Quotes By Elbert Hubbard

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

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

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.

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.

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

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

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.

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

Responsibility is the price of freedom.

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

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

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.

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

The supernatural is the natural not yet understood.

Men are only as great as they are kind.

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.

The teacher is the one who gets the most out of the lessons, and the true teacher is the learner.

Friendship, like credit, is highest when it is not used.

Die, v.: To stop sinning suddenly.

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

Polygamy: An endeavour to get more out of life than there is in it.

Art is the beautiful way of doing things. Science is the effective way of doing things. Business is the economic way of doing things.

A retentive memory may be a good thing, but the ability to forget is the true token of greatness.