Elbert Hubbard Quotes

Positive anything is better than negative nothing.

A friend is someone who knows all about you and still loves you.

Do not take life too seriously. You will never get out of it alive.

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.

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.

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

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

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

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

He who does not understand your silence will probably not understand your words.

Where parents do too much for their children, the children will not do much for themselves.

Responsibility is the price of freedom.

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.

Life is just one damned thing after another.

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

Know what you want to do, hold the thought firmly, and do every day what should be done, and every sunset will see you that much nearer to your goal.

Many people fail in life, not for lack of ability or brains or even courage but simply because they have never organized their energies around a goal.

A little more persistence, a little more effort, and what seemed hopeless failure may turn to glorious success.

There is no failure except in no longer trying.

Heaven: The Coney Island of the Christian imagination.

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.

As a career, the business of an orthodox preacher is about as successful as that of a celluloid dog chasing an asbestos cat through hell.

Never get married in college; it's hard to get a start if a prospective employer finds you've already made one mistake.

Christianity supplies a Hell for the people who disagree with you and a Heaven for your friends.

If you have health, you probably will be happy, and if you have health and happiness, you have all the wealth you need, even if it is not all you want.

The cheerful loser is the winner.

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

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

I believe the only way we can reach the Kingdom of Heaven is to have the Kingdom of Heaven in our hearts.

Genius may have its limitations, but stupidity is not thus handicapped.

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.

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

God will not look you over for medals degrees or diplomas, but for scars.

Happiness is a habit—cultivate it.

We work to become, not to acquire.

If it was woman who put man out of Paradise, it is still woman, and woman only, who can lead him back.

Football: A sport that bears the same relation to education that bullfighting does to agriculture.

When you grow suspicious of a person and begin a system of espionage upon him, your punishment will be that you will find your suspicions true.

Men are only as great as they are kind.

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.

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

We are punished by our sins, not for them.

A man is not paid for having a head and hands, but for using them.

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

Art is not a thing; it is a way.

Folks who never do any more than they get paid for, never get paid for any more than they do

You can lead a boy to college, but you cannot make him think.

It is the weak man who urges compromise - never the strong man.

The man who craves disciples and wants followers is always more or less of a charlatan. The man of genuine worth and insight wants to be himself; and he wants others to be themselves, also.