Best Quotes by Elbert Hubbard (Top 10)
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A friend is one who knows you and loves you just the same.
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God will not look you over for medals degrees or diplomas, but for scars.
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To avoid criticism, do nothing, say nothing, and be nothing.
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Every man is a damn fool for at least five minutes every day; wisdom consists in not exceeding the limit.
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Do not take life too seriously. You will never get out of it alive.
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He who does not understand your silence will probably not understand your words.
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Never explain - your friends do not need it and your enemies will not believe you anyway.
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The greatest mistake you can make in life is continually fearing that you'll make one.
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There is no failure except the failure of trying.
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It does not take much strength to do things, but it requires great strength to decide on what to do.
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The object of teaching a child is to enable him to get along without his teacher.
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The love we give away is the only love we keep.
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If men could only know each other, they would neither idolize nor hate.
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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.
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The best way to prepare for life is to begin to live.
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The best preparation for good work tomorrow is to do good work today.
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If you work for a man, in heaven's name work for him, speak well of him, and stand by the institution he represents. Remember, an ounce of loyalty is worth a pound of cleverness. If you must growl, condemn, and eternally find fault - resign your position, and when you are outside, damn to your heart's content - but as long as you are part of the institution, do not condemn it. If you do, the first high wind that comes along will blow you away, and probably you will never know why.
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I would rather be able to appreciate things I can not have than to have things I am not able to appreciate.
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Happiness is a habitâcultivate it.
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Genius may have its limitations, but stupidity is not thus handicapped.
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The final proof of greatness lies in being able to endure criticism without resentment.
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Art is not a thing; it is a way.
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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.
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No man needs a vacation so much as the man who has just had one.
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One machine can do the work of fifty ordinary men. No machine can do the work of one extraordinary man.
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This will never be a civilized country until we spend more money for books than we do for chewing gum.
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Positive anything is better than negative nothing.
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Folks who never do any more than they get paid for, never get paid for any more than they do
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Where parents do too much for their children, the children will not do much for themselves.
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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 the goal.
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The cheerful loser is the winner.
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A little more persistence, a little more effort, and what seemed hopeless failure may turn to glorious success.
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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.
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The recipe for perpetual ignorance is: Be satisfied with your opinions and content with your knowledge.
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Secrets are things we give to others to keep for us.
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Optimism is a kind of heart stimulant - the digitalis of failure.
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Character is the result of two things: mental attitude and the way we spend our time.
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Everything comes too late for those who only wait.
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The man who is anybody and who does anything is surely going to be criticized, vilified, and misunderstood. This is a part of the penalty for greatness, and every great man understands it; and understands, too, that it is no proof of greatness. The final proof of greatness lies in being able to endure contumely without resentment.
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We awaken in others the same attitude of mind we hold toward them.
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Responsibility is the price of freedom.
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A retentive memory may be a good thing, but the ability to forget is the true token of greatness.
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No one ever gets far unless he accomplishes the impossible at least once a day.
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Many a man's reputation would not know his character if they met on the street.
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If you can't answer a man's arguments, all is not lost; you can still call him vile names.
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Rivalry is the life of trade, and the death of the trader.
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Life is just one damned thing after another.
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A failure is a man who has blundered, but is not able to cash in the experience.
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Men are not punished for their sins, but by them.
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Your neighbor is the man who needs you.
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The happiness of this life depends less on what befalls you than the way in which you take it.
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Dignity is a mask we wear to hide our ignorance.
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Lovers are fools, but Nature makes them so.
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Punishment - The justice that the guilty deal out to those that are caught.
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There was one who thought himself above me, and he was above me until he had that thought.
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Every man should have a college education in order to show him how little the thing is really worth.
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Every quarrel begins in nothing and ends in a struggle for supremacy.
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If you suffer, thank God! It is a sure sign that you are alive.
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If you want work well done, select a busy man - the other kind has no time.
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Die, v.: To stop sinning suddenly.
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The teacher is one who makes two ideas grow where only one grew before.
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The only foes that threaten America are the enemies at home, and these are ignorance, superstition and incompetence.
