Quotes By Elbert Hubbard

We awaken in others the same attitude of mind we hold toward them.

We are punished by our sins, not for them.

So long as governments set the example of killing their enemies, private individuals will occasionally kill theirs.

A woman will doubt everything you say except it be compliments to herself.

We are not punished for our sins, but by them.

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

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

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

Fear clogs; faith liberates.

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

The reason men oppose progress is not that they hate progress, but that they love inertia.

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.

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

There is no failure except in no longer trying.

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.

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.

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

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

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.

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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.