Quotes By Elbert Hubbard

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.

He has achieved success who has worked well, laughed often, and loved much.

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

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

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

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.

Character is the result of two things: mental attitude and the way we spend our time.

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

The church saves sinners, but science seeks to stop their manufacture.

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

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

Responsibility is the price of freedom.

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

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

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

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

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

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

The supernatural is the natural not yet understood.

Do your work with your whole heart, and you will succeed - there's so little competition.

Fear is the thought of admitted inferiority.

Positive anything is better than negative nothing.

The object of teaching a child is to enable him to get along without his teacher.

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