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When a man sends you an impudent letter, sit right down and give it back to him with interest ten times compounded, and then throw both letters in the wastebasket.
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The friend is the man who knows all about you, and still likes you.
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One can endure sorrow alone, but it takes two to be glad.
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Pray that success will not come any faster than you are able to endure it.
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A pessimist is a man who has been compelled to live with an optimist.
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Little minds are interested in the extraordinary; great minds in the commonplace.
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Genius is the ability to act rightly without precedent - the power to do the right thing the first time.
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The highest reward that God gives us for good work is the ability to do better work.
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Where much is expected from an individual, he may rise to the level of events and make the dream come true.
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All noise is waste. So cultivate quietness in your speech, in your thoughts, in your emotions. Speak habitually low. Wait for attention and then you low words will be charged with dynamite.
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We are punished by our sins, not for them.
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Religions are many and diverse, but reason and goodness are one.
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A committee is a thing which takes a week to do what one good man can do in an hour.
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Art is the beautiful way of doing things. Science is the effective way of doing things. Business is the economic way of doing things.
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You can lead a boy to college, but you cannot make him think.
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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.
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It is the weak man who urges compromise - never the strong man.
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There is something that is much more scarce, something finer far, something rarer than ability. It is the ability to recognize ability.
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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.
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Luck is tenacity of purpose.
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Victory; a matter of staying power.
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Forbid a man to think for himself or to act for himself and you may add the joy of piracy and the zest of smuggling to his life.
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Fear clogs; faith liberates.
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The idea that is not dangerous is not worthy of being called an idea at all.
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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.
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We find what we expect to find, and we receive what we ask for.
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As we grow better, we meet better people.
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If pleasures are greatest in anticipation, just remember that this is also true of trouble.
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Men are only as great as they are kind.
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The cure for grief is motion.
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So long as governments set the example of killing their enemies, private individuals will occasionally kill theirs.
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In these days, a man who says a thing cannot be done is quite apt to be interrupted by some idiot doing it.
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Get happiness out of your work or you may never know what happiness is.
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The difference in men does not lie in the size of their hands, nor in the perfection of their bodies, but in this one sublime ability of concentration: to throw the weight in one blow, to live eternity in an hour.
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He who influences the thought of his times influences the times that follow.
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We work to become, not to acquire.
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Friendship, like credit, is highest when it is not used.
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A man is not paid for having a head and hands, but for using them.
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Enthusiasm is the great hill-climber.
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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.
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Miracle: An event described by those to whom it was told by men who did not see it.
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A poor man who eats too much, as contradistinguished from a gourmand, who is a rich man who ''lives well.''
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Writers seldom write the things they think. They simply write the things they think other folks think they think.
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The greatest mistake a person can make is to be afraid of making one.
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Don't make excuses, make good.
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Those who do unlawful acts are no more sinners in the eyes of God than we who think them.
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Charity: a thing that begins at home, and usually stays there.
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The path of civilization is paved with tin cans.
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Every spirit makes its house, but as after wards the house confines the spirit, you had better build well.
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Some men succeed by what they know; some by what they do; and a few by what they are.
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The thing we fear we bring to pass.
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We never ask God to forgive anybody except when we haven't.
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The artist needs no religion beyond his work.
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Laws that do not embody public opinion can never be enforced.
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Government is a kind of legalized pillage.
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Play needs direction as well as work.
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Life in abundance comes only through great love.
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Make two grins grow where there was only a grouch before.
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Men are rich only as they give. He who gives great service gets great rewards.
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Cultivate only the habits that you are willing should master you
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Down in their hearts, wise men know this truth: the only way to help yourself is to help others.
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Live truth instead of professing it.
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The reason men oppose progress is not that they hate progress, but that they love inertia.
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Fear is the thought of admitted inferiority.
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The secret of salvation is this: keep sweet, be useful, and keep busy.
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The ineffable joy of forgiving and being forgiven forms an ecstasy that might well arouse the envy of the gods.
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Be pleasant until ten o'clock in the morning and the rest of the day will take care of itself.
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It is a fine thing to have ability, but the ability to discover ability in others is the true test.
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A conservative is a man who is too cowardly to fight and too fat to run.
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