleep, beautiful thoughts.”
― Elbert Hubbard

“True life lies in laughter, love and work.”
― Elbert Hubbard

“Genius may have its limitations, but stupidity is not thus handicapped.”
― 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.”
― Elbert Hubbard

“The object of teaching a child is to enable him to get along without a teacher.”
― Elbert Hubbard

“The line between failure and success is so fine. . . that we are often on the line and do not know it.”
― Elbert Hubbard

“To avoid criticism, do nothing, say nothing, be nothing.”
― Elbert Hubbard

“Happiness is a habit—cultivate it.”
― Elbert Hubbard

“It does not take much strength to do things, but it requires a great deal of strength to decide what to do.”
― Elbert Hubbard

“Self-discipline is the ability to make yourself do what you should do, when you should do it, whether you feel like it or not.”
― Elbert Hubbard

“No man needs a vacation so much as the man who has just had one.”
― Elbert Hubbard

“If men could only know each other, they would neither idolize nor hate.”
― Elbert Hubbard

“This will never be a civilized country until we expend more money for books than we do for chewing gum.”
― Elbert Hubbard

“The final proof of greatness lies in being able to endure criticism without resentment.”
― Elbert Hubbard

“Every man is a damn fool for at least five minutes every day; wisdom consists in not exceeding the limit.”
― Elbert Hubbard

“One machine can do the work of fifty ordinary men. No machine can do the work of one extraordinary man. ”
― Elbert Hubbard

“There is no failure except in no longer trying.”
― Elbert Hubbard

“It is easy to get everything you want, provided you first learn to do without the things you cannot get.”
― Elbert Hubbard

“I do not read a book; I hold a conversation with the author.”
― Elbert Hubbard

“Art is not a thing; it is a way. ”
― Elbert Hubbard

“So long as governments set the example of killing their enemies, private individuals will occasionally kill theirs.”
― Elbert Hubbard, Elbert Hubbard's Scrap Book

“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? ”
― Elbert Hubbard

“If you can not answer a man's argument, all is not lost; you can still call him vile names.”
― Elbert Hubbard

“A conservative is a man who is too cowardly to fight and too fat to run.”
― Elbert Hubbard

“Many a man's reputation would not know his character if they met on the street. ”
― Elbert Hubbard

“An ounce of loyalty is worth a pound of cleverness.”
― Elbert Hubbard

“The supernatural is the natural not yet understood.”
― Elbert Hubbard

“The recipe for perpetual ignorance is: Be satisfied with your opinions and content with your knowledge.”
― Elbert Hubbard

“Football: A sport that bears the same relation to education that bullfighting does to agriculture.”
― Elbert Hubbard

“Laughter is higher than all pain.”
― Elbert Hubbard

“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.”
― Elbert Hubbard

“Folks who never do any more than they get paid for, never get paid for any more than they do”
― Elbert Hubbard

“It's a fine thing to have ability, but the ability to discover ability in others is the true test.”
― Elbert Hubbard

“I would rather be able to appreciate things I cannot have than to have things I am not able to appreciate.”
― Elbert Hubbard

“We will not be dictated to by men with less intelligence, energy, initiative and ambition than we ourselves possess. ”
― Elbert Hubbard

“Parties who want milk should not seat themselves on a stool in the middle of the field in hope that the cow will back up to them.”
― Elbert Hubbard

“A retentive memory may be a good thing, but the ability to forget is the true token of greatness.”
― Elbert Hubbard

“We awaken in others the same attitude of mind we hold toward them.”
― Elbert Hubbard

“Nothing is permanent but change.”
― Elbert Hubbard

“A friend is one who knows you and loves you just the same.”
― Elbert Hubbard

“The friend is the man who knows all about you, and still likes you.”
― Elbert Hubbard