Quotes By Elbert Hubbard

There is no failure except in no longer trying.

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.

It does not take much strength to do things, but it requires great strength to decide on what to do.

I would rather be able to appreciate things I can not have than to have things I am not able to appreciate.

We work to become, not to acquire.

Pray that success will not come any faster than you are able to endure it.

The only foes that threaten America are the enemies at home, and these are ignorance, superstition and incompetence.

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

It is easy to get everything you want, provided you first learn to do without the things you cannot get.

Where much is expected from an individual, he may rise to the level of events and make the dream come true.

This will never be a civilized country until we spend more money for books than we do for chewing gum.

It may happen sometimes that a long debate becomes the cause of a longer friendship. Commonly, those who dispute with one another at last agree.

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.

A pessimist? That's a person who has been intimately acquainted with an optimist.

If pleasures are greatest in anticipation, just remember that this is also true of trouble.

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.

Often we can help each other most by leaving each other alone; at other times we need the hand-grasp and the word of cheer.

The highest reward that God gives us for good work is the ability to do better work.

There is something that is much more scarce, something finer far, something rarer than ability. It is the ability to recognize ability.

The final proof of greatness lies in being able to endure criticism without resentment.

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.

A friend is one who knows you and loves you just the same.

Love, we say, is life; but love without hope and faith is agonizing death.

Responsibility is the price of freedom.

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

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

Little minds are interested in the extraordinary; great minds in the commonplace.

Every tyrant who has lived has believed in freedom for himself.

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

Fear is the thought of admitted inferiority.